Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 22, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: In the near future in a Paris, France, made of Plexiglas, aerodynamic steel beams, and rainslicked surfaces, a sinister plot unfolds: it's one honest cop (voiced by Daniel Craig) against an evil corporatocracy, corrupt scientists, and the mob, as he uses his wits and grit to rescue a... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Catherine McCormack, Romola Garai, Ian Holm
With this extraordinary film, director Christian Volckman wanted to "bring together the cinematographic obsessions of the silent era %u2026 all welded onto a sci fi thriller tale and produced using motion capture %u2013 and you have one eye popping, evo
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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.
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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A pic of true craftsmanship that dazzles until it wears out its welcome and becomes a drag.
For its retro-futurist look alone, this outdated thriller set in 2054 Paris is worth seeing.
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If someone rips a page out of Sin City, Blade Runner, V for Vendetta and every other futuristic degradation of politics and corporations and no one is around to hear it, what is there to listen to?
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If you have the time and densely plotted potboilers are your thing, it's worth the trip.
Its dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing.
It's the novel side that fails, a convoluted, futuristic detective thriller.
An empty experience; lots of shadow and noise, adding up to very little.
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