A lean man with silver-white hair, in a dark suit, lights a cigarette on a high walkway at night above a walled city of towers and temple roofs, a giant figure of light standing among the towers. — Latimer, about 250 years before season 1: Takeshi Kovacs in a military-grade sleeve, under the name Ken Kakura.

Altered Carbon · Netflix anime film · 2020

Resleeved

About two and a half centuries before the series, Takeshi Kovacs is needlecast into a new body on the planet Latimer to guard a teenage tattooist inside a yakuza clan whose bosses die by their own tattoos.

Altered Carbon: Resleeved is the franchise’s only film: a 74-minute Japanese anime feature, a spin-off of Netflix’s live-action series, released worldwide on Netflix on 19 March 2020, three weeks after the series’ second season. Studio Anima made it in 3D computer animation lit and outlined to look like traditional anime. It was directed by Jō Nakajima (also romanized Takeru) and Yoshiyuki Okada and written by Dai Satō and Tsukasa Kondō, with characters designed by the manga artist Yasuo Ōtagaki; Tatsuhisa Suzuki voices Kovacs in Japanese and Ray Chase in the English dub.

It is set on the planet Latimer about 250 years before season 1 — the Japanese announcement says 250; Screen Rant and Wikipedia count 253, which puts it in 2131 — after the series’ massacre at Stronghold and before CTAC catches Kovacs and puts his stack on ice. Kovacs is hired to guard a teenage tattooist inside the yakuza clan that rules the planet, and to find out how his employer’s brother died.

It adapts no novel. It is an original story in the series’ continuity — the show’s Reileen, its CTAC, its Tanaseda — furnished from Richard K. Morgan’s books: stacks and sleeves, needlecast, real death, an Envoy for hire, a world the novels name in passing. The aside below sorts out which is which.

Act 1

The Bon

The film opens on a sprawling city of towers with hologram women as tall as the buildings standing among them, and a club DJ quoting Shakespeare on all the world being a stage; the film’s climax is played on one. A teenage girl, Holly, runs from two hulking men and into a lift. The city is on Latimer, an Earth colony ruled by a yakuza syndicate, the Mizumoto, and the men are her own Mizumoto bodyguards, trying to bring the clan’s tattooist home. In a dance-club compound called the Bon a tech ninja kills them both. A close-up catches a tattoo on Holly’s hand; she keeps it covered for most of the film.

In the same club, in the middle of the dance floor, a naked man is decanted into a new body. It is Takeshi Kovacs, needlecast to Latimer into a military-grade sleeve with heightened reflexes, under the name Ken Kakura: East Asian, silver-haired, fast. Within minutes of waking he is fighting the ninja off the girl.

His employer briefs him in virtual. Hideki Tanaseda, boss of the Tanaseda clan, wants Holly protected and wants to know how his younger brother, a Mizumoto man, died; the fee is Kovacs’s record on Harlan’s World, wiped clean. Holly, who objects loudly to being the bait, keeps being muted. Tanaseda mentions that it is a year since Reileen was, supposedly, killed with Quell at Stronghold, and Kovacs believes both women dead. The new sleeve is a heavy smoker, and it smokes even here:

“The hand always remembers.”

Holly slips away and runs straight into Gena, an officer of CTAC who is investigating a planned coup inside the Mizumoto and wants Holly as a witness. Kovacs catches up, CTAC reinforcements arrive, and in a narrow passage tech ninjas step out from behind fake holographic walls the group has just walked past. Gena’s whole unit dies. In these fights her bullets do nothing to the ninjas, and Kovacs’s big revolver, with its armour-piercing loads, does. When it is over only the three of them are standing, and Holly names who sent the killers: Shinji, the Mizumoto’s next boss, who is planning a coup. Gena reluctantly agrees to team up, protecting Holly and using her to get inside the clan. Kovacs sums up his week: “C-TAC and tech ninjas? This is the worst job ever.”

A teenage girl in a dark jacket runs down a neon-washed corridor of black glass past the open doors of a lit lift, two big men in dark suits far behind her. — **R · 1 The Girl in the Lift** The film opens on Latimer, an Earth colony ruled by a yakuza syndicate, the Mizumoto. A teenage girl, Holly, runs from two hulking men into a lift and on into a club, the Bon. They are her own bodyguards, sent to bring the clan’s tattooist home, and a tech ninja is about to kill them both. A close-up catches a tattoo on her hand; for most of the film she keeps it covered.

