6/10
Good visuals, good plot twist, bad development
29 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Visually this looks great, I have zero problem with this animation style. I liked the main plot twist but it was given away too easily, too soon, way before we're shown the characters figuring out what was going on.

Action-wise it could've been OK but the final fight was unnecessarily violent, long and with too much psychotic screaming. There was considerable stupidity in the hotel AI's interventions, first the use of excessive firepower to bring down smaller enemies, then the use of entertainment explosives to somehow bring down the biggest 'boss' of the whole movie. Also stupid how TK after looking incapacitated could suddenly get up from the floor and stab the 'boss' right in the one vulnerable spot in his armor, which happened to be right in the middle of his abdomen with no protection over it.

There's not much character development, the writers must have been relying on us watching this as a continuation of the Altered Carbon TV series. Still, it felt too thin, it was missing some more low-energy, low-aggression story development, it could've helped to add about half an hour of non-fight scenes to it.

Overall, I would definitely watch more of this style of animation, but would not be too happy to see more simplistic stories and characters doing so many stupid things as we saw here.
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