Movie Reviews for Appleseed Ex Machina (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

Appleseed Ex Machina (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

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Movie Reviews of Appleseed Ex Machina (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

Movie Review: Exmachina Greatness!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I really loved the storyline and graphics. I'm not going to spoil the movie for you but if you loved the first Appleseed then you will love ExMachina.

Movie Review: Appleseed Rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars

This DVD is a sequel to the movie released in 2004 [Appleseed (Widescreen) (2004)] not a remake. This is a "must see" not just for Appleseed fans but for all fans of Japanese Anime. The bonus features are entertaining and informative. Add to cart, you won't regret it. (AliasQTip is a real person, not a paid celebrity.) :D

Movie Review: awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars

it amuses me that there's always a handful of people who can give a 1 star rating for just about anything. if you wanted to watch shakespeare in the park then you're to blame - not the people who created this awesome work. the animation is incredible, the action scenes are fantastic, the repeat viewability is very high. if you're looking for serious brain stimulation, do sudoku. if you want to enjoy a fun animated film - this is 5 stars for sure.

Movie Review: John Woo's greasy fingerprints all over
Summary: 2 Stars

Appleseed the original movie (from the early 90's) was great. Appleseed the CG update from a few years back was also great. This sequel is awful. The creative hand-off from Shirow Masamune to John Woo could not have been worse. Woo, you'll remember, gave us such heartwarming tales as "Face/Off" and "Mission Impossible 2". His signature idiom is that violence is *beautiful*. In CGI, that becomes an even MORE flawed premise than it is for live-action film because the constraints imposed by physics are removed. Most directors of anime are content to continue modeling such normal forces as, say, gravity or anatomy. But that apparently gets in the way of Woo's violence-porn story. In the future as envisioned by Woo, EVERY man is a muscle-bound spartan god, EVERY woman is a gorgeous D-cup. Woo is also in love with Matrix-style slow-motion spinarounds, his theory being that if a little of it is good, then gobs'n'gobs of it is better. The film speed slows down so often so we can watch superhuman gymnastics or visible bullet-trails that I wanted to ask the movie if I should get out and push.

Visual problems aside, the story is nothing to write home about. There's some vague use of the idea of human/cyborg tension and the awkwardness of meeting your own clone, but it goes nowhere and is dumped in favor of a villain whose "I'll-rule-the-world!" monologues make Doctor Evil look nuanced and believable. At one point, the villain's lieutenant commits suicide and I ran the DVD back three or four scenes because I couldn't figure out why. But I still couldn't figure it out and I'm pretty convinced that either there's simply no reason for it or else they accidentally edited out whatever reason there was supposed to be for it. Even the hero's dialog jangles like a handful of loose change.

I never thought I'd watch anime that I enjoyed so little as this film.