Case Number 11732   Miramax // 2006 // 105 Minutes // Rated R
Reviewed by Judge Bill Gibron // July 23rd, 2007  The Charge
Paris 2054. Live forever or die trying  Opening Statement  What
would you get if film noir and science fiction had a pair of
twins, let's call them Sin City and Blade Runner, and somewhere
along the line these two precocious genre deconstructors ran off
to France and had a bastard inbred child? One suspects that the
cinematic freak would look a heck of a lot like Renaissance.
Hoping to take the art of animation to whole new technologically
savvy heights, but allowing its overcomplicated storyline to
frequently get in the way, what director Christian Volckman
creates here is quite amazing. At times, the film can literally
be seen as art in motion. Unfortunately, the speculative plot is
so reminiscent of previous future-shock private eye classics
that we feel a sense of prescient déjà vu.  Facts of the Case
It's 2054 and the planet has been devastated by some manner of
war. Paris is a pos