Sin: The Movie (2000) (V)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Yasunori Urata

Writers:

Kensei Date (writer)
Ryoma Kaneko (writer)

Release Date:

24 October 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Anime

Cast

Markham Anderson	...	Colonel John Blade (voice)
Shelley Calene-Black	...	Jennifer "JC" Armack (voice)
Chris Patton	...	John "JC" Armack (voice)
Taylor Matthews	...	Elexis Sinclaire (voice)
Andy McAvin	...	Vincenzo Manchini (voice)
LaTeace Towns-Cuellar	...	Kait Palmer (voice) (as LaTeace Towns)
Vic Mignogna	...	Tim Perko (voice)
Danielle Kimball	...	Elyse Stewart (voice)
Ted Pfister	...	Lorenzo Vitello (voice)
David Parker	...	Dr. Daniel Greenwall (voice)
Jocelyn Donegan	...	Tina Vansant (voice)
Hilary Haag	...	Skycity Announcer, Mutant Elyse (voice)
Robert Vellani	...	Blade's Father (voice)
Jason Douglas	...	Hardcorps Commander / Cop 3 / SinTEK Executive (voice)
John Swasey	...	Cop 1, Dispatcher 1, SinTEK Executive (voice)

Runtime:

Australia:57 min | USA:60 min | UK:57 min

Country:

Japan | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R16 | UK:15

Trivia:

Although the animation was handled by a Japanese crew, the film was largely produced by US company ADV films, and as such, English is the original language for it.

Movie Connections:

Version of Sin (1998) (VG)

Quite a disappointment

I watched this on DVD and it looked really promising until the end of the opening credits. The prologue before the open credits was really interesting but it seemed to be the only part of the plot in which character was explored. The credits themselves looked vibrantly rendered (CG of course) and very swish indeed... I only wish that the film had come across so well.

From the odd pacing to the strange mix-and-match direction it was a bit of a let down. Though I like storylines that require one to engage brain, I believe this plot was poorly explained. Very little character history was explained and in some places the directorial disregard for chronological order fell short of artful and ended up at annoyingly ambiguous.

The backgrounds are really beautifully painted but in places there are computer graphic effects that fail to be integrated nicely into the cell shading. I cringed physically as I watched the Adobe lens flares fly across the screen and computer effects used where good simple animation would have done just fine.

If you want to enjoy this production I really suggest you check your brain at the door. Contains violence, explosions, mutants and a scantily clad evil bad girl... not really enough to save it, in my opinion. I won't rewatch it in a hurry.