Appleseed: Alpha

2014 • 93 minutu

Film honi buruz

From the creator of Ghost in the Shell and the director of Appleseed comes the intense post-apocalyptic prequel, Appleseed: Alpha. Left to survive in a post-World War society, two mercenary soldiers - Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos -- are sent on a mission on the outskirts of their war-torn city. During the operation, they run into Iris and Olsen, two citizens from the utopian city of Olympus, who might have a way to save the world but the ruthless Talos and the scheming warlord Two Horns have their own plans. It's up to Deunan and Briareos to safeguard their newfound contacts and help save humanity's last hope.

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Appleseed was my absolute favorite manga during the time it was being released in the US. I never missed an issue. This movie is fantastic. It really takes me back and captures the mood of the early issues of the books. I am really pleased at the work that the production crew and actors put into this movie. I would really like to see more efforts like this become available. Highly recommend to anyone who used to wait with baited breath for the next appleseed book to arrive in your comic box. The story is different than I imagined things had been but I am ok with the way they decided to go here. I think Masamune Shirow should be proud of this one. Its bad to the bone and fun the whole way through.

The various attempts to anime-ize Appleseed over the years have largely resulted in a collection of disappointing misfires. Which is surprising because the Appleseed series (talking Masamune Shirow in the 80s here) is some of the most brilliant manga ever to leave Japan. While Shirow's other effort--Ghost in the Shell--has managed to keep itself interesting and engaging over the course of the last 20 years or so, the same cannot be said for the Appleseed franchise, such as it is. So then, what to call this latest installment? Boring? Check. Wooden and cliche characters? Check. Rehashed plot elements lumbering predictably through each attempt at a reboot? Check. Those city-sized mobile weapons platforms--destroyed anew every few years--have come to epitomize the lumbering single-mindedness serving us the warmed-over mediocrity that is all this series has left to offer. Do yourself a favor and skip this one.

Awesome voice acting and CGI, it is a reboot and a prequel to the last two movies. It is closer to the spirit of the Manga and deals with the main characters time in the American wastes and what they did to survive. It flashes out the characters to actually understand their motives.