Kaena: The Prophecy

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Max H 01/05/2023 Not very good. I really liked the concept and world building, which would've worked for a video game rather than a movie. But with the execution as is, it falls incredibly flat. The plot goes nowhere, the characters aren't very interesting, nothing exciting really happens, and the climax is disappointingly forced and the ending was flat. The animation looked like that of a PS1 cutscene (for an animation project made on a $25 million budget, I'd expect more). Some of the creature designs were cool looking though the human characters looked pretty hideous. The voice acting is pretty decent. Overall I found this to be a mediocre animated film. 4/10 See more 12/22/2021 Clearly a dated CGI animation I can live with that. But the story is a bit all over the place. See more 01/03/2020 Kind of a lifeless, dull anime with an overly convoluted plot. See more 09/02/2016 Science-fiction animation with impressive visuals superimposed on a videogame-grade storyline and many unnecessary, "accidental" sexy poses. See more 07/10/2015 Charming little sci-fi fantasy film about a girl who leads her people to a new world. See more 01/31/2014 One line summary: Relentlessly ugly and poor animation meets nearly opaque script. -------------------------- The picture starts near a village high on a huge vine called Axis. One resident is Kaena, a young adult woman who likes to adventure, while the rest of the village is bound to harvesting sap and offering it to the gods. For sassing the priest, she is exiled. She is captured by an unfamiliar group that is very interested in her because she has curiosity, and will venture beyond the village. Opaz and his people have reconstructed a star ship to return to their home planet. Kaena sees visions of a repository of knowledge of Opaz' people. After various machinations, the repository opens itself to Kaena, with conflict all around her. Will the disputes among the groups be resolved? ------Scores------- Art/Animation: 2/10 There is seriously too much negative space is the artwork for most of the scenes, rather like the more disgusting parts of the Alien series, or most of H. R. Giger's paintings or sculptures. It is mostly dark, dull, depressing, surreal, and hideous. Other parts of the film are overly bright and washed out. Neither of these habits is attractive or 'eye candy' as I have seen this monstrosity described so often. Here and there I see serious frame jumps, the kind one sees in a flip book. Sound: 2/10 Amazingly bad leveling. Keep your hand near the volume control. This detracted seriously from the voice acting. Acting: 4/10 Richard Harris and Keith David were fine; Kirsten Dunst was much better than I expected. The queen and so many others were just terrible. Screenplay: 3/10 Next to opaque. Exposition of motivations was a distant, never achieved goal. See more Read all reviews

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