Jean-Phillipe

I like this film and was prepared to REALLY like this film, but the copious amounts of gore are not only over the top, and completely unnecessary, but extremely distracting as well.

The nostalgic feel was good, the characters were campy and two dimensional, but decent enough. The character of Apple saved this movie from being a total loss. I wish they had developed the relationship even more and told us more about Apple's back story.

That being said, Apple was THE saving grace in a landscape of desolate, gross, gory shtick. Kudos to Laurence Leboeuf! I don't know why they thought adding more gore was a good thing, it was just too much. A little goes a long way, less is more, and not everything needs more cowbell so to speak. 1 star for the nostalgia and 4 stars for Apple. 5/10.

As a huge fan of cinema, arthouse, foreign, mainstream, and everything in-between, it's rare for me to come across something that captures my imagination and pulls my full being into its world, but Copenhagen Cowboy has done just that. I'm a cinephile and have seen thousands of films. First of all, I love David Lynch and have seen most if not all of his movies and tv productions. I think Lost Highway is genius and I've watched Dune three times. That said, Refn has managed to "out Lynch" the great David Lynch with this series. If we don't get acts 2 and 3, it will be a crime and a shame. I loved everything about Copenhagen Cowboy, and then when I watched Nightcall, a 27-minute description (not a making of) which details how they brought CC to life, including interviews with the many first time actors who were "street cast" in major roles, I loved it even more.

So if you love cinema like I do, watch this series alone at night, settle in with your favorite apéritif, and enjoy. It is absolutely brilliant.

Great concept, awesome music, and at times fairly decent anime art, but the entire package of the story and characters was severely lacking. I wasn't emotionally invested in any of the characters. Therefore, I didn't care what happened to them. The MacGuffin was rather convoluted and not fully executed either.

That being said. My main concern with this anime series doesn't have to do with any of that though. The main problem is the vastly overrated opinions and bloated hyperbole associated with the fan base. I have watched a ton of Japanese anime in my life. It would be an understatement to say, even A LOT. And if Cyberpunk Edgerunners is now considered "Anime of the Year", the culture, the art form, and the genre itself is poorer for it.

I don't want to mention other anime in comparison to this series because there are no comparisons. It would be disrespectful of those classics. I also have no intention of legitimizing this series as being one on the level of obvious masterpiece works. Cyberpunk is not that.

What I will say is, if this is what the new modern generation of fans puts forth as a "best ever" or "greatest" then we as true anime fans have entered into an era of the degradation of the art form. It is lamentable, and if we don't resist we will continue to receive a weaker and less intelligent artistic experience.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners was just ok, 6/10 at best, and I'm being generous. If I were being salty and spiteful I would give it 1 star, but as I'm being honest, I've rated it appropriately. It has been the roar from the lowest common denominator that makes this anime cringey and scary. I sincerely hope Japanese anime studios don't allow the world to co-opt the genre and run it into the ground.