Casshern is like an attempt to make a live action anime or video game, highly stylised, every shot is like a picture frame, characters expound tediously for hours, violence is exaggerated to the point of fetishism.

It lacks any sense of coherence and characters turn out to have unpredictable motives or connections which just serve to make laboured, unsubtle points about war and humanity.

We should all try to get along, but only after we’ve single-handedly destroyed a CGI robot army.

It was certainly impressive at times but whoever made this needs to learn about editing, economy of script and action, and knowing that it isn’t always necessary to drench every single shot in filters, special effects, or interminable pauses.