Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in a barren digital landscape, all to achieve points within the virtual reality video game called Avalon.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a $10,000 desktop wallpaper.
Score
Kenji Kawai goes absolutely feral on the synthesizers.
Practical Effects
Those sandwhale puppets deserved a better script.
Director
Mamoru Oshii
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot entirely in English despite being a Japanese production, then dubbed back into Japanese for domestic release. Chaos.
Oshii reportedly made this as a deliberate provocation after studio interference on Avalon, essentially saying 'you want marketable? Here's four hot people and explosions with no story.'
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