| 60 |
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Craft connoisseurs won't be disappointed with the splendidly executed result. However, everyone else is likely to wonder what the fuss about given the plot's dated cyborgs-and-supercomputers hijinks.
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| 60 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
The film has enough originality to interest demanding fans of the genre.
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| 50 |
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.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Only real fans, however, will be willing to slog through the heaping helpings of incomprehensible exposition.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
The film's lingering exploration of their sleek surfaces verges on roboporn.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
At this point, there's something almost masochistic about the way animators in Japan use cheesy ''Westernized'' heroes to fuel their fantasies.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Whatever is lost in translation can't keep Appleseed from feeling a decade late--and its animation from looking like a relic on arrival.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The characters are (hand-painted) so flat that the film looks like a paper-doll convention at Epcot.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
While there are some genuinely dazzling moments of visual bravura, the marriage of flatness and depth that Mr. Aramaki attempts doesn't quite work.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Dazzling visually but is flattened by corny dialogue better suited to the 1936 "Flash Gordon" serial, a needlessly hard to follow plot and heavy-handed exposition clotted with pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
The film's snazzy new automated animation style falls short: The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands.
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| 40 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Its busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot. A simple Shirow pinup parade might almost be preferable.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Much of the movie is dull, and as it has been dubbed into English, the blah-blah is impossible to ignore.
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| 40 |
Empire
The characters might physically appear rounded, but are otherwise paper-thin.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Lackluster anime.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
The visuals are really the only compelling reason to see Appleseed.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Held back by a story and script that is often silly and confusing.
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