646f9e108c Anime adventure from &#39;Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex&#39; (2002) director Kenji Kamiyama. Nine cyborgs created for destructive purposes disappeared for over 27 years after they were forced to turn on their creators in the name of justice. Now,a number of seemingly unrelated terrorist attacks happen in locations throughout the world, the group reunites to battle against the devastating force and restore order to the globe once more. Well, that was a train wreck.<br/><br/>From about 1/3 of the way in, 009 Re:Cyborg steadily goes from passable to bad to worse to horrible, eventually coming to rest at &quot;WTF?&quot;.<br/><br/>The last anime I can think of to spend such massive resources so ineffectively from a dramatic standpoint was &quot;Metropolis&quot; (2001). And that was a considerably better film.<br/><br/>Indeed 009 Re:Cyborg isclose to &quot;cost no object&quot; animationthere is these days. The military hardware is all rendered with fetishist detail, the backgrounds are sumptuously drawn, and all manner of computer- assisted effects enlisted.<br/><br/>The main problem with this film isn&#39;t even the overwrought and meaningless plot. I&#39;ll buy a lot of things, and though a 9/11-inspired story about pseudo-religious communion with &quot;voices&quot; that induce terrorist acts isn&#39;t really my bag, I&#39;d be prepared to let that just drive the movie along and join the ride.<br/><br/>I should add I have no emotional investment in the original series, so they can preserve or desecrate the memory of the Cyborg: 009 TV show all they want. As an aside though I note uncanny resemblances of two characters in particular to Tony Stark and Eric Banner will probably seem odd to Western audiences.<br/><br/>No, the main problem with this film is that its empty of any genuine emotional content or character interaction. Stuff happens. Characters stand around staring vacantly, stating in the declarative what needs to be stated to convey information to the audience. To break the monotony there are frequent bouts of wordy philosophical ennui. Then there&#39;s a gunfight or some random and frequently ludicrous action sequence. Rinse and repeat.<br/><br/>Sigh.<br/><br/>And the ending has to rank up thereone of the weakest and laziest bit of scripting in the history of anime. When I glanced through the names of the production team behind this movie, I honestly expected a lot out of it. You have Kenji Kamiyama, who is understandably the perfect guy for this movie, having directed some well-known works like Eden of the East. This was especially so given his experiences in bringing out hidden &quot;human&quot; values through cyborgs in his GITS series. You also have Kenji Kawai, who produced some of the best soundtrack ever heard in sci-fi series.<br/><br/>However this movie felt to me like these guys went back to school, or maybe they were not trying to surpass their previous works. Kenji Kawai&#39;s scores this time around had no new tune to them, almost sounded like recycled from his own previous works. <br/><br/>The cyborg characters were bland. The lack of dialogue between the characters was not the problem, but I expected something more systematic instead of jumping through eventsif they had no significance to the bigger picture. They were trying to milk out a juice I call &quot;character&#39;s thoughts&quot; especially right at the end, which I felt was still poorly executed<br/><br/>There seemed to be a critical lack of interaction of events with each other, And this in my opinion was more serious an issue than the lack of interaction between characters because you need events to correlate with each other well to make difficult concepts in sci-fi materials approachable to the audience. <br/><br/>Overall, A fan or anyone familiar with their works would expect something thought-provoking out of the movie. But this time around, &quot;thought-provoking&quot; was an ingredient clearly missing - like an empty shell. <br/><br/>There were a few chapters of pre-anime release manga that can be easily searched online. The manga chapters had slight alterations to the movie, but then, it makes me wonder if this movie was actually made for the manga or something else, which makes sense because of its second-class quality.
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