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"Fansub" US vu sur OK.

For an action movie, it was too long for its sake, no matter how well made and animated it was (especially in the said action scenes). The redesign to fit the more action-focused nature of the movie and its animation was pretty effective (though my personal preference is still for the 2011 "manga" style). Except background characters who had either strange bodies or features.
The will to expand over a lesser known part of the geopolitics of Amestris was great, it was sadly spoiled by using it only to showcase things we had already seen developed previously. Between the many recycled points from the manga and the first animated series, nothing new came out.
A good thing was to focus on the new characters since the film tells their story above anything else On the other hand, I didn't found the many parallels established that useful. Maaya Sakamoto was quite good as the heroin.
Various pretty stupid things happened here and there (just how many liters of blood came out of two single bodies to cover the whole circulation system and draw the form?! why the hell was the main girl needed alive all this time? etc) but the biggest was the excuse to trigger the biggest action scene of the movie. The spectacular finale happened only thanks to an invention disregarding the system established in the main story. At least, it was to give birth to some good over-the-top action sequence.

Finally, the piece of fan-service that were the main story secondary characters dropped in the movie felt totally out-of-place. Mustang over the phone would have been plenty enough.

Enjoyment: 4/5
Score: 6/10 Maybe I'm too forgiving for the illogicality but it's an action piece, not a brainstorming investigation.

PS: nice to hear L'Arc-en-Ciel again on this brand.