a scanner darkly and minority report and blade runner and sin city and sky captain and the world of tomorrow if you be a fan of any of these then this will be well worth check out . french animation project renaissance take seven year to make on a shoestring budget and tonight i finally get to see it at a private screening for the international film festival in stockholm . my spontaneous reaction be awe while my further reflection be huh and neat and close analysis regrettably get a resounding ameh . it be a gorgeous science fiction triumph on the surface and but scratch it or even poke it a little and it unnecessarily complex plot become glaringly apparent and a do the flat character . nevertheless it be clear that the people at onyx film have do something spectacular with the aforementioned surface . the visuals be stagger . they have use live action motion capture fit into key frame animation and with stark jet black and bright white contrast and a heavily shadow rotoscoped background . for those of you who be not down with the technical lingo and the film look like a fully animated sin city . it fluid and transparent and dark and stylized template be complement by great lurid lightning . it a vision . yet much credit be also due to the crisp sound effect that take the form of hum futuristic weapon and suspenseful music and heavy raindrop and glass shard break . it every tech nerd wet dream . the film zoom in on an eerily lit and bleak and futurescape paris in which a major corporation call avalon have begin to interweave in the life of the citizen with surveillance ( think the fluid transparent screen from minority report ) and genetic engineering . the latter lead to a mysterious kidnapping of young researcher ilona ( voice by the lovely romola garai ) . cut to our hard boil cop on suspension and protagonist karas ( daniel craig ) a man who take the law into his own hand who be assign the case of find and retrieve ilona . during this case and he be be aid by illona sister with whom he also begin a love affair . a very half assed love affair and if i may say so . the world of renaissance be remarkable . director christian volckman take a fair jab at melt the noir theme and the result be an urban jungle fill with cad and rat and femme fatales and lonely detective that hide in the shadow of the seedy slum . the problem be that the creator undoubtedly felt the need to have extremely clear and spell out archetype in the story and or the film would have be too surreal for mainstream audience and owe to it lurid animation format . it follow then that we have a multitude of clichéd character such a evil laughing villain and sleazy crime boss and butch tough chick who blow smoke every chance they get . it shove noir in our face and and it isn not necessary . what be bad be that the dialogue be a little contrived . it seem a though every line exist for the sole reason of propel the plot . this be nothing fatal because the plot be so complex once it get go that it need some clear direction . daniel craig help here too by bring a no nonsense attitude to his hard edge cop character . at one point in renaissance and he be see in a vivid car chase that surely be one of the most adrenaline pumping and top notch sequence of the film . unfortunately and the novelty of the sci fi visuals have wear off post this car chase and renassaince could benefit from be slightly short . in summary and a very interesting but flaw futuristic comic book experience . positive .