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Appleseed

Play trailer Poster for Appleseed R Released Mar 5, 2004 1h 45m Fantasy Action Sci-Fi Anime Play Trailer Watchlist
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Deunan Knute (Ai Kobayashi) is a female warrior who survives the Global War. When she meets her old love, Briareos Hecatonchires (Jûrôta Kosugi), she finds that he has become a cyborg due to his injuries from the war. Deunan soon learns that a new race of cyborgs called Bioroids have been created in the peaceful city of Olympus. However, Deunan also discovers that something is sabotaging the Bioroids, causing their lives to be very short, so she dedicates herself to finding out the cause.
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While visually arresting, Appleseed's narrative and dialogue pondering existentialism is ponderous, awkward, and clumsy.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader The stock characters and leaden stretches of expository dialogue are welcome evidence that there's still no computer program capable of telling a decent story. Apr 25, 2007 Full Review Maitland McDonagh Time Out Shut your brain down for optimal viewing pleasure. Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Tasha Robinson AV Club It's busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot. Sep 26, 2005 Full Review Bill Gibron DVDTalk.com It's an exceedingly brilliant combination of future shock set-up and old school moralizing, a deconstruction of what it means to be human rendered in tech tones so slick that you often forget you're watching a cartoon. Rated: 4.5/5 Sep 26, 2009 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed I really wish I could have liked this more. Rated: 2/4 Apr 29, 2009 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid With all that gorgeous imagery, you'd think the filmmakers would have found a way to tell the story visually without using mountains of expositional dialogue. Rated: 1/4 Feb 1, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Greg B One absolutely unforgiveable choice by the writers was turning Deunan Knute, a confident survivor and partner to Briareos into a conflicted mommas girl! It was as though the writers never even read the Manga? See Nintendos take on Samus Aran for a similar screwup! This movie is barely watcheable but the soundtrack is good. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Liam D It’s animation is beautiful but the story, voice acting and story are very unoriginal Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/03/24 Full Review robert p I wish I could give this movie a higher score than *2* stars, but truth be told I had problems understand what was said or written, thus my *2* star rating!! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Sadly this succumbs to the constants problems with anime sci fi, exposition is managed in the worst possible way, they think that they are doing a complex worldbuiling narrative with twist after twist when they are just making the pacing unsuferable and convoluted. This cell shaded art style is way more unique and interesting than the one used in the sequels. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Definitely better than "Alpha", and certainly having some great aspects, but there are a number of detractors inhibiting me from giving it a higher score. Check out my full review at https://geekyngodly.blogspot.com/2020/04/appleseed-2004-was-it-better.html Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Really a good plot including bioroid, cyborg and human combined utopian society.Fascinating story, graphics , marvellous action sequence made the movie quite enjoyable. Moral message is also very interesting.Quite impressive. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Deunan Knute (Ai Kobayashi) is a female warrior who survives the Global War. When she meets her old love, Briareos Hecatonchires (Jûrôta Kosugi), she finds that he has become a cyborg due to his injuries from the war. Deunan soon learns that a new race of cyborgs called Bioroids have been created in the peaceful city of Olympus. However, Deunan also discovers that something is sabotaging the Bioroids, causing their lives to be very short, so she dedicates herself to finding out the cause.
Director
Shinji Aramaki
Screenwriter
Haruka Handa, Tsutomu Kamishiro
Production Co
Geneon Universal Entertainment, Digital Frontier, Anime Network
Rating
R (Some Violence)
Genre
Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi, Anime
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 5, 2004, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Jan 14, 2005
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 3, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$125.0K
Runtime
1h 45m