There are no grey shadings in the film's visual palette to match the characters' more equivocal moralities, and the result is a dark, dark world occasionally exposed to the most harsh and unforgiving of lights.

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The movie radiates a dark, eerie, mysterious, otherworldly quality, yet it isn't enough to sustain over an hour and an half of story.

Renaissance is a victory of style over substance and technology over art, but to score a real win, the filmmakers need to strike a better balance between the two.

The style doesn't just overwhelm the substance, it makes it irrelevant.

Lacks a beating heart at its core. It's all about its technical aspects and sense of cool, and that's just not good enough.

While the story is not compelling, the style of the film is amazing.

A pic of true craftsmanship that dazzles until it wears out its welcome and becomes a drag.

If someone rips a page out of Sin City, Blade Runner, V for Vendetta and every other futuristic degradation of politics and corporations and no one is around to hear it, what is there to listen to?