Like most cyberpunk, this film has a stellar premise. However, also in the tradition of cyberpunk, its storytelling and presentation is as murky as its production design.

...suffers from an unpleasant and relentlessly distracting animation style that ultimately renders its few positive attributes moot.

There are no grey shadings in the film's visual palette to match the characters' more equivocal moralities, and the result is a dark, dark world occasionally exposed to the most harsh and unforgiving of lights.

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The movie radiates a dark, eerie, mysterious, otherworldly quality, yet it isn't enough to sustain over an hour and an half of story.

Renaissance is a victory of style over substance and technology over art, but to score a real win, the filmmakers need to strike a better balance between the two.

The style doesn't just overwhelm the substance, it makes it irrelevant.

Lacks a beating heart at its core. It's all about its technical aspects and sense of cool, and that's just not good enough.

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While the story is not compelling, the style of the film is amazing.