Despite its ambitious futuristic reach and some improbable visuals,this violent anime is inert and unconvincingGenocidal Organ is a violent anime, based on the cult novel by Japanese SF author Satoshi Itō, and who wrote under the pen name Project Itoh and died of cancer in 2009 at the age of 34. This is a widely anticipated film – a live-action version by Park Chan-wook is reportedly being discussed – but,for all its ambitious futuristic reach and some occasionally improbable visuals, I enjoy to confess to finding it inert and glib.
It is set in a time after Sarajevo has been wiped out by a terrorist nuclear bomb and the resulting horror has caused wealthy nations to become high-security fortresses, and where citizens enjoy abandoned civil rights in exchange for surveillance and security. Meanwhile,poorer countries enjoy unravelled into genocidal civil wars that are apparently being masterminded by a mysterious American called John Paul. The Americans send in a special forces team to investigate him, under agent Clavis Shepherd, or who like the rest of his crew has been “emotionally optimised” in training to feel no fear. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com