009 Re: Cyborg

2012 [JAPANESE]

Action / Animation / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 646 646

cyborg nuclear missile futuristic terrorism based on manga

Plot summary

009 Re:Cyborg follows a group of nine cyborgs, each of them created by a shadowy organization for use as weapons against humanity. The group turns on their creators to protect the population instead, using the powers given them to fight their creators.

Director

Kenji Kamiyama Photo
Kenji Kamiyama

Top cast

Shinnosuke Tachibana Photo
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Samuel Kline
Mitsuhiro Sakamaki Photo
Mitsuhiro Sakamaki as Additional Voices
Dave B. Mitchell Photo
Dave B. Mitchell as Albert Heinrich / Cyborg 004
Sakiko Tamagawa Photo
Sakiko Tamagawa as Ivan Whisky / Cyborg 001
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
952.05 MB
1280*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 2
1.91 GB
1916*1078
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by slowcando 7 / 10

Great setpieces, philosophical dialogue, jumbled hazy narrative

I didn't know anything about this but bought the 3D-Bluray on a whim as I enjoy good fantastical anime (Akira, Attack on Titan) and the 3D-experience.Worth it!The very first scene has a spectacular setpiece with skyscrapers crashing down after a bomb attack. We're then quickly thrust into a story which appears to already be in the middle of it. I gather Cyborg 009 is a series, or series of movies? Not sure, but it does feel like this particular movie isn't the first entry.Despite not knowing the background I still quickly got a grasp of setting & characters. Alongside the fine action I also appreciated the quieter dialogue-heavy sections, which touches upon the idea of 'God' and free will. While not exactly original, the ideas were well presented. Also these moments had sometimes quite striking imagery and dynamic visual angles.However the film does stumble with its narrative: what is happening, and why, is asked but never satisfactorily explored. The musings about how characters interpret motive isn't enough, we still would like a coherent plot-resolution.Overall I rate this a good 7/10, as the action & visuals make it a fun experience. 3D is effective. Japanese voice-cast are immersive. Subs are well-written.Recommended.
Reviewed by Kang-9129 6 / 10

More a fan letter to Oshii than a Cyborg 009 film

Re:Cyborg is a very strange film with a convoluted plot that is basically nonsensical without context, that context being that director Kenji Kamiyama is a pupil and also huge fanboy of the legendary Mamoru Oshii, and that the story of Re:Cyborg is loosely based on the unused ideas Oshii had for the cancelled Lupin movie he was supposed to direct in 1985.Re:Cyborg uses a ton of elements from Oshii's canceled Lupin (the tower, the identity stuff, the voice, the angel, etc.) and as a result is not even trying to be a coherent story in itself. Rather, it is an Oshii fan film masquerading as a Cyborg 009 movie.The mysterious elements taken from Oshii's films are indeed very interesting, but Re:Cyborg offers no explanations for them. It feels like Kamiyama just wanted to go "Oshii thought of this stuff, isn't it cool and crazy? Wow!". He's not wrong, that stuff is in fact cool and crazy. But in the end this just doesn't feel like a real movie as a result.
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