Actullay a 6.5. It's not a 7 (=good,8=very good, 9=excellent, 10=perfect) and little better than a 6 (=average) but 1/2s are not allowed here.
Saw this at TIFF. The visual seems like having Sin City the comic book animated. With fluid movements, play off reflected images, shot angles, ...etc it is obvious how much thought is put into the presentation. And at times this could be distracting ... or it might be good see this twice ..... once for visuals, once for story... however...the story ..... hmmmmm is another story.
The story is a noirish styled detective investigation with plenty of pulp(and clichéd) dialogue to match. There's the "fearless, not your regular detective scene","I'm handing in my badge scene", and the slow "falling for the 'bad' dame" sequence.
Nice and distracting as the visuals is, at least twice, the plot holes took me out of the story. A lot of convenient delays just so the hero can discover all the secrets. There are some Blade Runner homage or references, and the future Paris setting adds more grounding feeling to the story, except the version I saw everyone spoke English so .. kind of doesn't fit, in that respect.
Back to the visuals a bit. The only strange thing is that all the non-human parts are very realistic but the human faces are kind of cartoonish. An maybe it's just me, Johanathan Price's voice is so distinct that the character seems kind of ... having an out-of-the-body experience.
Saw this at TIFF. The visual seems like having Sin City the comic book animated. With fluid movements, play off reflected images, shot angles, ...etc it is obvious how much thought is put into the presentation. And at times this could be distracting ... or it might be good see this twice ..... once for visuals, once for story... however...the story ..... hmmmmm is another story.
The story is a noirish styled detective investigation with plenty of pulp(and clichéd) dialogue to match. There's the "fearless, not your regular detective scene","I'm handing in my badge scene", and the slow "falling for the 'bad' dame" sequence.
Nice and distracting as the visuals is, at least twice, the plot holes took me out of the story. A lot of convenient delays just so the hero can discover all the secrets. There are some Blade Runner homage or references, and the future Paris setting adds more grounding feeling to the story, except the version I saw everyone spoke English so .. kind of doesn't fit, in that respect.
Back to the visuals a bit. The only strange thing is that all the non-human parts are very realistic but the human faces are kind of cartoonish. An maybe it's just me, Johanathan Price's voice is so distinct that the character seems kind of ... having an out-of-the-body experience.