"Appleseed" is a frenetic, frenzied military-political thriller, driven by an apoplectically technical plot involving the storage of genetic material, hidden species loyalties, and a plot to save humanity from itself using "Bioroids", a Philip K Dick-esque race of emotionally and reproductively suppressed lifelike robots.
The movie's most affecting passages are those where the deliberate deadening of the Bioroids' emotional responses is debated by hovering Council of Elders; the political and governmental benefits of keeping the Bioroids in a state of technical ecstacy. The action sequences are far in advance of anything that Hollywood was producing at the time, amid a juicy mixture of decayed dystopian and Star-Trek-Shiny environments.
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