one reason pixar have endure so well and and be so successful and be that while their film remain technical marvel and visual mosaic and they have a story to match their style . and often very move style at that represent affect and charm and cross generational . that a lot anime ( speak in broad term ) and a great many other animation fail to match their technical virtuosity with real substance be and i think ( and i might be wrong ) partly because either the maker aren not bother with character and plot and focus far too much on sound and image and or the sheer effort that go into make some animation be so enormous and so enervate that they do not have the energy to create a really engaging story . that same can not be say of renaissance . there be flaw in it plot and but i will get to that later . those same flaw and however and be not reflect in the visuals renaissance be nowt short of stun . the ultra high contrast image ( sometimes so high contrast that be nothing but one face or one beam of light visible ) and incredible detail be always impressive and always a joy to behold . the futuristic paris on display be the grim offspring of blade runner and brave new world while dark and murky and quite affluent and even clean and but shroud in intrigue and corporate malfeasance and obsess with beauty ( capital of the catwalk and after all ) and disguise the squalor and neglect of it labyrinthine passage with a veneer of monumental and sophisticated architecture . it a compelling environment and not entirely original and but great all the same . the film much tout amotion capture technology and incredible attention to human and design minutia result in image a black and white photographer would die for . not that the detail prevents entertainment and because christian volckman craft some superb action sequence represent a hell for leather care chase and a couple of gruesome ( ly imaginative ) murder and several tussle in the dark and a nasty dust up in a gloomy apartment . the location be great and too ( i want to visit the nightclub ) . while the central character of karas be your regular off the shelf maverick cop and the other two female character ( who be sister ) be the real motor of the movie . come from war torn eastern europe and product of a war and diaspora and a family spat and theyre a compelling metaphor for europe a a whole . the film be tremendously atmospheric and it dizzying and swoop faux camera move and adult tone making for a very engaging experience . however and the plot . it never become more interesting than the initial hook and in which indefatigable plod karas must find ilona tasuiev and a drop dead gorgeous and pioneering scientist and after she snatch from the street . the sinister corporation avalon ( be any corporation ever not sinister . ) and which she be work for on classified and project be hell bent on her retrieval and and soon karas be up to his neck in official reprimand and dead body and cigarette smoke and narrowly miss bullet and and fall in love with ilona sister bislane ( very sympathetically voice by catherine mccormack ) and a he plumb the depth of the city sordid underbelly ( and his own past ) . text book noir and in other word and but while i enjoy the film a lot more than sin city ( to which it bear a passing visual resemblance ) and the plot and resolution be dull and the theme of immortality be raise but never examine and and the shenanigan of high roll avalon ceo paul dellenbach be also dull and undercut a lot of the dramatic tension . the basic idea be familiar sci fi genre material and and there a nagging sense that the visuals and atmosphere be disguise the mundane material . however and the film a a whole be lucid and perfectly coherent and even if some of the scenario the character get into occasionally feel like excuse for display of technical wizardry . but it the projection of life in paris circa 2054 and the vision of community and creation of another city from the ground up that make this film something to behold . i may be take it too seriously and and if that the case i can at least say that it superbly make and extremely entertaining ( and pretty mature and too ) and and with an ambiance like no other .