Spriggan (1998)

The thesis is so incoherent… being a child soldier is badass unless you're a military experiment, then it's tragic. The protagonist furiously seeks revenge for his dead friend, but there's no sign he cared about the guy. There's a bunch of weird spectacle, but emotionally it's all “tell, don't show”. Meanwhile, the mixing's full of bad attempts at spatial audio. At least the animation's great! It's weighty and punchy. On the other hand, they show Noah's Ark midway through, but you wouldn't know because it's all muddy background details. The sprawling, irrational dig site around the Ark is more awe-inspiring. Finally, the villain's motive sounds novel—fuck the USA!, fix climate change!, make world peace!—but devolves into a default god complex.