Galerians - Rion
As computers grow faster and cheaper, it's become possible to create full-length CG features likeGalerianson minimal budgets. It's not clear if that phenomenon is a good thing or a bad thing. This highly derivative, game-based film borrows heavily fromAkira, as well as theMatrixandTerminatormovies. Rion is a human being who's been genetically altered by Dorothy, a mad supercomputer that's trying to become a god. Rion's parents helped to create Dorothy, and left a special computer virus and its delivery system in his brain and in the brain of the hidden Lilia. Rion battles various foes as he  searches for Lilia, then they attack Dorothy together. Director Masahiko Maesawa tries to disguise just how limited the animation is with special effects and camera movements, but it's a losing battle. (Rated 13 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, nudity, alcohol, tobacco and drug use)--Charles Solomon