Renaissance (2006)
43 %
Reviews Counted: 65 Fresh: 28 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Renaissance attempts to blend sci-fi wonder with stark noir animation, but is often more fun to look at than to watch.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 22, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: In the near future in a Paris, France, made of Plexiglas, aerodynamic steel beams, and rainslicked surfaces, a sinister plot unfolds: it's one honest cop (voiced by Daniel Craig) against an evil corporatocracy, corrupt scientists, and the mob, as he uses his wits and grit to rescue a... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Catherine McCormack, Romola Garai, Ian Holm
Director: Christian Volckman
Screenwriter: Mathieu Delaport, Alexandre de la Patelliere
Producer: Jean-Bernard Marinot, Aton Soumache, Roch Lener, Alexis Vonarb
Screenwriter: Mathieu Delaport, Alexandre de la Patelliere
Producer: Jean-Bernard Marinot, Aton Soumache, Roch Lener, Alexis Vonarb
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07/22/08
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Like most cyberpunk, this film has a stellar premise. However, also in the tradition of cyberpunk, its storytelling and presentation is as murky as its production design.
09/09/07
...suffers from an unpleasant and relentlessly distracting animation style that ultimately renders its few positive attributes moot.
08/16/07
There are no grey shadings in the film's visual palette to match the characters' more equivocal moralities, and the result is a dark, dark world occasionally exposed to the most harsh and unforgiving of lights.
08/06/07
The movie radiates a dark, eerie, mysterious, otherworldly quality, yet it isn't enough to sustain over an hour and an half of story.
07/19/07
Renaissance is a victory of style over substance and technology over art, but to score a real win, the filmmakers need to strike a better balance between the two.
07/18/07
The style doesn't just overwhelm the substance, it makes it irrelevant.
03/24/07
Lacks a beating heart at its core. It's all about its technical aspects and sense of cool, and that's just not good enough.
03/01/07
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01/20/07
A pic of true craftsmanship that dazzles until it wears out its welcome and becomes a drag.
12/03/06
For its retro-futurist look alone, this outdated thriller set in 2054 Paris is worth seeing.
11/03/06
Top Critic
If someone rips a page out of Sin City, Blade Runner, V for Vendetta and every other futuristic degradation of politics and corporations and no one is around to hear it, what is there to listen to?
11/02/06
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10/15/06
If you have the time and densely plotted potboilers are your thing, it's worth the trip.
10/12/06
Its dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing.
10/12/06
Top Critic
It's the novel side that fails, a convoluted, futuristic detective thriller.
10/06/06
An empty experience; lots of shadow and noise, adding up to very little.
10/06/06
Even more soulless than Tron or The Black Cauldron, Renaissance seems less a vanguard advance than the rococo degeneration of an art movement for trippy nerds.
10/06/06
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