Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Vexille: 2077 Nippon Sakoku, Vexille: 2077 Japan National Isolation
Japanese: ベクシル 2077日本鎖国
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Type:
Movie
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Aug 18, 2007
Producers:
Avex Entertainment, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Shochiku, TBS, Yahoo! Japan, Shogakukan
Licensors:
Funimation
Studios:
Oxybot
Source:
Original
Theme:
Military
Duration:
1 hr. 49 min.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Statistics
Ranked:
#48162
2
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Popularity:
#4977
Members:
19,009
Favorites:
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Your Feelings Categories Jul 19, 2009
The story telling in Vexille is entirely unimaginative. Yes, that should be where this review begins; very little to no thought at all went into making the story line. Nearly everything is predictable far before it happens and the things that aren't you won't care about because there isn't any character depth to hold it together. This is not helped by the flashy animation style which accomplishes its shiny veneer at the cost of removing emotions from the faces of the characters. Seriously, it's not fair, the characters don't have that depth to lose. The fact that anime emotions are exaggerated beyond actual
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Apr 7, 2018
This dystopian flick can be summed up in two words - implausibly childish.
The film initially casts the hook with mystery and intrigue surrounding an technologically advanced but sealed Japan - a Pandora's Box! How exciting! We're enticed with glimpses of fancy gadgets Japan exports to America, Logic dictates the country itself must have something even better hidden behind its doors worthy of all the hype, right? Giant robots? Flying cities? They've been done before but hell we can never get enough of 'em! What's the extraordinary secret it all builds up to? Drumroll..... A SINGLE BACKWARD SLUM ON A PANCAKED FLAT DESERT. No, seriously, the film's imagination goes ... Dec 2, 2018
A very cool premise with a wonderful soundtrack and animation, Vexille gives you a beautiful protagonist set in an almost built upon world with a really, REALLY lackluster story. The movie has a very promising start, but fails to do anything with it. It shortly falls into a rebel alliance vs. the empire plot-line. However, it also fails to do this well.
It was basically like if you watched Star Wars, but you only watched the cantina scene up to Han shooting Greedo, then the meeting about the run to blow up the Death Star(in a somehow extended version) and then the actual run to blow ... |