A farm kid gets a dying message on his wrist and suddenly the entire galactic empire wants him dead. The Lensman opens like Star Wars but moves like a heist film, all momentum and visual spectacle with no time for you to ask questions. Kawajiri's direction and Ohira's animation pull you through a script that doesn't quite land its emotional moments, you're moving too fast to care.
Kim lives a peaceful life farming alongside his father until a runaway spaceship comes hurtling toward the family farm. To save his father, Kim leaps aboard and brings the vessel down safely before it can crash. Inside he finds a single badly wounded survivor who, as he dies, pleads with Kim to deliver something to the Galactic Fleet. The man passes the object on his arm to Kim's arm: a Lens, whose transfer should not have been possible and which makes Kim a Lensman. Along with powers Kim does not yet understand, the Lens carries information key to the Galactic Fleet's victory over the evil Boskone Empire. Aboard the spaceship Britannia, Kim sets out to bring the Lens to the Fleet, while Lord Helmet of the Boskone Empire will stop at nothing to halt him. Loosely based on E.E. "Doc" Smith's science fiction series, this 1984 film mixes action, adventure and space opera.
