SamiCybertron What is flash? When people first think of flash they go to Newgrounds, where these days the only flash they have is just childish, immature & pointless specks of Animation of Singing dog turd, beheading celebrities & south park, It seriously looks like any form of Animation has no point anymore.Until...First came along something remarkable & unspeakable, something beautiful & outstanding beyond any measure. Around 2001, an outstanding achievement of perfection & dedication came along, a true figure of beauty and truth, and that was called...Broken Saints. The story of 4 strangers from the quiet corners of the planet, who receive an apocalyptic vision of a dark city in the west, where they have to then come together and bring forth the light and discover the truth of why they are summoned...Thats just the main plot, watch the rest and find out more.Brooke Burgess (the Creator & writer of the series), Andrew West (the lead artist) & Ian Kirby (the visual effects supervisor) have seriously brought together a masterpiece, a double sided piece of artwork with no flaw whatsoever and will bring the ultimate questions of life to a complete full circle... Why are we here? Does God exist? Where are we going? What is the meaning of life? Where are we from? When you watch this series, you would only need to do one thing...Think. About you're life, the people you know, what you have done and what you believe in and what you follow in life.You might think this is something tripped out, you might think you would need to take an absurd amount of drugs to watch this. When the truth is, you have to watch this and have a huge look at you're life and the world...Think. This is nothing well known, nothing too big and certainly nothing short of popularity...But this is special, and something you will need to watch. Also with an outstanding soundtrack composed by Tobias Tinker, the music shall provide the perfect mood to match the perfection of this double-sided piece of artwork.Along with the quotes and passages from some of the greatest authors, teachers, philosophers, musicians and scholars that the world has been blessed with...Each one of those passages speaks the word of truth.The voice actors also give the ultimate performances of their careers to bring this epic story to life, so that also shows that this is a special form of entertainment.I strongly advice you watch this series and you will learn something from its characters, homages to movies, Depth of brilliant writing & brilliant artwork...and Answer the ultimate question...What would you give to know the truth?

a05102267 If you like mystery, sci-fi and horror, you should take a look on "Broken saints" a unique and surreal animated series, being thrilling and emotional at the same time. After I saw the fist episode, I was captivated by the style used by Brooke Burgess: the music,the voices, the atmosphere, the use of colors, everything on "Broken Saints" fits very well with the dark tone of the series. The animation style is quite interesting:Like a comic, characters on the most part remain in static poses and dialogue is indicated by speech balloons. However, rather than exclusively using sequential panels, animated sequences are used to switch scenes and help advance the story, while some music and sound effects are included, lending a more cinematic experience than one would ordinarily achieve with a comic strip alone. And the result of all of this is "Broken Saints", a series that deserves more appreciation that it actually receives.I recommend this tittle to every animation fan.

Michael Field An interesting experiment but sophomoric and self-important. As Brooke Burgess implies, he has traveled the world and found the truth...now he seeks to enlighten us all with his vision.The writing is self indulgent and sophomoric, smarmy and preachy. It all boils down to love and God and religion and faith. BS. Just like the ending of The fifth Element, love solves everything. God is in us all. In the end we will see the light (it's all there in digital code), and the warriors will lay down their weapons and the Muslims will join with the Hebrews and Christians and Buddhists and get together and throw one big party. And the lamb shall lay down with the lion, but not without a bit of bloodshed first..,eh.The artwork is poor graphic novel style; I liked the scenes that were done in sketch work better than the stylized simplistic artwork that prevailed throughout the most of the movie. They call it flash animation but it was hardly animated.One episode of South park has more animation than the whole 12 hours or so of this movie and it's more realistic in the style.That all being said, this movie does stand up as a sci-fi kind of epic. The character developments are excellent and their interaction is well done especially the dynamic between Raimi and Oran. This was a grand experiment that the three creators conspired to. It is very geeky and was well received on the internet over the 3 or so years it unfolded. I suspect that this has a great deal to do with its current popularity; after all you don't follow a story, released piecemeal for 3 years, waiting eagerly from week to week to see the next segment, and then admit it wasn't worth the wait. The three creators, especially Brooke Burgess, are all waiting with their collective breaths held to see who will pick up their project and turn it into a movie or a TV series. They can taste the fortune. So much for altruism. With programming in this country (US) controlled by the likes of clear channel, it probably will be. For their sakes I hope that the writer and co-creators can keep their own vision intact, and not have to bow down to the almighty film industry and turn this into a more watered down and more preachy version.All in all this project was a success. I don't think it was deep and life changing as many would have you believe; but it was entertaining...it had to be to keep me entertained for the whole 12 or so hours.I recommend at least renting this story.

eched If you can get passed the gallons of poetry that make this series so hard to understand or fallow, and if you can get passed the plot taking nine whole episodes to get started, then you will find something really grand to behold. By the end you are just like the people searching for truth. You just want to know what's going on, and yes, all the answers are given to you. All is made clear, and you can distinctly hear yourself say, "Oh I get it now." Strong themes of religion and comments on how now a day governments, not just the US, but they get blasted a lot in this, have gone horribly wrong are found here by the gallon full. The main theme seems to be that you need faith, but it doesn't matter what your faith is. You just need to believe in the good of man kind and fight for it. I agree with this theme and it for sure adds to the series.The artwork is dazzling and at times there are some rather creepy moments. No, it will never scare you, but it is far more dark and chilling then 90% of todays horror films.It's also funny at times and is full of winks to all of my all time fave films. Kind of hard to believe that the maker of this and myself would like so many of the same films. They are all there. Fight Club, Donnie Darko even Army Of Darkness.With the dark wit, smart themes, creepy look, likable characters, and all you could ever want in a movie, well baby, it's hard not to like the end effect and you soon forget about all the start grips you had. By the end you only really have one comment to make.Wow.