Much like the highly reverred "Ghost In The Shell," "Appleseed" was very pretty, but far too compacted to be easily comprehensible. Shirow's work, I've decided, is simply too dense to be condensed into a movie of a couple of hours. "Appleseed" as a movie was gorgeous to look at, but it didn't succeed in making the story quite as engaging as it should be. That and the voice dub was terrible. But it's still worth seeing.