Fantastic Film Festival Movie Review

Renaissance

Well im starting off at the festival 0 for 2. I wanted to like this movie so bad. The only thing i knew about the movie going in was by the trailer and a few movie clips. From what i saw i liked the style and thought it had potential. Well i was part right, it did have potential, but the story just let it down. Visually it was so unique and stylized it took a little while to get used to. While comparisons to Sin City im sure are gonna be made which is true to some degree, its still very much different. Where Sin City looked like human actors in a real life graphic novel this movie actually looked like an animated moving graphic novel. This look worked most of the time but during the very few action scenes I dont think it served it well and was hard to distinguish everything that was going on clearly. But having said that the visuals were the highlight of the film and that particular style of animation probably has a great future if it makes some subtle changes.

Where the movie went wrong was with the tired cliched plot and dialogue. The movie takes place in Paris in the year 2054. Apparently there was some great war that happened and France is taken over by some corporation called Avalon. At the beginning of the movie a young female scientist is kidnapped and its up to Detective Caras voiced by Daniel Craig to find her. He goes around questioning everyone and eventually hooks up with the kidnnapee's hot sister. He suspects either a co-worker or Avalon was behind it. She was working on a way to reverse aging for children that suffer from the age degenerative disease. All the moves the detective makes are ultra predictable and cliched. Everyone i saw either rolled their eyes or laughed during one scene when the detective is told he is suspended from the case and he grabs his badge and puts it on the desk. Just generic stuff like that was littered throughout the movie. By the end of the movie i was hoping for some kind of twist or something different but alas nothing came but the credits.

It was not a very good movie and anyone says that it is is fooling themselves or so blown away by the visuals they are overlooking the flawed story. Im not sure why they went for a R rating when all they literally have to do is cut out about 30 seconds of movie and it could easily be rated PG. This movie was a huge disappointment for me and i cant recommend anyone paying any significant amount of money to see it.

Heres the trailer