On a dark dance floor, a lean, bare-chested man with silver-white hair rises from a crouch inside a column of pale light while couples dance in silhouette around the ring. — **R · 2 Decanted on the Dance Floor** In the middle of the Bon’s dance floor — the club has its own needlecasting facility — a naked man is decanted into a new body. It is Takeshi Kovacs, needlecast to Latimer into a military-grade sleeve with heightened reflexes, under the name Ken Kakura. He has had the body for minutes when the tech ninja moves in on Holly, and he fights him off. Kovacs wears a different body in every book; here he wears yet another.

In a pale golden virtual room, a silver-haired man in a dark suit holds a cigarette as an older man with a grey-streaked ponytail talks to him, a teenage girl protesting between them. — **R · 3 The Hand Always Remembers** His employer briefs him in virtual: Hideki Tanaseda, boss of the Tanaseda clan. Protect Holly, he says, and find out how his younger brother died; the fee is Kovacs’s record on Harlan’s World, wiped. Holly, who objects to being bait, is simply muted. Tanaseda mentions that Reileen, as far as Kovacs knows, died with Quell at Stronghold a year ago. The new sleeve is a heavy smoker and smokes even here: “The hand always remembers.”

In a neon-lit back alley at night, a silver-haired man with a heavy revolver and a woman in grey armour with a rifle stand back to back over a crouching teenage girl as two hooded assassins appear against the walls on either side. — **R · 4 The Hologram Walls** Holly slips away and runs straight into Gena, a CTAC officer who is investigating a planned coup inside the Mizumoto and wants Holly as a witness. Kovacs catches up, CTAC reinforcements arrive, and tech ninjas step out from behind holographic walls the group has just passed. Gena’s unit dies. Kovacs and Gena finish the ninjas, and Holly names who sent them: Shinji, the clan’s next boss. “C-TAC and tech ninjas? This is the worst job ever.”

Act 2

The Wild Geese

The Mizumoto’s headquarters is the Wild Geese, the oldest luxury hotel on Latimer, run by a holographic AI butler named Ogai. He remarks that Holly has gone out again, asks whether the guests have reservations or will only be dining, and mentions the karaoke. Kovacs asks Holly to switch him off. Only the current boss, Genzo, can do that.

Shinji arrives, relieved that Holly is alive. When one of his men shows Kovacs disrespect, Shinji cuts off the man’s finger and offers it to Kovacs; when Kovacs declines, Shinji tucks the finger into the man’s pocket. He gives Kovacs and Gena, Holly’s bodyguards now, the hotel’s most expensive room.

In the clan’s tattoo room Holly goes on inking Shinji’s succession tattoo while Genzo explains the Mizumoto code to Kovacs. Tanaseda is the son of the syndicate’s Founder. At every succession the outgoing boss is killed — real death, stack and all — by a death program built into his tattoo, so that the clan is always more than any one man.

Gena makes her report to CTAC, and the call tells the audience what Kovacs does not know: she is Reileen Kawahara, his sister, in a sleeve he does not recognize. Kovacs makes his own report to Tanaseda, who cannot believe that his father, too selfish for any such code, would ever have given his life for it, and orders Kovacs to keep Holly safe until the succession. The clan’s codes and courtesies wear on Kovacs all film long: “Japanese culture! Do I have to do this every time?”

In a grand old hotel lobby of dark timber and round paper lanterns, a softly glowing hologram of a grey-haired man in formal Japanese dress bows to a silver-haired man, a woman in grey armour and a teenage girl. — **R · 5 The Wild Geese** The clan’s headquarters is the Wild Geese, the oldest luxury hotel on Latimer, and it has a host: Ogai, a holographic butler who notes that Holly has gone out again, asks whether the guests have reservations or will only dine, and mentions the karaoke. Kovacs asks Holly to switch him off; only the boss, Genzo, can. Viewers of the series know the type, the Raven’s Poe, and in the English dub Ogai speaks with Poe’s voice.

