All I can say to this movie.... It's already been done! They took ideas from other movies and put it together like a whole lot of mess -.-! I didn't enjoy one second of it! .... But it looked nice!
OK, I know this movie was based of a game... or something like that... But was this made into a anime as well? I don't know... So I'm just reviewing the movie. You who like the game fine! This is the MOVIE!
So what is it about? .... Boy do I wonder. I think it's about a small but powerful war between magic creatures who is searching for a holy grail and while that's going on the maincharacter have to find himself.... I think. The story is barely made, it's just a voice who talks about it in the beginning and then through a whole hour it's just people fighting. I saw it with my friend and after 45 minutes with nothing but just fighting we both were wondering: ... what are they fighting for? We had no idea! For a while we thought the movie was made just because "we wanna see people fight with magic!" Does it remind you of something? Here's a clue: FF7! Final Fantasy VII Advent children made the movie in that style too.. But they actually managed to fit in a story to it! Also the characters where likable and had a story! But we get to that later. When there was 30 minutes left in the movie this came: Another character came up, talked about the war of the holy grail, the maincharacter was fighting with a replicant of his ideals? ... I don't know! Apperantly his ideals had manifested themself into a body, a copy of... something. But that idea I liked. .. Although they had to destroy it by adding more and more and more -.- It seemed like the movie would never end but still it had!
Well, I'm not going to say much about that... I can tell you what the movie copied from: The thing with "my body is made out of swords and my blood is iron".... Does it remind you of something? Wolverine! X-man! And that Sabel... Do you recognize her screaming? She has a sword to fight with.. She has an attack like this person... LINK! They took a character from the Zelda games -.- ... And that's it.
I also have some questions for this movie that I must ask now though they're starting to drive me nuts! ... Why did Rin say that they needed to be enimies in the beginning and then after a small fight they're partners through the whole movie? Was the maincharacter a servant? If so how can he have a servant? Why was Sabel sent to the maincharacter to begin with? Who sent her? And why did she had to die? She used some kind of magic and then she disappeared? Is she dead or is she just stuck in one of those other deminsion.... thingys? Or did she just went home? Why did that blond servent vanish in black? How could he come back through it to make a last threat to the maincharacter? What was that black and red stuff anyway? What was the meaning of having that woman in the black cape?! What did she do to the story?! Why did they cast spell first on german, then in english, then in japanese?! If you're not gonna stick to one language then why change it the whole time?! Why was this movie made?!!
*breaths* There! Those questions was never answered to me! And it pisses me off! So many questions! That's not good! If you're going to make a movie think about the questions! If there is still a few questions asked without answers... Don't make it -.-!
Shall I wrapped this up now? Al right... The characters where bland and they had no backstory. The maincharacter.. all they explain is this: "I was saved by someone. I didn't deserve it so I want to rescue as many as I can!" .... What was he saved from? Who saved him? Huh?!
And Rin... The only story we were gicen was this: "Her father gave this pendant to her when she was little" when the maincharacter see a little bit from that day.. She calls him "monster" and gets angry at him...... WTF? He didn't hear anything that was said, he just saw your dad give a neckless to you. Is that so bad o.O?!
But, beside all that.... The animation is great! I love anime that is drawn that way! Although it's not worth to sit through this movie by that -.- It's not! If you want to see some great anime.. Watch a AMV about this movie or something! I bet it's better than to see the movie! Grr! This movie really pissed me off!
Well.. See you next time!