@Greg:
Someone call Peter Chung.
If anyone's interested,this what Peter Chung posted about the movie on Anipages Daily forums back in Sepetember of 2010:
I was given a screener by Masao Maruyama to review.
Redline directed by Takeshi Koike.
Comments by Peter Chung
2010-08-12
Takeshi Koike's Redline is a rare achievement in feature-length animation. It is a work of obsessive detail and compulsive creativity, a singular and uncompromising vision, presented with the highest level of production values that studio Madhouse can deliver.
That vision is at once demented, delirious, and decadent. It is hard-edged, hypnotic and hyperkinetic.
Everything on screen, from even the most minor character's costume, bodily accessory and anatomical shape, every geological formation and architectural scheme, and most especially, every piece of mobile machinery and the effects they produce, has been designed and animated to draw attention.
In the world of Redline, nothing looks the way it is expected to look, and nothing happens quietly.
Among its many memorable scenes: the depiction of every conceivable method of placing a driver at the controls of a vehicle, culminating in a montage of cybernetic interfaces jacking into the alien skulls of Roboworld's fetish-fashion-wearing republican guard.
It is the accumulation of such details that mark it as a rich work of true surrealism, using dislocation and mutation to cast skepticism on the logic of mundane reality. Redline exemplifies the very thirst for excess that it satirizes: by delivering an excess of speed, sound and sensation.
It is a vision so peculiar, and so specific, that over time, we surrender the need to comprehend and the film's agenda becomes clear: a trance-like state which has altered our perception of the world that only lets go when the lights come up. Redline is a hell of a ride, but proceed with caution.
http://www.pelleas.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=672&hilit=redline