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There are some terrifically memorable moments well into the show, including a virtual torture sequence that's pretty unforgiving, and a tense elevator assault, and as the series crescendoes to its close over the last few episodes, the ante is increasingly upped until you're utterly gripped.
Nudity is rife, weapons are devastating, and the fight scenes are inventive - especially with the visual enhancement that Neura-chem offers - as well as brutal and unrelenting (and the Praetorians are brought to life like something out of a horror movie). The world-building is at times overwhelming, and will be particularly intimidating for those not familiar with the book, but Netflix don't hold back in the production costs, bringing the fantastic environments to life with stunning realisation - the cloud-bursting sky-towers, the brutal fight dome, the sleazy bars, the AI-run hotel (whose owner is cleverly developed way beyond the written page), and the hover cars patrolling the nights. Joel Kinnaman ( Suicide Squad, House of Cards) plays the recently re-sleeved Kovacs (although previous sleeves are played by the likes of Byron Mann, Will Yun Lee and Leonard Nam), who soon finds that there is far more beneath the surface of the otherwise presumed suicide of James Purefoy's ( Rome) decadent and seemingly immortal Lawrence Bancroft, negotiating the enhanced-sex wiles of Bancroft's bored wife Kristin Lehman ( The Killing), the aggressive intrusion of local law enforcement in the form of Martha Higareda's Detective Kristin Ortega (who gets a significant character expansion - even taking in a futuristic version of Dia de los Muertos), and the memories of both his idol, revolutionary leader Quellcrist Falconer (Renee Elise Goldsberry) and his sister, played by Dichen Lachman ( Agents of SHIELD, Supergirl), in both visions and flashbacks. If you've just finished watching Blade Runner 2049 and fancy a little more future noir, then you've come to the right place So go into Altered Carbon with jettisoned preconceptions and you're find instead a heavily entrenched classic noir narrative - essentially a wise-cracking private detective unwittingly embroiled in a complex mystery involving wealthy patrons, interfering cops, damsels in distress, femme fatales and a murder that everybody wants covered up - dressed up wonderfully in the new garb of a stunningly realised cyberpunk futurescape.Ĭlassic noir dressed up wonderfully in new cyberpunk. But those familiar with the source novel will know that it's only staying true to the written word, bringing the cortical stacks, sleeves, flechette gun, nemex gun, Meths, RDs, uprising, neura-chem, and total immersion to life like readers had only imagined up until now. Despite the genetic similarities between the two - there are only so many ways that a futurescape can be painted, and Altered Carbon trades in shades of everything from the Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell to Star Wars old and new when it comes to bringing its skytower, police hover cruisers, enhanced weaponry and imaginative tech to life. Trading in rampant future noir vibes, Altered Carbon will suffer for those who compare it too much to Blade Runner (particularly the 2049 sequel), despite the fact that it's those same fans who will come flocking to see more decent hard sci-fi brought to their screens.
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