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Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: While visually arresting, Appleseed's narrative and dialogue pondering existentialism is ponderous, awkward, and clumsy.
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It's an exceedingly brilliant combination of future shock set-up and old school moralizing, a deconstruction of what it means to be human rendered in tech tones so slick that you often forget you're watching a cartoon.
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the viewer who abstracts away from the more adolescent elements of plot will find that Appleseed has plenty of ideas at its core to keep the mind stimulated.
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.
Shinji Aramaki’s anime action-adventure is outstanding in technical if not narrative terms.
It's busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot.
It’s an impressive effort, packed with ideas and good action scenes, but still trots out a clichéd plot about a super-soldier babe, a race of meek artificial people, giant robot suits, confusing conspiracies and a lot of explosions.
There is plenty to admire from a technical and artistic standpoint.
With all that gorgeous imagery, you'd think the filmmakers would have found a way to tell the story visually without using mountains of expositional dialogue.
Newbie viewers will be left twiddling their thumbs while waiting for Deunen's next bout of butt-kicking action sequences.
The filmmakers are too busy trying to justify their futuristic world, and not enough actually exploring it.
With so much going on in every frame, Appleseed is one of those anime projects that shouts you to sleep.
There's a little too much talking and not as many battle scenes as we would've liked, but Appleseed is still a decent pick.
Unfortunately, the story is painfully recycled, heavily indebted to Blade Runner (1982), along with healthy dollops of Beauty and the Beast, Isaac Asimov's robot stories and the mythological echoes.
Yes, it looks good, but it doesn't come close to exploring the grand themes it has in mind, or to ascending anywhere near the landmarks of anime.
A cross-pollination of eye-popping combat and provocative ideas.
Top CriticThe action scenes might grab you, but there's a lot of talky downtime.
Though Appleseed has its selling points, it's not an especially strong entry in the genre, despite the presence of so many pneumatic heroines.
This long-overdue big-screen adaptation makes it hard to tell what was so revolutionary about the series.
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