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Renaissance attempts to blend sci-fi wonder with stark noir animation, but is often more fun to look at than to watch.
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It's a testament to the production design that one quickly gets caught up in the story without ever completely losing the "ooh-ahh" factor. Ominous, wall-to-wall music bolsters the appropriately uneasy mood, and the bittersweet conclusion is satisfying. Jul 22, 2008
It's a testament to the production design that one quickly gets caught up in the story without ever completely losing the "ooh-ahh" factor. Ominous, wall-to-wall music bolsters the appropriately uneasy mood, and the bittersweet conclusion is satisfying.
Lisa Nesselson
For its retro-futurist look alone, this outdated thriller set in 2054 Paris is worth seeing. Nov 3, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
For its retro-futurist look alone, this outdated thriller set in 2054 Paris is worth seeing.
Bill Stamets
Its dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing. Oct 12, 2006 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Its dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing.
Bob Townsend
An empty experience; lots of shadow and noise, adding up to very little. Oct 6, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
An empty experience; lots of shadow and noise, adding up to very little.
Moira MacDonald
It's unfortunate that it's all in the service of a story as dull as it is complicated, though if you can make it to the end without drifting off, there is a small reward. Oct 6, 2006 | Rating: 2/4
It's unfortunate that it's all in the service of a story as dull as it is complicated, though if you can make it to the end without drifting off, there is a small reward.
Terry Lawson
Undone by a plot that is ridiculously hard to follow and hackneyed. Sep 29, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Undone by a plot that is ridiculously hard to follow and hackneyed.
Ruthe Stein
Ultimately saved by the strong performances, taut atmosphere, and awe inspiring animation... Apr 25, 2014 | Full Review…
Ultimately saved by the strong performances, taut atmosphere, and awe inspiring animation...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
The picture is visually stark - at times imagining Fritz Lang had directed The Matrix - and isolated compositions, spiked with high contrast menace, are impressive in their artistic detail. However, the perfunctory plot is B-grade sci-fi. Nov 7, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
The picture is visually stark - at times imagining Fritz Lang had directed The Matrix - and isolated compositions, spiked with high contrast menace, are impressive in their artistic detail. However, the perfunctory plot is B-grade sci-fi.
Luke Goodsell
The script's fusion of B-movie crime cliches and dystopian futurism, if not exactly original, is nonetheless vigorously engaging, and the English-language voice cast is good enough to make the existential noodling seem like real dialogue. Jul 27, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The script's fusion of B-movie crime cliches and dystopian futurism, if not exactly original, is nonetheless vigorously engaging, and the English-language voice cast is good enough to make the existential noodling seem like real dialogue.
Maitland McDonagh
Visually impressive sci-fi noir Jul 11, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Visually impressive sci-fi noir
Emanuel Levy
The visuals of Christian Volckman's film blow away just about everything else on the screen this year. Apr 23, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The visuals of Christian Volckman's film blow away just about everything else on the screen this year.
Peter Keough
It is more Sin City (the graphic novel) than Sin City (the movie)! Or at least on a purely visual level . . . Nov 25, 2008 | Full Review…
It is more Sin City (the graphic novel) than Sin City (the movie)! Or at least on a purely visual level . . .
James O'Ehley
Beautiful, stark images and a wondrous score do a lot to sell this French made sci-fi/detective hybrid (ala Blade Runner) that's unfortunately undercut by a script that's too standard film noir. The medium is stunning ... if only they'd concentrated a bit more on the story ...
Super Reviewer
An interesting script but the high contrast black & white animation is distracting and tiresome. Slightly above average graphic novel-ish sci-fi crime noir.
A graphic novel in movie form that works really quite well in providing a cool, dark, film noir atmosphere. It helps having the new James Bond to provide the lead voice too. The sci-fi story is a fairly good one and quite appropriate to the style of the movie. However, the plot can drag a bit at times.
The animation style may seem original as a film but it pretty much resembles the computer game XIII as well as the last Spider-Man animated series. Though the thick blacks and pure whites add a lot of style and atmosphere in some scenes it becomes hard to differentiate backgrounds from foregrounds. The story itself is quite interesting as mysteries go but is also reminiscent of just about any future mystery set-up where an evil corporation is out for something. The vocal talents are spot on for the majority of the film and the ending is excellent and shouldn't have ended any other way. It results in an overall satisfying film.
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