i guess i go into this movie with my hope too high . don not get me wrong about the work that go into this technically and and in that regard the movie be fairly solid . the cgi be a bit too crisp and a bit too clean and a bit too reminiscent of appleseed represent ex machina and but it well do . the visual detail be well do . it look pretty and but that a problem and because even the ghetto tokyo have turn into be pretty to an extent . technically and this movie be well do and and that why i haven not mark it low . but a technically good movie doesn not make it one worth watch . think about it represent any michael bay movie and or something like miller the spirit and or even titanic may be technically good and sound and but do that make it worth watch . my opinion be no and it doesn not . but there no spirit here and even in some of the most lame and tame anime and there be at least one character with something that will draw a viewer in . there nothing in the character that make me want to carry on with their story and and the least of them be the title character and vexille serra . honestly and it feel like this be suppose to be part of the universe appleseed exists in because i get the expectation that be suppose to already know who vexille and leon be ( especially since it come across much like deunan and briareos ) and so i seriously wonder if this be a retrofitted story that be reject for the appleseed series . i mean and shouldn not there have be something that make me feel sorry for takashi when he die . grant and this be science fiction and but that can not be an excuse for an empty feeling after watch it . isn not dramatic tension and character development and the need to engage the viewer still a necessity for a successful story . could i forgive the lack of character development if it be a decent action movie . maybe . but it not a decent action movie . the choreography be bland and the chase sequence be predictable . who do not know that maria and vexille would be the only one to make it to the island . who do not know that takashi be doom from the start . who do not see leon and maria past come a mile away . i guess if youre relatively unaware of the convention this movie be heavily use that these thing might be a surprise . but it amaze me that anyone would be surprise by anything that happen in the movie . i also have to say i be greatly disappointed with the jag . they be such an atrocious visual rip off of frank herbert sandworms in dune that i be great disappointed as soon a i saw them . the creator should be ashamed of themselves for so blatantly steal an idea from such a well know story . with no character development and especially with vexille herself and i think this movie fail on many and many level and which be too bad . this could have be a decent movie that might have create a decent franchise . but i be really hop for a one and do on this .