Appleseed (2004)

Appleseed is a CGI-live action movie based on the manga by Masamune Shirow.

Set in the future, the world has been devastated by World War III. The remaining governments of the earth have pulled together and constructed cities enclosed from the outside wastelands. Rescue forces from Olympus make regular trips to the outside wastelands to try to recover the remaining humans that are still alive. Deunan Nat is one of those individuals, a feisty sexy blond female soldier. After she is rescued, and brought back to Olympus, she discovers that her ex-parter Briareous (once thought dead), was rescued himself half dead, and rebuilt as a cyborg. Through her introduction to Olmpian society, she discovers that most of the citie's population are bio-droids (look exactly like humans) but are created to operate in Olmpus as shiny happy people from birth.

The origional anime was released in 1988, is cel animated, and in terms of story and artwork (CGI may look more wow and eye candy than cel, but I always prefer cel over CGI animation) is wayy better than this.

The story and character development was so bland and robotic that I missed whatever plot existed, but this Japanese CGI sci-fi plays out exactly like a mediocre Hollywood movie. The character development is so thin and robotic that all the characters could have been clones of the same person. In the end I watch movies this bland to the end just so I can rip on it.

This was released at the Japanese box office in 2004, and made around $350,000 before it bombed to DVD bargin bins, figures. Fight Club bombed at the box office, but went onto be one of the most popular cult films of the 90s.

My rating: 3.9/10