It certainly doesn't look that way in trailers, since the one thing it has going for it is its technically impressive action animation. The trouble is that this one-hour OAV feels like a bunch of clips from a two-hour movie. All the big action scenes are there, but everything inbetween gets rushed through in a rote and dull fashion, like it bored the staff as much as this viewer. For example, a major part of the story is meant to be the two lead cops tracking down a terrorist, but their entire investigation is reduced to a brief montage of random shoot-outs in the middle. The story is too impatient to get to the next action scene, and so almost all the characters are reduced to empty shells.
The one character who fares better is the cop-turned-revolutionary who's one of the two main villains. Many of his grievances against the biodroid-controlled city seem valid, and the dystopian future he's trying to prevent seems like a legitimate threat, to the extent that other characters' off-hand dismissal of these problems feel like a strawman argument. Unfortunately, the OAV doesn't have time to delve into the moral grey areas here, as that would get in the way of the next robot shoot-out. Even the action starts to feel unfocused towards the end, with one of the villains going on a rampage that has no dramatic weight, serves no obvious purpose, and ends with a whimper. The same problem faces the OAV as a whole, the climax sputtering out in such an unsatisfying way that I swore I zoned out and missed something the first time.
