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A well-structured first chapter setting up the new conflict and characters and showing the "tortured" young man with ideals born of CCA that Hathaway has become while still being an impulsive kid. Although people might question the usefulness (or rather the idiocy) of the events of this beginning.
But the whole style of the film is off-putting, be it with its "drawings", its shots, its (luckily rare) musics. (Obviously, all of this is clearly intentional. Was it cheaper? Does the director want to show off?) In the end, the fact most of the action is set at night helps mitigate the total lack of effort in integrating the CGI and drawn elements together, but it's still not enough.
The most notable part is with little doubt the first "robots scene" shot mostly from the street. No wonder it serves for one of the posters.
Score: 6~7/10 (hard to judge a 3parts movie)
Enjoyment: 2~3/5
If I had read all the chapters covered here, I would have lost the little interest I had during the film.
Random thoughts:
- how ugly those interiors look ! There's no concern for the characters' integration in those barely defined CG environments,
- the "modernised" chara-design is too much of a "bastard" for me but looks okay (with the exception of the female newtype),
- is the director obsessed with camera movements? That might explain the ugly environments.
- the opening is laughably ridiculous, visually as well as musically,
- the dialogues have retained a little something of Tomino's awkward style. Interesting but strange choice. (Even the full names use.)
- shower scene !
- "shingata" !
- what are all those weird angled shots for? They might look nice or interesting in other conditions, but they seem to come up randomly here.
- ugly CGI robots, of course,
- potentially interesting discussions cut short,
- music/songs used for jarring effects,
- ah, good one! 3D movements used to depict the 360° view of CCA+ MS
- the dark scenes of Netflix's copy are way too black,
- nice use of a ground point-of-view for MS fights damages,
- hearing Amuro was a treat !
- a rather good and well-directed (short) action segment to close the film, it moves well and finally shows some advantages of the digital style. Too bad several shots look like they were lifted from a videogame of a few years ago.