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The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Well, not funny ha-ha but at least interesting. Your humble reviewer used to review films professionally (back when dinosaurs walked the earth) and also worked in Hollywood for a short term. Talking to an old friend (they are all old at this point) I mentioned that the biggest surprise and pleasure to me at my stage of life was discovering Japanese animation, and I had lately been watching a number of features and series, many in the original Japanese with subs, in fact. The friend asked, what is your favorite? I said, I was not sure. He then asked, which one would you want to see over, if you had a chance? My answer was this film, Appleseed. It is amazing at so many levels. The animation is to die for, especially the eyes. Wow. The story (in spite of the other reviews) is fine, and, as you may discover, a heck of a lot better than the official sequel. And I love the names. Brilliant. If I ever get another dog, I intend to name the animal either Deunan -- which sounds so wonderfully Scottish, it could be the next Mel Gibson movie -- or Briareos, which is one of the few names I can recall that sounds longer than it actually is. As you may have noticed, this is not a traditional review. But it is indeed as review. Astonishing film. I dare you to see it and not marvel at what is coming out of Japan.

I have been searching the "lost" animated movies for something quite interesting and have been quite delighted to find this one. Animation is not TOO good although they are trying - I assume is due to the brutally long time in terms of computer animation since this movie was made - but post catastrophic check, dark environment check, massive new weapons check, cute main characters check, the point where you do not know whether it is machines trying to eliminate humans or humans eliminating machines or each other or WHAT? check:) Watch on a weekday with a glass of cider after a long day and you wont complain. It is like enjoying Ms Peckman:) Cheers!

This is one of those movies that everyone should watch. Not for the story, which unfortunately isn't all that wonderful, just a pretty standard yarn about Utopian world and futuristic issues between real people and genetically engineered ones. Not even for the animation, which really is breathtaking by the way. You should watch it to see what a real female heroine should be like. You know how there's...oh, I don't know, Lara Croft? She kicks ass, but she's utterly cold and you can't really relate to her? Or...there's countless other anime chicks who're ultimately only sidekicks to the main male characters, whoever they are, and they're usually either sullen or vapid to boot? Deunan Knute, the main character from Appleseed, is not only a woman soldier, she's unbelievably cool and actually has a soul to boot. Oh, and she's gorgeous, but totally doesn't give a damn. I can honestly say that with the exception of Kill Bill (which, yes I'm going to say it, has a little more blood than I have the stomach for) there is no other movie with a female heroine as inspiring. I hope this is going to be the beginning of a trend rather than a relatively little-known exception to the rule. So, what's the plot, you say? Deunan is a soldier fighting in a third world war that has resulted in worldwide destruction and the creation of a city called Olympus. In Olympus, humans co-exist with other, less emotional and therefore less violent genetic counterparts. Deunan is summoned back to Olympus, and told the war is over. But there is another reason why she's been called back, and the answer seems to lie in the uneasy tensions between the humans and the new humans, and the powers that preside over Olympus, a lot of whom have Greek names. Assigned as her bodyguard is her former lover, whom she hasn't seen in a long time. Due to heavy injuries sustained in a war, he's had a new body fitted out for him. Nowhere near as hot as it should be, but somewhere out there some hentai animators are going yeah, cyborg sex, go for it! By the way, a little fact from the manga, her lover Briareos, though you only see him for about ten seconds in the movie, is actually black. Do I love this woman or what? I mean, she can fight, she can shoot, she is never whiny, not for one second, and she's actually into the interracial thing too? There's nothing in the plot synopsis above that you won't find out in the first half-hour of the movie (except the Briareos being black thing. That you got from me.) And the plot, a little too complicated and not really inspiring enough, isn't going to be what you remember. But if you watch anime and are sick and tired of seeing girls being shown as these paragons of virtue that whine in high-pitched voices, or just sick of robotic female action heroes in mainstream Hollywood, just watch Appleseed. Deunan Knute rules all.

i have seen Appleseed at least 5 times and it only gets better with each viewing. the detail in city planning, mechanics and characters is just great, the action is unbelievably good and the plot is really really good. As a regular movie, it would be one of the best sci-fi i have seen, and i have seen a lot of them. The fact, that its anime makes it match better, allowing creative freedom and making all of the directors visions possible. 10 of 10 ad that is the minimum i could ever give this anime. if you have seen and liked Ghost in the shell then you will just love Appleseed. I have not read the manga and cannot comment on them, but i tell you, the movie is really worth watching.