In a lamplit room of dark wood and paper screens, a teenage girl works a tattoo needle over a carp design on the bare shoulder of a seated man in a white suit, while a tall, heavy bearded man in a kimono and a silver-haired man in a suit look on. — **R · 6 The Succession Tattoo** In the clan’s tattoo room Holly works on Shinji’s succession tattoo while the current boss, Genzo, explains the Mizumoto code to Kovacs. Tanaseda is the son of the syndicate’s Founder. At every succession a death program in the outgoing boss’s tattoo kills him, real death, stack and all, so that the clan is always more than one man. Told of it, Tanaseda cannot believe his selfish father would ever have lived by it.

In a dim, luxurious hotel room at night, a woman in grey armour stands half turned toward a tall window, looking down at a small glowing panel in her hands. — **R · 7 A Sister in Another Sleeve** Shinji, relieved that Holly is alive, gives her new bodyguards, Kovacs and Gena, the hotel’s most expensive room — after cutting off a finger from one of his own men for disrespecting Kovacs. There Gena reports to CTAC, and the call tells the audience what Kovacs does not know: she is Reileen Kawahara, his sister, the woman he believes died at Stronghold, in a sleeve he has never seen. Making Reileen his sister was the series’ idea.

Act 3

Siege of the hotel

Kovacs finds Holly watching an old memory: her parents’ sleeves being murdered. Their stacks were never destroyed, and she needs the Mizumoto to help her find them. Shinji, meanwhile, is furious that his ninjas failed to kill a kid. Without Holly no one can run the tattoo’s death program, so he would never face real death and could stay boss for ever. He sends another team.

On the way to see Genzo, under a large yakuza escort, Holly, Kovacs and Gena are attacked by two ninjas in bulletproof armour, who kill every guard and stab Gena before she and Kovacs kill them. More follow. The three run to Ogai, who first calculates whether the damage will exceed the hotel’s insurance and then, because Holly is his friend, switches on the building’s defences. Rotary guns in the lobby fire a hail of drill-tipped arrows that seem to bounce off the ninjas’ armour, then burrow in and explode.

Holly tells them that a former tattooist, Margot, created the death-ritual tattoos. Back in their room, Gena hears Kovacs singing the Patchwork Man song from their Harlan’s World childhood and knows him for her brother. She does not tell him. She urges him to drop the job rather than die for it; he means to finish it. Then she goes to work alone: she lures the hotel’s head of security to her room and kills him for his all-access pass, and she turns up evidence that Holly’s parents’ stacks are held by the clan’s Founder himself. Kovacs, reporting to Tanaseda, mentions Genzo’s laugh. Tanaseda recognizes something in it and gives new orders, and what Kovacs finds confirms his suspicion.

In a dark room, a teenage girl sits on the floor hugging her knees before a pale golden projection of a man and a woman in a doorway, while a silver-haired man watches from the door. — **R · 8 The Old Memory** Kovacs finds Holly watching an old memory: her parents’ sleeves being murdered. Their stacks were never destroyed, and she needs the Mizumoto’s help to find them. Meanwhile Shinji, furious that his ninjas failed to kill a kid, sends more. Without Holly no one can run the tattoo’s death program, so he would never face real death and could rule the clan for ever.

In a grand lantern-lit hotel lobby, guns on jointed arms lowered from the ceiling fire a hail of arrows at two crouching hooded assassins, while a silver-haired man crouches in front of a teenage girl and an armoured woman and a glowing hologram butler raises one hand, calm. — **R · 9 The Hotel Defends Itself** On the way to see Genzo, two ninjas in bulletproof armour kill the yakuza escort and stab Gena; she and Kovacs kill them, but more come. The three run to Ogai, who first works out whether the damage would exceed the hotel’s insurance and then, because Holly is his friend, wakes the building. Rotary guns in the lobby fire drill-tipped arrows that seem to bounce off the ninjas’ armour, then burrow in and explode. The Raven had guns too.

In a dim hotel room at night, a silver-haired man with his sleeves pushed up sits by a window, eyes closed and head tipped back, singing quietly to himself with a cigarette, while a woman in grey armour stands across the room, watching him. — **R · 10 The Patchwork Man** Back in their room Kovacs sings to himself, the Patchwork Man song from their Harlan’s World childhood, and Gena knows him: he is her brother. She doesn’t say so. She tells him to drop the job rather than die for it; he means to finish it. Then she works alone: she kills the hotel’s head of security for his all-access pass, and turns up evidence that Holly’s parents’ stacks are held by the clan’s Founder himself.

