This is a great looking film. Easily its the best looking of the three computer generated live action films so far released (The others being The Immortel and Sky Captain). However this film is missing a viable script to make you want to look at the visuals.
The plot has something to do with an army of reborn supermen being battled, occasionally, by a reborn soldier who eventually takes the name Casshern. There is more to the plot but considering how little of it actually made sense I figure I'll keep to the basics.
The action sequences, the few that there are, are absolutely mind bogglingly great. They are the reason that movies exist, taking you some where and showing you something that can only be seen with magic. I love them and the reflect perfectly how comics and animation can be done as live action.
But they are few and far between and there is a good deal of great looking sequences that contain a lot of nonsensical chatter or silence. The plot that they are suppose to be driving could have been workable in different hands and at a reasonable length, but this movie runs almost two and a half hours and is sure to induce a coma in anyone but visual artists.
If you want to see great visuals, see this film, if you want to see a great story look elsewhere.
6 out of 10 (purely because of the visuals)
The plot has something to do with an army of reborn supermen being battled, occasionally, by a reborn soldier who eventually takes the name Casshern. There is more to the plot but considering how little of it actually made sense I figure I'll keep to the basics.
The action sequences, the few that there are, are absolutely mind bogglingly great. They are the reason that movies exist, taking you some where and showing you something that can only be seen with magic. I love them and the reflect perfectly how comics and animation can be done as live action.
But they are few and far between and there is a good deal of great looking sequences that contain a lot of nonsensical chatter or silence. The plot that they are suppose to be driving could have been workable in different hands and at a reasonable length, but this movie runs almost two and a half hours and is sure to induce a coma in anyone but visual artists.
If you want to see great visuals, see this film, if you want to see a great story look elsewhere.
6 out of 10 (purely because of the visuals)