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A sci-fi, film noir, shot entirely in stark black and white linier graphics, designed to replicate the style of cult French graphic novels, was never going to ring everyone’s bell.

Filmed using the modern animation technique of motion capture, the gorgeous visuals and breathtaking imagery almost, but don’t quite excuse this film its clichéd plot.

The style is certainly ground braking and interesting enough to make the film a worthwhile watch, as we travel through a bladerunneresque Parisian futurescape, but the lack of anything meaty plot wise leaves one feeling a little short-changed.

Huge on style, empty of any real content only the most avid animation fan will want to see this through to its conclusion.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Disappointing

I found myself opening & reading my post while watching this film; not that it was dire, the standard tick-list of stuff you'd expect was included, but there was no empathy with there characters... nothing to humanise them. There was a distinct lack of emotion & adrenaline, even in the action sequences. Maybe it was partly due to it being computer graphics... I think the use of black & white has disguised for some perople the fact that the CG isn't up to date; it looked to me like the character models were rather clunky and unexpressive.

If the unfolding of the story hadn't been quite so painfully slow the 'twist' at the end might have been entertaining, but sadly they beat about the bush so much that there was nothing surprising or suspenseful.

Felt like a waste of time.