Act 4

Succession day

Ogai runs the day’s fireworks, and Holly takes a photograph of Kovacs and Gena in the lobby. A firework, a short blackout, and Holly is gone. Shinji sees his chance and orders the ninjas to kill all three of them. Then Genzo comes to Shinji and says the succession must happen early, and Holly, behind him, drugs Shinji unconscious. Shinji’s mind is wiped and Genzo’s stack goes into his body. Elsewhere in the hotel ninjas surround Kovacs, Gena and a squad of yakuza guards, and Kovacs promises the yakuza the truth once they have won.

On the succession stage, before a crowd attending by hologram, Genzo’s tattoo activates and kills him, body and stack. The body is already an empty shell. Tanaseda speaks up from among the hologram audience and says what it means: Shinji and Genzo are the same man, his father, the Founder, who has overwritten each new boss’s stack for generations, taking their bodies and their lives. Did he kill his other son too? On the Founder’s order Ogai shuts the audience out, and the ceremony goes on.

The Founder catches Holly trying to set off the tattoo’s destruction program: “Did you just attempt to activate the stack destruction protocol?” She tells him she knows he holds her parents’ stacks. He takes them out and destroys them.

On a lantern-lit ceremonial stage, a tall bearded man in a kimono sinks to his knees as a man in a white suit stands over him, and among an audience of pale glowing figures an older man rises and points. — **R · 11 The Empty Shell** Succession day. A firework, a blackout, and Holly is gone. Genzo tells Shinji the succession must come early, and Holly drugs him; his mind is wiped and Genzo’s stack goes into his body. On the stage, before a crowd present by hologram, Genzo’s tattoo kills him, but the body is already empty. Then Tanaseda speaks up from among the holograms and says it: Shinji and Genzo are one man, his father, the Founder, who has taken each new boss’s body for generations.

On an emptied lantern-lit stage, a man in a white suit holds up a small metal cylinder in each hand before a teenage girl, who stares at them. — **R · 12 Two Stacks** On the Founder’s order Ogai shuts the audience out, and the ceremony goes on. The Founder catches Holly trying to set off the tattoo’s destruction program: “Did you just attempt to activate the stack destruction protocol?” She tells him she knows he is holding her parents’ stacks. He takes the two of them out and destroys them in front of her. What she has been searching for is gone for good.

Act 5

The Founder’s armour

The yakuza reach the ceremony with Kovacs and Gena, and now they know everything, so the Founder decides to kill them all and start over. Backstage he puts on samurai-styled powered armour, cuts down the yakuza detail and outmatches Kovacs and Gena both. As her brother is about to be killed Gena shouts “Tak!” — a name Gena has no business knowing — and he rallies. Holly begs Ogai for help, but his programming will not let him act against the syndicate’s head, and Shinji is now the boss. Then Tanaseda arrives in person and gives Ogai proof that the mind in Shinji’s sleeve is not Shinji. Ogai turns the ceremony’s firework devices on the Founder and brings the stage down on him.

Weakened, the Founder still fights. With Gena’s help Kovacs stabs him and wrecks the armour, and a long, bare-knuckle brawl ends with the old man’s arms and legs broken. Holly activates the tattoo. Dying slowly, the Founder begs his son for help, and Tanaseda shoots his stack: a quick real death instead of a slow one.

Gena’s orders from CTAC were to get rid of Holly. She reports her mission complete and lets the girl go. Kovacs has Ogai delete Holly’s photograph, and Gena agrees, with a moment’s regret as it goes. She leaves, passing her brother at the door; he looks at her with suspicion, because she called him Tak, but he still does not know her. Ogai calls Holly by her real name, Margot, and asks whether, now that she is growing taller, she would like a younger sleeve as usual; she has kept herself young since the first boss’s time. She declines. She will grow up in this one, so that Ken and Gena will recognize her when they meet again. Tanaseda has more jobs for Kovacs before his record is cleared, and the film ends on a question: “Where is the next mission?”

Burning lanterns and beams fall from a collapsing stage canopy amid fireworks as a figure in dark samurai-style armour is forced to one knee holding up a beam, while a silver-haired man in a torn white shirt crouches with a knife and an armoured woman shields her head. — **R · 13 The Stage Comes Down** The yakuza arrive knowing everything, and the Founder decides to kill them all and start over. In samurai-styled powered armour he cuts down the yakuza who come for him and outmatches Kovacs and Gena; as her brother is about to die, Gena shouts “Tak!”, a name she should not know. Ogai cannot act against the clan’s head until Tanaseda arrives with proof that the mind in Shinji’s body is not Shinji. Then the hotel turns its fireworks on the Founder and drops the stage on him.

