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Hollywood Outbreak website wrote that 'thanks to the extensive motion and facial capture work on the project, the animation is a perfect balance of realism and science fiction-esque fantasy'.

#Alien squeed alpha movie#

Zac Bertschy from Anime News Network called it 'the most visually stunning Appleseed movie yet'. Others who are worthy are sure to follow.' When asked whether Deunan and Briareos should be brought to Olympus for their help, Hitomi explains instead: 'They're like apple seeds. Unknown to them, they have been closely observed by Olympus Officer Hitomi, Iris' human template. Briareos takes the shot, destroying both the fortress and Iris inside it.Īfter regrouping, Deunan and Briareos depart for Olympus, with Two Horns absolving them of their debts and Mattews gifting them the restored exosuit. To prevent countermeasures, Iris remains aboard and evicts Deunan from the fortress after revealing that she is a bioroid specifically created for this mission.

With Two Horns and Briareos' help, Deunan boards the superwalker and kills Talos, but in order to destroy the weapon, Briareos must snipe its power core.

Briareos duels and kills Nyx, but Deunan is too late to save Iris the fortress makes its way to the surface, but instead of following Talos' commands, it is hardwired on a suicide bombing mission against New York. Deunan and Briareos fight their way into the complex, supported by Two Horns, who is now out for revenge against Talos, and Mattews, who presents Deunan with a power amor suit.

In a secret underground bunker, Talos activates the superweapon - a giant, heavily armed mobile fortress - using Iris' retinal pattern. Briareos and Deunan find Olson's body, recover the information they need and follow Talos and Iris to the weapon's location. After brutally extracting the location of a prototype superweapon from Olson's memories, Talos murders him and takes Iris with him. When Two Horns finds and attacks them, Iris and Olson are captured by Talos. Talos is also an agent from Olympus who has developed a messiah complex and wants to use Iris to take control of these weapons. After recovering, Two Horns follows them to capture Iris and use her as a bargaining chip against Talos.Īs they travel together, Iris and Olson gradually reveal that they are from Olympus, on a mission to dispose of leftover weapons from the war. After questioning Two Horns, and then attempting to kill him, Talos puts Deunan and Briareos on his target list as well. Soon after, two cyborgs named Talos and Nyx, who are trailing Olson and Iris, appear, forcing Deunan and Briareos to depart with their new friends. Though initially reserved around each other, Olson discovers that Two Horns' mechanic Mattews has been deliberately crippling Briareos' systems to keep him and Deunan under Two Horns' thumb. One day, while eliminating rogue combat drones, Deunan and Briareos meet Olson, a cybernetics-equipped soldier, and a young girl named Iris. However, whenever they are close to finishing a job, they are sabotaged. In the 22nd century, after a devastating world war, veterans Deunan Knute and Briareos are living in the ruins of New York doing jobs for a cyborg despot named Two Horns, with Deunan hoping that once they've paid off their debt to him for fixing Briareos' war injuries, they can go find the legendary utopic city of Olympus, though Briareos is more pessimistic. A 2 volume prequel manga by Iou Kuroda was published in Morning Two in 2014.Īppleseed Alpha had an advance digital release on July 15, 2014. Briareos, for example, is already a cyborg and did not become separated from Deunan to be later reunited in Olympus to join ESWAT. This film does not follow the previous Appleseed movie canon it is an alternate version of the story's origins. It was announced on February 11, 2014, that Sony Pictures Worldwide and Lucent Pictures Entertainment would making a new CG-animated film. The English version's voice cast includes Luci Christian (Deunan Knute), David Matranga (Briareos) and Wendel Calvert (Two Horns). Appleseed Alpha (also styled as Appleseed α) is a computer-animated military science fiction cyberpunk film.