Movie starts of with a brief introduction about the kind of world the story taking place in, turns out this is a rather realistic version of our own world, all this drawn in incredible detail. Some splendid work done here. The characters themselves also have a realistic look, not the anime type look you would expect. So art wise it’s the bomb, how about the story?
A bit more complicated. You are not given so much information about the different groups (government, anti-government), and more then once I was waiting for answers that were not really given. The movie kind of wants you to figure out a lot of things for yourself.
Bottom line is that anti-government groups fight the government. The government that created some sort of “elite” force to get rid of the networks of underground movements trying to overtrow them.
The movie breaths a sense of “realism” you hardly see in Anime. The violence that does show sometimes is also shown without compromise. Not really a problem cause violence or not, this is no movie for a child, it would be fair to say they would label it as “boring”.
So if you are into movies that can have that artsy-feeling, show a alternate version of our world that actually could be. Then dig in, you will not regret. This is almost a true masterpiece, almost..
