A tribute to comic books, but two-dimensional in all the wrong ways.
Rating: **
Creator: Lewis Hudson (http://www.youtube.com/HudsonCreations)
Distributed by: Machinima.com (http://www.machinima.com/)
Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s511cH_hoM
An interesting concept, Accountable attempts to marry machinima with the motion comic. Text boxes replace voice overs and speech bubbles pop up during dialogue, it's a nice touch, with an official looking font and a collection of atmospheric 'panels' which show us Hudson knows his comics and the general pacing of the medium.
It is just a shame that for all its stylistic tweaks the substance of the story and the writing are so weak, mangled lines like: "*Sigh* I can only embrace my artificial fate." and "I do plan for you to experience artificial fate" are just the tip of the iceberg. The writing is phenomenally bad. The story doesn't make any sense, the hero's (?) motivation/revenge is ridiculous and his moral compass is spinning 360 throughout. As an experimentation in machinima production it's an interesting concept and one which could prove fruitful, but as a self-contained story its something of a penny dreadful.
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