Nov 16, 2017
Personally, this movie was a complete waste of time and I felt indignant after watching it. Lets get this straight first, I watch anime, not heaps but I have watched a fair bit and can definitely appreciate it as an art (unlike the general public) and also, enjoy it.
There are variety of reasons what made this film particularly frustrating to watch for me and I could go on forever but I'm just going to list it. However before this, I need to clear something up. To all those people saying that this movie is perfect blah blah, its not, they're biased, why? Because for
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a movie to be 'good', the plot should at the very least have a story that stands alone on to it's own merit where it can be understood without any prior knowledge (e.g. Star Wars V, great movie and understood what was going on even though I hadn't watched the Star wars IV). This movie is not one of them, and I only found out background knowledge is needed to watch this after I did. So from a person with an unbiased view and is new to the series (given that I had high hopes after reading all the hype for it) these are the flaws that made it so bad for me:
1. Shirou: man I could go on about him. It was just painful watching him be so incompetent all the time. The worst part of the movie is that at the end of it all he did not grow as a character, so no sense of catharsis, nope, just same old crappy Shirou.
2. Sakura: another main character. IMO the worst character in the film. At the start I didn't mind her, then she just got too much. She is the most boring and unimaginative character. She is literally an classic submissive school girl who has no sense of autonomy nor independence. She literally depends on Shirou and think he's the greatest when secretly he is equally as bad. Sakura was obviously made to play towards the weeb waifu audience. How? Well, she has E cups, sexiest character in the film while being super innocent, her voice is the most stereotypical submissive schoolgirl voice where it very high and cute, and also, she calls him senpai and is essentially his servant.
3. Horrible pacing. Would just cut to random events, which left me confused as to what was going on. One minute they're in school, next minute the protagonist is in a holy war, with the most bare explanation as to why.
4. No sense of causation: throughout the film I had the most basic idea (if any at all) to what each character was driven by. It seemed like they were just doing random things at times.
5. Super slow/ irrelevant start
6. Deus ex machina ending (although it is only part 1, so, fair enough )
7. no character growth
8. Barely any character development beside main (boring and frustrating) characters. Rin barely got any screen time, even though she was infinitely more interesting than the incompetent and frustrating mains
9. Incoherent and incongruent plot
10. To many anime romance tropes, specifically, innocent girls has high crush on senpai and would do anything for him. Was cringing midway, anytime Shirou and Sakura had a scene together.
Pros:
1. Cool action sequences
2. Interesting battles with distinguishable characters with unique abilities
3. nice animation
4. half decent score
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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