MFKZ...
As soon as I had heard about this feature, I couldn't NOT watch MFKZ...
MFKZ follows the misadventures of Angelino as he looks for love and his next meal in the urban jungle. Shortly after finding the love of his life, Angelino finds himself in a dark conspiracy as police and various thugs go on the hunt for Angelino and his friends as they find themselves portrayed in the media as terrorists. With a great many guns, there is, of course, quite a bit of red ink on exhibit including close-up head shots, knife-work, gun-play and more than a few bloody bodies, dripping with lots of red ink. The art style has an almost Plympton-esqe feel to it -- with exaggerated characters, over-the-top action, dark humor and an overall gritty texture. I thoroughly enjoyed MFKZ and would give MFKZ a 4 out of 5.
Featuring the voices of Michael Chiklis (The Shield, American Horror Story), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, The Usual Suspects), Jorge Gutierrez (The Book of Life, Son of Jaguar), Dascha Polanco (Orange is the New Black, Joy), RZA, Vince Staples, and Danny Trejo (Machete, Predators).
Genre-mashup MFKZ is the collaboration of French comic artist Guillaume _Run_ Renard and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4C, creators of Tekkonkinkreet, Genius Party and Mind Game. The Tekkonkinkreet dream team of Shojiro Nishimi and art director Shinji Kimura reunite to bring to life a dark but stunningly animated sci-fi vision that mixes anime, film noir, and Lucha Libre in an orgy of video game-inspired mayhem.
The film centers on young Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinz, who live in a seedy tenement in an LA-inspired dystopian metropolis -- a burnt-out, gang and cockroach-ridden neo-urban hell. Following a scooter accident Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as fits of rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins.
MFKZ follows the misadventures of Angelino as he looks for love and his next meal in the urban jungle. Shortly after finding the love of his life, Angelino finds himself in a dark conspiracy as police and various thugs go on the hunt for Angelino and his friends as they find themselves portrayed in the media as terrorists. With a great many guns, there is, of course, quite a bit of red ink on exhibit including close-up head shots, knife-work, gun-play and more than a few bloody bodies, dripping with lots of red ink. The art style has an almost Plympton-esqe feel to it -- with exaggerated characters, over-the-top action, dark humor and an overall gritty texture. I thoroughly enjoyed MFKZ and would give MFKZ a 4 out of 5.
