The film has enough originality to interest demanding fans of the genre.
Appleseed(アップルシード)
Japan · 2004
Rated R · 1h 41m
Director Shinji Aramaki
Starring Ai Kobayashi, Asumi Miwa, Jurota Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka
Genre Animation, Action, Science Fiction
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In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
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Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
The characters are (hand-painted) so flat that the film looks like a paper-doll convention at Epcot.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
While there are some genuinely dazzling moments of visual bravura, the marriage of flatness and depth that Mr. Aramaki attempts doesn't quite work.
The film's snazzy new automated animation style falls short: The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands.
Much of the movie is dull, and as it has been dubbed into English, the blah-blah is impossible to ignore.
The stock characters and leaden stretches of expository dialogue are welcome evidence that there's still no computer program capable of telling a decent story.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Dazzling visually but is flattened by corny dialogue better suited to the 1936 "Flash Gordon" serial, a needlessly hard to follow plot and heavy-handed exposition clotted with pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
At this point, there's something almost masochistic about the way animators in Japan use cheesy ''Westernized'' heroes to fuel their fantasies.
The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson
Its busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot. A simple Shirow pinup parade might almost be preferable.
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