Apr 22, 2008
As far as I know, this shouldn’t be named Appleseed...
There is no real story; the 15 first minutes are there for nothing. You can even guess all major events 20 mins before watching the scene.
The art is what make cry the most. What happened of the winning cell-shading system? Every character are now made with regular 3d frame with almost no expression except their eyebrow… Some of the character changed so much from the 1rst movie.
For example, who would have told who was Hitomi in the movie if no one told it? And for Nike??? Where the hell is the sexy secretary Nike? I
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was sure she was one of the bad guys before Athena called her by her name.
As for the sounds, it’s not bad at all. I’m not picky for that as long as you don’t play country music (no offence) in a mecha fight.
I think that they screwed up the characters. As far as I can tell Hitomi is supposed to be a pacifist but she is not that defenseless in this movie. We can also see our dear Deunan “dressed” for a party. I looked on the web without any answer on which style they took that suit but damn! It really doesn’t fit for a futuristic world (2133 A.D.) where everything is pretty.
As for my comments, I think this is one of the worst works from Shirow Masamune books and I can’t even understand why John Woo was the one who produced that. All these bad parts made me loss any interest for the movie after an hour. BUT, IT IS NOT A BAD MOVIE. Just don’t expect a true sequel to the first Appleseed or try not to look for similarities.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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