Vexille

We love futuristic anime, with cool technology and lots of detailed action scenes. This movie is full of that, also it stands out from the rest with its unique alternative reality story. It stands out with its animation and sound track. It stands out a lot and is appealing to wide audiences, not only science fiction anime fans. We can't agree with anyone who says bad things about this cool movie.

This movie was directed by Fumihiko Sori who produced Appleseed 2004 movie, so expect some similarities. Animated by Oxybot, maybe not so know yet, but they will grow big in the future.

The stetting is quite unique. The story takes place in 2077, ten years after Japan isolates itself from the rest of the world. A team of American special forces called SWORD are sent on a mission to infiltrate Japan, see what they have been doing for the past ten years. What they will find will shock the world...

Although a really promising script, it sometimes becomes quite dull, with too much unnecessary dialog that could have been used elsewhere. Maybe it could have been better if it was made in to two or more parts with more depth to the characters and the story. As always we can't have everything at once, so just enjoy this movie as it is and don't say a bad word about it.

Characters look really good, the use of cell shading does really fit this movie in our opinion. Although they might not have real depth and backgrounds to them, they look alive and move accordingly. We also have cool mecha in this anime, from tiny egg shaped robots to "Jags", large scale sand worms absorbing metal to grow bigger.

The animation is the best part of this anime, if you can get the Blu-ray version, you will be amazed by the detailed characters and animation of Vexille. It is that good that you have to watch it many times to see just how good it is. People should understand that they are watching computer generated images not hand drawn or even live-action film. The movie is so good, you tend to forget about the animation and concentrate on how the story doesn't connect. Just look at “Jags”, how hard is it to animate something like that, do you think, crashing over the sand? It takes a lot of high skill to create stuff like this, look at many other scenes. For all this, this movie is compared even to FF:AC by some, but don't forget how many releases FF had, to how many CG releases did Oxybot or Sori had.

The director of Vexille made sure to have a great soundtrack. Great music similar to Appleseed movie. All mixed by Paul Oakenfold, the soundtrack does make the action more intense, we would love to hear more. Sound effects are nothing less than the music tracks tr, we can only thank the creators for this cool movie.

In a quick recap, Vexille is great entertnaiment, it was made with wide audiences in mind, many will find something they like about this movie and find something that they don't like, mostly it will be flaws in the story. Characters animated using cell shading techniques, the rest is pure and very detailed CGI. We recommend it to everyone, if you liked Appleseed, you will enjoy watching this.


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