Neither triumph nor disaster, the long-anticipated anime remake turns out to be a dark, moody sci-fi in a RoboCop-meets-Blade Runner vein – sombre to the point of glum, but visually stunning and commendably ambitious.
Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Keith David and David Gyasi (Red Tails) head a cast that interprets a visually stunning but over-ambitious epic.
Accompanied by music ranging from polyphonic choral harmonies to folksy minstrels, it's quite stunning, undoubtedly the most ambitious, and genuinely moving, piece of theatrical pop ever seen on a British stage.
While this ambitious, visually stunning work provides fertile ground for discussion on the appropriation of filmic technique as a means of questioning historical "truth", the socio-political narrative is overly complex.
It makes sense to start with the Restaurant at the Setai Hotel, not because it has the best food in town — it doesn't come close — but because the restaurant is so visually stunning, and features an ambitious and varied menu with competent, actually warm, service: not an easy thing to come by, perhaps especially in a transient community like this one.
Stanley Kubrick's seminal classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, progenated an ambitious and stunning vision of humankind's spacefaring future.
But it's unlikely that any of these productions are as ambitious as the stunning retelling by the Polish company Teatr Biuro Podrózy.
His stunning new enterprise is an ambitious work in progress, and he has already converted the second floor of an old plastics factory building into a lovely lofty restaurant (the Grill) and bar.
This ambitious survey presents a stunning diversity of objects that illustrate four approaches explored in the crafts field over the last half century.
Qatar's ambitious move was a stunning boost for Hamas, shunned by Israel, the US and western countries as a terrorist organisation.
