Altered Carbon: Resleeved

Whoever thought to bring anime yakuza sensibilities into the world of Altered Carbon... Thank you. Resleeved was an awesome little addition to the series.

The story is interesting, mixing the detective plot of the first half of the first season with a yakuza power struggle. Then they decide to throw an interesting twist in there that capitalizes on the world it is set in.

Visually, this is a magnificent feat. CG-anime animation that actually looks good throughout the whole thing and manages to flow like real movement? How did they pull that off? Netflix has been doing a lot of that style lately, and they really hit ... their stride with Resleeved. It looks great.

That fluid 3D animation tells right into some really well-choreographed fights that feel ripped straight out of Sega's Yakuza videogame series. The fights are intense and hit heavy, but still show off skilled and intricate fighting.

Overall, Altered Carbon: Resleeved is a successful venture for the series into a new medium that expertly uses that move to create something worth adding to the universe.

To start things off watch the show first before watching this. This is not the best jumping on point as I learned when I watched it. So bearing that in mind my review may be biased as I have no see the show. But in any case let’s begin.

Story: The story is generic at best about to undercover badass people protecting a mafia tattoo girl from being assassinated. The way the events play out are very predictable and has nothing to engage you into the story, at points they even brush by important scenes for the characters involved making it dull and irritating to watch. ... If you want a stereotypical undercover yakuza story with a sci-fi twist then you can watch this and forget it the next day.

Characters: The characters bored me and even irritated me. The two adult leads are dull as anything. The only thing interesting about them is their relationship but it’s barely covered though it might be in the show. I know they are probably from the show because when ever they said their name their was a pause like the audience is meant to gasp in excitement. Then the girl was just a brat who constantly got on my nerves with her constant yells especially in the dub. The villain isn’t that interesting very clutches moustache twirling villain.

Animation and Sound: Now this is where this movie excels. Although its 3D it fits very well with what they wanted to give us. Cool action scenes. The action was just awesome with how they handled the 3D and the camera during action scenes. Due to the fact the antagonists are ninja the action was unique with each of the fights presented. However I found the music to be very generic with none of it making me hyped for the action nor for the events that took place.

Overall:5
This is just generic with the story, characters and music. The only thing that can be seen as great or ‘unique’ are the fight scenes. So if you want to watch a generic sci-fi movie then you can watch this for the cool action. Or you could just watch ghost the in the shell a great sci-fi movie with breath fight scenes.

Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)

Since I love the live-action show I really wanted to love this but it is so difficult.

The story of this is actually the best part in that it is well thought out and structured as per the universe that it exists in. It is enjoyable from start to finish in that regard.

The art of this, however, is what brings out down the most. It is CGI but we are not talking about the quality you get with shows like High Score Girl where it has been done well and thought out. Altered Carbon here has absolutely dreadful CGI. The characters ... when they standstill are great to look at and have the detail. When they move they are, however, clunky and all over the place. The combat looks dreadful because of this also. Some of them walk funny whilst others can barely function. The detail itself is good but that is about all you can say. It has a style reminiscent of a certain game series on a planet Pandora. But this has been done dreadfully.

Sound for this is good and is of a level expected.

Characters are difficult to talk about with the ONI which can make anyone everyone. They are , however, very nicely thought out characters. Still unsure how old Holly is.

The shows CGI attempt was awful and should be forgotten and not linked with the main show preferably.