Amid the wreckage of a stage, an older man in a dark suit looks down at a broken man in torn white clothes lying among splintered beams, a pistol held low at his side. — **R · 14 A Son’s Mercy** Weakened, the Founder still fights. With Gena’s help Kovacs stabs him and wrecks the armour, and a long, brutal fist fight ends with the old man’s arms and legs broken. Holly triggers the tattoo she inked. Dying slowly, the Founder begs his son for help, and Tanaseda gives him the only help there is: a shot to the stack, real death, quick. Gena, ordered to get rid of Holly, reports her mission complete and lets her go.

In a quiet hotel lobby in morning light, a glowing hologram butler bows his head toward a teenage girl, while a woman in grey armour stands at the tall open doors beside a silver-haired man with a cigarette. — **R · 15 Grow Up in This Sleeve** Kovacs has Ogai delete the photograph Holly took of him and Gena in the lobby, and Gena, with a moment’s regret, agrees. She leaves, passing him at the door; he looks after her, because she called him Tak. Then Ogai calls Holly by her real name, Margot, the tattooist who made the death tattoos, and asks whether she would like a younger sleeve, as usual. No: she will grow up in this one, so that Ken and Gena will know her when they meet again.

What it borrows from the books

An original story, not an adaptation. Netflix’s Japanese announcement promised a new story that expands the world; Wikipedia credits both Morgan’s novel Altered Carbon and the Netflix series as sources. Its continuity is the series’ — the show’s Reileen, its CTAC, its Tanaseda — and its furniture is the books’. No part in it for Morgan was reported.
The technology. Stacks, sleeves and resleeving drive the whole plot, which turns on a stack moved from one body to another; Kovacs reaches Latimer by needlecast into a waiting sleeve, the way Envoys travel in the books; and the Mizumoto price of succession is real death, the books’ term for death with no backup. Reviews call him the last Envoy.
The body remembers. The Ken Kakura sleeve’s craving for cigarettes is the joke of Altered Carbon, whose Ryker sleeve comes with a smoker’s lungs.
Latimer is a world the novels name in passing. In Altered Carbon Ortega mentions the Vatican-financed cryoships to Starfall and Latimer, and Kovacs replies that he has been to Latimer (p. 18). In Broken Angels it is the neighbouring system: Hansen was shipped in from Latimer, the Carrefour Brotherhood is on Latimer, and the survivors’ last eleven-year transit is to the Latimer system. In Woken Furies it is where the new Martian machine-interface industry took off (p. 34), and Kovacs has lately come home from there. The film gives the name a walled city, a yakuza government and an old hotel.
Tanaseda is a books’ name first: the Millsport yakuza senior of Woken Furies, who treats the young Yukio Hirayasu almost as a nephew. The film takes him by way of season 2, where Tanaseda Hideki is a yakuza elder and one of Harlan’s World’s Founders, and gives him a father, the Mizumoto Founder, and a dead younger brother.
The Patchwork Man is the Harlan’s World bogeyman of Altered Carbon, the threat Kovacs’s father used on him, and Kovacs’s name for the many-bodied assassin Kadmin. The series made it a story the child Tak and Reileen read together (season 1, episode 3); the film makes it a song he still sings, and the thing that gives him away to his sister.
From the series, not the books: Reileen Kawahara as Kovacs’s sister, sold to the yakuza as a child and the betrayer of Stronghold — here, unusually, on his side, a CTAC officer who spares the girl she was sent to remove (book I’s Kawahara is a crime lord he knew on New Beijing, no relation); “Tak”; CTAC itself; and Ogai, a Japanese Poe, voiced in English by Poe’s actor, Chris Conner, with lobby guns like the Raven’s. Den of Geek found the hire built to imitate the earlier stories: a Meth luring the last Envoy with a military-grade sleeve to find out what happened to his brother, much as Bancroft hires Kovacs to solve his own murder.
Tech ninjas are a book I phrase: for the raid on Head in the Clouds Kovacs wears a “tech ninja sleeve” (p. 318), “the body I’d dreamed about having at fifteen” (p. 179). The film turns the phrase into a hooded assassin corps that answers to Shinji.
Invented for the film: the Mizumoto clan’s rule of Latimer, the Bon and the Wild Geese, the succession tattoo and the Founder’s centuries of body-swapping, Holly who is really Margot, Ogai himself, Genzo, Shinji, the ninja corps and the alias Ken Kakura. The full comparison of books and screen is on Books vs. the series.

