Renaissance

In an attempt to create animated film noir, several styles of animation (including cgi) are used monocromatically to create a highly stylised vision. Great visually

was cool just for the style. everything else kind of sucked. story was dry. action was weak and not paced well. also i fell asleep during this.

Took me several sittings to make it through, and it really wasn't worth the effort. The plot is a tedious cliché wrapped up in a unique visual style. Or more accurately, a jarring hard-to-watch, headache-inducing visual style that plainly doesn't work. The harsh black-and-white with no shades of gray to soften things makes large parts of the film an indistinguishable mess, while the constant retina-burning contrast made my eyes hurt more than the very worst 3D movie. Bad story, bad concept.

Due to the style, I had a terrible time telling characters apart, and the story really didn't grab me. Since they bothered to make this black and white, they could have made the visuals a lot more interesting.

More of an interesting film than a particularly successful one: this does use its rotoscope animation creatively, setting a moody, noirish tone, but its plot is too often baffling and the design (and nature) of its world is a too-close rip off of Spielberg's MINORITY REPORT. A good cast sometimes struggles with the hefty dialogue; Craig's "dry-run" for 007 finds him lacking somewhat in charisma. Worth seeing as a technical landmark.

didn't even want to watch it because of the black and white animation

Stylish cyberpunk noir.

Towards the end, when you know what it is happening arrives the comedown. But the overall it is OK.

wow it must be my weekend of boring movies, i need to spice things up because after this and robocop prime directives i feel like taking a nap. This movie was boring as hell, i didnt care about the plot because i could hardlt keep my eyes open. There is one scene of action near the begining that gave me high hopes but i lost all hope not soon after....

Cool, lots of loose ends though

The animation is interesting, but has kind of an uncanny-valley vibe to it too. That's probably the best reason to see it, but I'd also wager that it isn't going to age well. The story is pretty hard to follow, and most of the acting is pretty bad. It's not a movie you can just have playing in the background, but that doesn't mean it's especially substantial either.

6- pretty good, decent

Some of the most intense cinematic visuals I've ever seen in a movie before. This movie should have been, like the title suggests, a Renaissance for cinema, especially animation. If only they could've written a better plot to it.

Quite amazing visually with a fascinating sci-fi setting and story.

Although the story and characters are not original, the animation and overall cinematography is both innovative and outstanding, and should not be missed. There is truly something unique in the look here that you just won't find anywhere else. The voice and motion acting are more than passable and Nicholas Dodd's score provides a wonderful combination of a 007 espionage flick with the haunting eeriness of the score from Stargate.

Didn't know much about this going in. Okay, I knew nothing except that Daniel Craig's voice was in it. Now that's a man crush.

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Interesting movie with some unusual things. First is this art concept by Hélène Giraud, which is no less than stunning. It makes good dark ambient and it looks really sharp. But there are several scenes that are too cartoon-like e.g. car pursuit, some mouth mimics does not go along with speech and after 1h it becomes quite frustrating. Idea is good where the plot could have been better. This art technic has potential if used in right amount.

very good black-whithe animation

Visually remarkable, but I remember coming away disappointed.

I have seen it, but the impression was well there was no impression. In fact, I think I got so bored I passed out. It looked cool and had momentum and grit and probably deserves another watch. Until then I will stick by what my gut tells me. It is worth seeing due to it being a different take on animation. Other than that a complete yawnfest. I may feel differently after watching it again, but until then it is what it is. If it smells like poop and looks like poop most likely its......

Good futuristic cops and bad guys story, very different visuals.

Great animation and good story but unfortunately it doesn't start getting good until about the 2nd half. Though the slow start hurts it, it is ultimately very worth watching.

An interesting concept, both plot and filming style. There just didn't seem to be quite enough to push it into greatness. I'd recommend watching it once just for the experience.

although the animation has great potential, the plot drags it down to pretty "blah". i have to admit that the animation is almost a better example of noir-style camera action than the movies that are responsible for the term itself.

when being saved means saved from yourself

Visually interesting but featuring an amazingly dumb and predictable plot filled with every bad cliche ever.

The DVD case describes it as Blade Runner meets Sin City, and this is not entirely inaccurate -- although I would hasten to add that it's not quite as good as either. Still, a solid film.

Some nice visuals, but not much else.

Average sci-fi/noir story, but amazing visuals.

good enough

Great animation and cyper-punk/film noir style but the story just didn't grab me at all. I just didn't find it any more insightful than an average anime (and I don't find anime entertaining for the most part). See this for the animation.