Director: Brooke Burgess

Summary: Four strangers are drawn to a mysterious western town where their intersecting premonitions converge to hold the fate of the world.

The 12-hour saga follows four strangers who are drawn to a mysterious western town where their intersecting premonitions converge to hold the fate of the world. First launched online in 2001, this internet sensation is a dark animated tale of apocalyptic vision and noir-ish fascination. With a creepy aesthetic reminiscent of the SANDMAN comics, a fantastic score, and exceptional writing by creator Brooke Burgess, BROKEN SAINTS deserves the many accolades it has received.

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A remarkable achievement and thoroughly engrossing, Broken Saints: The Animated Comic Special is the complete 12-hour adventure series (in 24 chapters) originally posted online between 2001 and 2003. A combination of comic book graphics and Flash animation, Broken Saints features characters that don't move (as in a comic book) but exist in scenes that suggest flowing action simply by introducing additional images or shifting a background (thanks to Flash). Dialogue is rendered via conventional speech balloons, but for this DVD set, actors (including William B. Davis, the "Cigarette Smoking Man" from The X-Files) have been cast to provide voices for the characters, giving the story greater immediacy. Also new is a music score, featuring some muscular rock as well as Mozart. Loads of special features are included, too.

Created by Brooke Burgess, Ian Kirby, and Andrew West, Broken Saints is the complex tale of an unlikely alliance between four individuals from very different walks of life. Shandala is a mysterious, 18-year-old woman from an uncharted Fijian island, altruistic and innocent yet possessed of terrifying powers. Raimi is a young, Canadian developer of security software who encounters a powerful force online and believes something big is about to take place on the planet. Oran is a Muslim from Baghdad who goes temporarily mad while guarding a bunker alone. Kamimura is an elderly, Shinto mystic from Japan estranged from his former Buddhist order. The quartet is connected through common visions of dark forces about to be unleashed, though they also learn quite a bit about themselves and each other during their perilous mission. Watching this series from beginning to end is a special and unique experience. As the story progresses, the makers of Broken Saints get better and better at their mixed-media technology, and the results are often beautiful and profound. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	1.78
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary From The Creators,, Featurettes,, Trailers,, Press Interviews,, Fan Showcase,, Behind The Scenes Material,
Subtitles:	Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, French, German, Danish, Swedish
Year:	2001
Release Date:	August 21, 2006
Runtime:	720 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	3220301000
Keywords:	Animated, Broken, General, Four, Drama, Discs, Saints
Genre:	Drama