Renaissance

Duration: 1 hr. 45 min
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Daniel Craig, Ian Holm,
Jonathan Pryce, Romola Garai
Director: Christian Volckman
Producer: Alexis Vonarb, Aton Soumache, Roch Lener
Distributor: Miramax Films
Release Date: September 22, 2006
Writer: Alexandre de La Patellière, Mathieu Delaporte based on adaptation by Jean-Bernard Pouy and Patrick Raynal

Renaissance is a visually impressive movie. It uses contrast in black & white, reminiscent of a Frank Miller graphic novel. However while at first the visual approach is appealing it soon wears out its welcome. The action sequences become tough to follow and it is difficult to differentiate between the characters that have been introduced and new ones. In addition, Renaissance suffers from plot and pacing issues.

Fans of Phillip K. Dick’s work will be reminded of Blade Runner and Minority Report because Renaissance uses the cyberpunk genre heavily. The sad part is that Renaissance doesn’t branch out from the genre at all. Bartholomew Karas (voiced by Daniel Craig)is no different than the characters Deckard or Anderton.

Overall I’d like to recommend Renaissance due to its visual style alone, but unfortunately due to the overwhelming headache that it caused, I can’t even do that. I give Renaissance 1 out of 5 stars.

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