I like Asian films without being Asian myself, because they have a depth of meaning missing in most western movies. Each scene is a painting, each sentence a two edged sword. While this movie is Asian, it has not the qualities I was looking for when I downloaded it.
OK, the dark Earth where everybody is either hopeless or lives in the hope of leaving the planet for the planet of rebirth was pretty nice. Also the idea of a man doing everything for the love of a cyborg. But other than that, the movie had major defects. The fights were pathetic, even if nicely done, showing no strategic thinking whatsoever. I didn't get how fighting cyborgs were four times as fast and as powerful as human beings yet they sent humans to hunt them down. Also the main character is very hard to like. If it weren't for his policeman friend the story could have ended very abruptly and with no consequence. And again creating cyborgs that look and feel like humans, but that expire irrevocably in a few years is dumb.
Also the plot was fairly fragmented, without enough character development or satisfactory explanations, and lasted for two hours, which is a lot for a fragmented film.
Overall the movie is OK, but if it weren't sci-fi and Asian, I don't think I would have liked it at all.
OK, the dark Earth where everybody is either hopeless or lives in the hope of leaving the planet for the planet of rebirth was pretty nice. Also the idea of a man doing everything for the love of a cyborg. But other than that, the movie had major defects. The fights were pathetic, even if nicely done, showing no strategic thinking whatsoever. I didn't get how fighting cyborgs were four times as fast and as powerful as human beings yet they sent humans to hunt them down. Also the main character is very hard to like. If it weren't for his policeman friend the story could have ended very abruptly and with no consequence. And again creating cyborgs that look and feel like humans, but that expire irrevocably in a few years is dumb.
Also the plot was fairly fragmented, without enough character development or satisfactory explanations, and lasted for two hours, which is a lot for a fragmented film.
Overall the movie is OK, but if it weren't sci-fi and Asian, I don't think I would have liked it at all.