Altered Carbon: Resleeved

Season 1 of Netflix's Altered Carbon was good. Season 2 not so much. This stand-alone anime is set in between the two seasons. I'm happy to have more of Takeshi Kovac, but this animation is just so-so.

Good: Very nice CG animation. It's well-done and beautiful to look at. The actions are somewhat average, however, in terms of excitement or originality.

Bad: Cliche story. A bit boring. Half way through I kind of guessed the ending. Not much character development. Not much of a mystery either, it turns out.

It has been said a dozen times by now, the story is full of anime tropes and is cliched to no end. While that doesn't make it bad, it just loses points for having no originality and it didn't need the AC brand slapped on it.

The pros of the film are the visceral and kinetic fight scenes. What it achieves with its neatly and beautifully choreographed fights, it can't fix with the lack of human emotion from any of the characters or the story.

This should've been a shorter story on something like Love, Death, Robots - without the AC brand.

Ps. This still a better time investement than S2 of AC, Anthony Mackie had even less emotion for the entire season of AC S2 than any of the lifeless characters in this film. I guess that 500k per episode wasn't enough for the Marvel actor.

The animation style was the only redeeming thing about this The story line was a bit boring and the action over the top and not even in the tongue in cheek manner of "over the top" as in other well liked Anime such as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Mob Psycho 100. I gave it a generous 4 because I liked the animation style.

The characters and premises are borrowed from Altered Carbon TV series (not book), but seems like the storywriter(s) do not understand the characters. There is no envoy intuition at all in this animation, characters run around doing normal (wrong) things. Takeshi Kovacs also doesn't behave like the character in the book nor TV series. I was disappointed with this.

Horrible little girl that the plot revolves around needing to be saved by every other character

Do they think we like annoying characters?