Appleseed

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Appleseed

R

2004

1h 45m

Fantasy

Action

Sci-Fi

Anime

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31 Reviews

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10,000+ Ratings

Deunan Knute is a female warrior who survives the Global War. When she meets her old love, Briareos Hecatonchires, 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.

Critics Consensus

While visually arresting, Appleseed's narrative and dialogue pondering existentialism is ponderous, awkward, and clumsy.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Apr 25, 2007

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.

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Maitland McDonagh

Time Out

Feb 9, 2006

Shut your brain down for optimal viewing pleasure.

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Tasha Robinson

AV Club

Sep 26, 2005

It's busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot.

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Bill Gibron

DVDTalk.com

Sep 26, 2009

4.5/5

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.

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Apr 29, 2009

2/4

I really wish I could have liked this more.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 26, 2026

The worldwide gross is $1,650,432.00.

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Igor K

@RT40755632 Jul 20, 2025

a thoroughly enjoyable lighter of the 3 films - imho the plot is good and the villain concept is timeless

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Anderson O

@Platinum2027 Jan 31, 2025

Well CGi animated introduction to Appleseed for a new generation. A very confusing plot to follow, but actions scenes later deliver and an abrupt ending. The scope and setting, character designs in the CGI world of Appleseed don’t disappoint either.

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Greg B

@RT71591597 Oct 6, 2024

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.

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Liam D

@Mediawatcher2003 Aug 3, 2024

It’s animation is beautiful but the story, voice acting and story are very unoriginal

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Aug 24, 2020

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.

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Shinji Aramaki

Director

Ai Kobayashi

Deunan

Jûrôta Kosugi

Briareos

Yuki Matsuoka

Hitomi

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Uranus

Mami Koyama

Athena

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Synopsis

Deunan Knute is a female warrior who survives the Global War. When she meets her old love, Briareos Hecatonchires, 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

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