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Just so...so bad

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The premise is that society built a machine that can measure human aggression and can predict criminal activity before it happens. Basically similar to Minority Report. Also, humanity has become so dependent on the technology that they have become stunted and oblivious to common sense similar to Demolition Man.The problem is the perspective. The show simply takes itself too seriously pretending to be deep and mysterious. It isn't, almost everything is obvious and you knew from the very 1st episode how this would end. The premises are absurd and unrealistic and the plot holes are so numerous that you cant even count them, and yet, the writers continuously try to explain themselves to make it logical which actually makes things worse. Demolition Man was excellent because it knew it was absurd and made fun of the fact through comedy. There is no comedy in this show... it literally believes its own hype.Minority Report was a bit better than this show because it did not drag on for so long. The story here is actually very shallow yet they try to delve into psychology and technology to make it more believable. As stated above, this strategy did not work. It actually worked against the show and made it less believable and characters less interesting. This is no Law and Order nor CSI.Give it a shot if you like. I would say that normal folks might find it interesting but if you are of tech background or have an above average intelligence, this one will bore you to death. I had to fast forward the last 4 episodes in season 1.

Truly an all encompassing show, which takes on many elements from Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, and is self aware of itself doing such through its thought-provoking and reflective dialogue. It discusses themes from many novels and philosophical works, in a very classy and clever style. The characters are wonderfully developed, both protagonists and antagonists, such in a way that you are left wondering who the real bad guy is.You truly develop an emotional connection to all of the characters, which I would suggest NOT doing unless you want to shudder on the ground and cry a river of tears. The electro post-rock-esque soundtrack is also epic, and will intensify all the emotion shown in this show, if the characters and lines were not enough. The plot is complicated at times, and many random names seem to be thrown around a lot. I would suggest taking a pen and paper when the detectives are doing detective work to help yourself keep up with the complexity. This anime is no time-waster, it opens your mind and broadens your horizons if you pay close attention to the meaning in the lines.

If the premise of this series seems vaguely familiar to you, you have probably read or seen The Minority Report by Phillip K Dick. Having said that, this series takes the original concepts and runs to places with them that even PKD didn't go. Extremely well-thought out ideas abound about the future of the web, everyday hologram use, future criminal behavior, intelligent weapons and the ultimate uses of wearable tech are both ever-present and scattered everywhere in this series like easter eggs, and if you are interested in the direction our interactions with politics, technology, surveillance and the internet are going, this is required viewing.The characters do stick, by and large, to traditional Japanese animation conventions, but I found that in this particular series they were more in line with Western expectations for a crime drama and were fascinating and believable once you adjust to the usual subtitle issues. This anime could be remade tomorrow as a western TV show or film and I believe it would do well (even after we censored the crap out of it); this is very accessible, emotional, and beautiful film making. The problems they face are solved in believable ways and that alone is extraordinary for an anime series. The violence is very adult and I would not let a child or even a weak stomached adult watch this. It's simply far too bloody and the situations are both adult and emotionally difficult. Throw in the serious questions this series poses about human behavior, the government's place in shaping it and government oversight, and it's a tough brew to process all at once.Much of what this series has to say are things we really need to be thinking about right now: The effect of violence on both victims and the police who choose to protect them, the undue focus and prejudice of the police, press and society on minorities and the poor, and the ability of corporations and the wealthy to ignore or shield themselves from the law and the massive injustices that this ultimately causes are all issues touched on by this VERY adult series.As far as anime goes, this is a 10. As entertainment in general it is an easy 9.

Psycho Pass 2 is way better then season 1 as the first series was a bit if a shonen show overall (all the manga are published in Comic Garden or Jump SQ and a chibi version also exists) that looked and sounded like it was seinen but retarded detectives, a nonsensical and inconsistent world, complete sh*tshows like the high school killing arc, Saturday morning cartoon villainy (MGS Rising robot dog represent), an inconsistent amounts of mostly off-screen violence and bland action men (or men with vaginas) characters made me drop it after 16 episodes. A borderline 6/10 because of the production values. Worst of all i got to read for a year straight how "cerebral" and intelligent it was while actual sci-fi seinen fare as GitS: Sleepless Eye never crossed the border.No more sitting between the chairs this time though as the new team decided to turn Psycho Pass it into a 90s OVA! The companion manga is still shonen but the violence is directly on screen and in your face. It is also admitted that only incapable idiots would get to be cops so a bunch of Gendo Ikaris and their children would be able to run the world while sitting in dark rooms and playing war games. Society would need to be evil to actually function and now it is! I love it how come idiots continued to play the witch-hunt game after they found out what it was about and the bad guys are now finally glorified rock stars. I also like that they gave big bad Frankenstein-senpai a cute slasher girlfriend. The music is ace too (what an ending!) and right out of Deus Ex. Best of all there is no rape appreciation like 90s OVA'S used to have and the female characters get to be as capable (or hilariously not) as anyone and why does everyone on cyberspace hate Freckles-chan? She may be heaps dumb and corrupt but so were most of the cast. Well done IG as your series now gets to sit besides Gantz, JoJo and Terraformars as fun escapist manly men entertainment without any of the pretentious crap from season one. Sure intelligent shows like Ergo Proxy, GitS, Lain or Texhnolyze are better but this was still an exciting ride and the ending was highly conclusive and calmer than i expected. My biggest complain is that the story felt a bit cramped and at least 2 more episodes would have given the show more air to breath but the show put the "punk" back into cyberpunk so i am happy overall. The action focused movie look fun too and i could use an OVA miniseries to close off if the direction of season 2 is followed up upon.