Review of Casshern Sins

Dissapointed with this. Such a pretty dvd package but the story let it down. I felt in the concluding instalments the writing was getting desperate to somehow bring it together. Suddenly " God" gets a mention and then the appalling pseudo scratchy live film footage of what looked like a japanese girl waving her arms above her head - wow- "high art"- lol- was that the producers daughter? But truly the terrible waste is made apparent by the failure of the music. There's is a rehash of the 3X3 Eyes mystery theme ( a great anime by the way) surely not the same music -i was stunned that it turned out to be the same composer - how about some new ideas... how cheap is that....
Looking at the first version-casshen robot hunter - the opening scene is still striking even though its dated now.And the marvelous narrators voice over by majel baret (english dub).and many other small jewels. Overall it It had an "X" factor which Casshern Sins does not. This work is too patchy, some beautiful imagery but too long, - a real shame - it leaves you feeling what a waste of resources and writing that ended up out of its depth. It could have been so much better.