2054. paris be an escher draw with people and vehicle scurry along at multiple level in an obvious homage to fritz lang metropolis . paris be both ultramodern and crumble into decay . and in the blink between surveillance sweep and a pretty young medical researcher be kidnap just after leave her sister in a seedy nightclub . a tough police captain investigates . show in stark black and white and with the gloomy corridor and shadowy alley and single source light characteristic of the most hard boiled of film noir and comparison to sin city be inevitable . but the story owe more to masamune shirow and william gibson than to frank miller and as high tech surveillance and near invisible stealth suit and ruthless super corporation be as much a part of the landscape a gun and car . the film never quite generate the doom laden atmosphere of gibson cyberpunk vision and with it tech heavy marginal character clash with industrial type from corporation that all seem to have their own ministry of fear and but the viewer definitely get the sense that future paris be no utopia and future science be less than benevolent . and a the police procedural plot line unfolds we be take into the darker recess of individual ambition beneath the shiny veneer of avalon corporation cultivate pr image . the motion capture process use here produce a look somewhere between b and w comic book and next generation rotoscoping and and be either captivate or intrusive depend on your taste . nevertheless and a great visual sense be on display here and and future paris be fill in down to the tiny detail give the picture a unique look which be in turn both spartan and baroque . worth a look .