Review: Appleseed Ex Machina

Review: Firstly, just so that everybody knows, this is the sequel to the movie Appleseed, which was a fantastic movie and has been rated 4 out of 5 stars, on Edd The Zombie, so go watch the Appleseed, before you sit down to watch Appleseed Ex Machina.

Secondly, I only became aware of Appleseed Ex Machina through a friend, so it looks like this was released but has not been a very big hit, however that is a mistake which no one should assume to be a true projection of the quality or storyline of Appleseed Ex Machina.

The movie picks up just after where the Appleseed finished, where you are injected into the city of Olympus and thrown right in behind the life of Deunan Knute, a female E-Swat member, currently dating a cyborg, who was her boyfriend before the war, and was also human before the war which separated them. However, now re-united they have become an unstoppable force within the E-Swat team, and fight the crime that is rising within a city nick named as utopia.

Upon one mission to rescue a group of hostages Briareos, the cyborg boyfriend suffers battle damage and Deunan is given a replacement partner for a short period of time. This partner is a bioroid, a human creation, based on the genetics of Briareos, and unfortunately for Deunan, looks just as briareos used to when he was human, causing lots of emotions and memories to come back up, resulting in lots of confusion.

Along with her new partner, they have to try and save the city from a single entity trying to take over the population through a form of mind control, projected into the minds of all via a device that looks not unlike a blue tooth headset for mobile phones.

The resulting situation throws E-Swat on high alert, with riots breaking out all over the city and people not actually knowing what they are doing, due to no control. They are turned into mindless zombie mobsters, through the simple headset.

The problem however does not lie within Olympus, but rather a fellow city (Poseidon) and has seen the return of HALCON, originally the research facility for healing minds and brain damage. Dr Kestner, which is briareos’ Dr, is in control of this facility and has come to the realisation that the one entity this device will not work on is Briareos, so he injects him with a virus that allows for the start of all the anarchy. Through hacking all of the satellites whilst they are interlinked, allowing Dr Kestner to link his mind control through to the population with unimaginable force, rather than using the portable wireless pigeon devices which he used to test the system.

The finale sees a cyborg, a human and a bioroid attack the facility within which Dr Kestner started his plan for destruction. Within a heated battle, the three have to fight off anything that is thrown their way, in order to have any hope of saving the world.

If you watch Appleseed Ex Machina, I believe you may be satisfied with the quality of work that has been developed, although the storyline is not quite as mind dazzling, and perhaps spread out through a period of time that is a little stretched, and could leave you a little bored.

Never the less, Appleseed Ex Machina, is an adaptation of Masamune Shirows work, which is always original and compelling. Appleseed Ex Machina, is definitely worth a watch if you have seen Appleseed, and is rated 3 out of 5 stars by Sycrid.

Originally posted on Edd The Zombie

Sycrid.

Review: Appleseed

Within the vast range of anime movies that I have watched, Appleseed caught my imagination perfectly; it opened up the idea of our future and the idea of how people will live along side their creations.

Appleseed deals with a lot of complex issues which are treated within what could be scene as an extended opening scene. The issues Appleseed deals with include how are creations can become as complex as we our selves are, what happens when we see both humans and alternative life as different rather than universal and equal. The subject of relationships is thrown into Appleseed as the main character Dunen discovers her boyfriend is still alive, but only due to being turned into a cyborg in order to survive.

The opening of Appleseed sees Dunen fighting off a collective of rogue soldiers, within a destroyed world, after the earth was brought close to the end, through a global war, set within 2131. Her team is wiped out very fast and she has to run, when a group of E-Swat fighters drop in around her, annihilate the rogue soldiers and neutralize Dunen.

E-Swat had been sent in to extract Dunen from the only world that she knows, and take her back to the city Olympus, referred to by from those within, as a utopia, where everyone lives equally.

After Dunen wakes up in Olympus, she has everything explained to her. Where she is, what she is doing and why she has been brought to the city. She is here to help, to stop what is originally seen as a code or virus which could eliminate one of the best creations that human kind has developed, the bioroid. This demise of the bioroid was developed as a fail safe for the human population to ensure that things do not lose control and turn nasty, but with some one set out to release the devastating issue upon the bioroid population, then there is only one way to stop things.

Dunen is here to make sure this does not happen, she has to find something that was left to her by her mother, when she was very young. It is the key to stopping the virus and takes her on an emotional trip through forgotten memories and feelings. Upon discovery of the key, things are thought to be resolved, for a very short period of time, until the true information about what the virus is. This results quite clearly in an all out battling struggle to reach the viruses storage facility and stop it from being released.

I’ve seen Appleseed a handful of times and it always captures my imagination, so I can only imagine that anyone who is interested in watching a good sci-fi or anime movie, would enjoy Appleseed.

Appleseed is rated 4 out of 5 stars by Sycrid.
Originally Posted on Edd The Zombie

Regards,
Sycrid