Altered Carbon: Resleeved
dir. Jō Nakajima (Netflix, 2020)
This anime film has obvious potential to explore the Japanese side of Takeshi Kovacs’ heritage, but instead ignores every subtlety of both his characterisation and the Altered Carbon universe, preferring a chunky, gore-laced computer-game playthrough, fed beak-to-beak to John Wick–starved hatchlings.