A Japanese anime feature about a crew of bounty hunters operating outside the law in the year AD 2071.

The graphics are tasty; they combine a weird-and-wonderful sense of strangeness with the raw immediacy of a live-action thriller.

The only problem for me was that the plot failed to grab the attention the way the visuals did: a very involved storyline about terrorists and a biological weapon went on at least a half-hour too long. But for many it will be worth seeing, if only for the startling, distinctive look of the film.