Firstly, I love the way Tesla is honored in this movie. He gets too little credit for what he has done for our modern society, no thanks to Thomas Edison.
The story is, in my honest opinion, fairly simple. If you are a regular Japanese eiga fan, you would have realized who the villain is from the very beginning.
The CG in this movie is fair and not particularly impressive, but the movie uses it only as a secondary element. The only one I thought interesting was the way the faces/mask are removed.
The acting was as good as Japanese movies get. Most of the actors leading the movie are veterans after all. Only regret is that Matsu Takako didn't get enough screen time for being one of the pivotal characters.
I found myself comparing this movie to V for Vendetta. Alas, the similarities are quite striking in more than a few places. You can think of this as the making of the new titular hero.
The story is, in my honest opinion, fairly simple. If you are a regular Japanese eiga fan, you would have realized who the villain is from the very beginning.
The CG in this movie is fair and not particularly impressive, but the movie uses it only as a secondary element. The only one I thought interesting was the way the faces/mask are removed.
The acting was as good as Japanese movies get. Most of the actors leading the movie are veterans after all. Only regret is that Matsu Takako didn't get enough screen time for being one of the pivotal characters.
I found myself comparing this movie to V for Vendetta. Alas, the similarities are quite striking in more than a few places. You can think of this as the making of the new titular hero.