A fucking stunner. Held my breath and audibly gasped and got misty eyed and jerked up in my seat because "holy shit what a pass!"
It's high quality shonen anime storytelling, but interlaced with watching nearly every point being scored in wholly unique action sequences - which are both highly stylized, yet also so plausible? Helps that the director uh wrote the manga, and has spent the 30 years since it's conclusion focusing on nothing but getting better at drawing…
I had a real snarky and mean review posted here. I thought this movie sucked! But also I worried in some dipshit way that tradcath psychos were into my review. Fuck that!
There's no God and this films ethical core is correct. I just think it was a tad silly
Having enjoyed the hell out of the previous two movies, I expected a conclusion here and didn't get it? On top of that, while the action was as thrilling as expected, it lacked the creative tension that the previous two films had. What were the stakes here? Sure, the plot doesn't matter, but we need some degree of investment in the sequence of stupid plot points. The first movie is about his dead dog and him getting over his dead…
