Appleseed
Time Out says
After
battling through the aftermath of a ruinous global war, female supersoldier
Deunan is introduced to Olympus, a utopian city shared by people and
genetically engineered ‘bioroids’, who lack extreme emotion and reproductive
function. When the human-led military turns against this ‘upstart’ species, the
consequences could be calamitous… Set in a now-familiar post-apocalyptic
universe of robo-rubble, sparkling citadels and supercomputers wired up to
wrinkly old sages, Shinji Aramaki’s anime action-adventure is outstanding in
technical if not narrative terms. Opening with the kind of fight scene you can
expect on your home console in a few generations’ time, it offers astonishingly
rendered cityscapes and car chases and naturalistic organic movements – though
the actual character design tends towards the large-eyed schoolgirl type. Which
isn’t to say the women are weak: in fact they dominate, with the enemy
identified by the attributes of maleness, anger and militarism. The story
remains inane, though, crow-barring great wodges of indigestible exposition
between scenes of various kinds of hypertechnology pummelling seven shades of
shit out of each other.
Details
Release details
Rated:
12A
Release date:
Friday August 19 2005
Duration:
103 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Shinji Aramaki
Screenwriter:
Haruka Handa, Tsutomu Kamishiro