Continuity notes

Kovacs ends alive on Latimer in the Ken Kakura sleeve, his Harlan’s World record not yet cleared and Tanaseda holding more jobs for him. By the film’s dating this falls between the series’ Stronghold massacre and his capture by CTAC, the start of his long storage in season 1; the sources disagree on the gap (three years, says Screen Rant; decades, says SYFY Wire).
Gena, who is Reileen, leaves alive, her mission reported complete, knowing her brother; he only suspects. Season 1, about 250 years on, finds her a Meth and his enemy.
Holly, who is Margot, keeps her teenage sleeve and means to grow up in it; her parents’ stacks are destroyed.
The Founder dies a real death in Shinji’s body, shot in the stack by his son; Shinji’s own mind was erased and Genzo’s body died on the stage. Gena’s CTAC unit, the yakuza escort, the yakuza who went after the Founder backstage, the head of security and the tech ninjas sent against them are dead. Ogai still runs the Wild Geese.
Tanaseda survives; season 2 finds him old on Harlan’s World, a Founder there, and Quell kills him.

Notes

Making it. Netflix unveiled the project on 8 November 2018 at See What’s Next: Asia in Singapore, its first content showcase in the region, already naming Anima and the two writers, and announced a production partnership with Anima in March 2019; the director and a spring 2020 debut followed in October 2019, and the key art, cast and trailer on 10 March 2020. The 3D animation was lit and outlined to read as traditional anime: hard key light and shadow, a hard rim light, drawn outlines. A muscle-driven facial rig let animators sculpt Ōtagaki’s intense expressions, with wrinkles and sweat carrying the emotion. Anima counted 72 minutes and 1,058 shots, 747 of them its own. The film won the VFX-JAPAN Award 2021 for best work in TV and streaming anime CG.
Names and credits. The director’s given name, 丈, is romanized Jō by Anime News Network and Takeru in Wikipedia’s infobox and on Rotten Tomatoes. Music is credited to MONACA in the Japanese announcement and to Keigo Hoashi and Kuniyuki Takahashi on Wikipedia. Japanese voices: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Kovacs), Rina Satō (Gena), Ayaka Asai (Holly), Jōji Nakata (Ogai), Kenji Yamauchi (Tanaseda), Kanehira Yamamoto (Shinji), Kōji Ishii (Genzo). English: Ray Chase, Elizabeth Maxwell, Brittany Cox, Chris Conner, Doug Stone, Kaiji Tang, Jamieson Price. Ogai’s name, 鴎外, is written like the pen-name of the Meiji novelist Mori Ōgai; the film does not say whether that is a nod.
Where it fits. Tightly, and not comfortably: by Screen Rant’s count the film falls a year after Stronghold and three years before CTAC catches Kovacs, and it makes the series’ Reileen, a yakuza enforcer turned Envoy turned traitor, a CTAC officer; one audience review on Rotten Tomatoes calls the film “full of canon breaking moments” for that. The club’s name, the Bon, is read by SYFY Wire as the Buddhist festival of the ancestors.
The look of this page. The frames are this walk’s own woodblock interpretations of the film’s moments, painted from descriptions, not the film’s 3D cel-shaded images. The research found no description of Holly, Gena, Shinji, Genzo, the film’s Tanaseda, Ogai or the hotel, so their looks here are the painter’s.
Reception was mixed: praise for the animation and the action, less for the characters and the exposition. Rotten Tomatoes has 60 per cent from five critics; IGN gave it 6/10 and called it “a diverting entry in the Takeshi Kovacs saga”; Den of Geek gave it 3.5/5 and noted how hopeful its ending is for so dark a franchise; Decider said stream it; Forbes’s Paul Tassi: “Its action soars, but its story and writing fall flat.” It is violent, with heavy gore. It was Netflix’s last Altered Carbon release; the live-action series was cancelled in 2020.

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