6/10
Great Visuals, But Lacking a Good Story
20 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Altered Carbon: Resleeved has great CGI and entertaining action scenes. What lacks is the story. And I know that Altered Carbon: Resleeved focuses on the action over the story, but the story lacks a lot of substance. The plot is supposed to be a murder mystery, but it lacks so many layers, and when the third act arrives, the twist really isn't all that great. We just get rushed into the story without any character development.

The action is supposed to be the best part about Altered Carbon: Resleeved, and it is. The visuals are stunning with all the gore, and it's all very stylized. But the way they edited some of the fight scenes makes it hard to actually see anything. Since it's edited so poorly, you can barely see any of the great animations. The CGI is great too, the world is very cyberpunk, as it should be. That's why I think the CGI should be used for making settings instead of characters, because the CGI characters are poorly animated. The facial expressions are really bad. There's such a lack of expressions when the characters emote, and it looks goofy at times. In some instances, the characters' lips are just moving and nothing else.

Altered Carbon: Resleeved is a good action movie, but the plot and characters are poorly handled. There's little character development and the plot was rushed. If Altered Carbon: Resleeved was longer, it would've had more time to develop everything. The action is stunning and the animations are good, but with bad editing, it looks messy. Lastly, the character facial emotes are bland and lifeless. But since Altered Carbon: Resleeved is just over an hour long, it's worth the watch; if it was two hours long, then it would be a different story.
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