Just gonna put out a stream of consciousness, I don't really feel like making a well thought out review for a film like this.
Well the conclusion to the rebuild series has come out and is available on amazon prime. After so many years I found it rather meh. It is certainly much better than 3.0, but that wasn't exactly a high bar to pass. Its more or less a reimagining of End of Evangelion but done much more bluntly and with stupid action sequences. Almost every theme is spelled out for the audience and is generally presented in a way I found much less compelling than the original series and movies. It does end on a happier note but it feels a bit unearned. The conflict is resolved by talk-no-jiustsu which is appropriate but what is done to get to that point feels unconnected. I am still left scratching my head as to what happened to the Seele leadership and organization because 3.0 and the sequel seem to indicate the entire operation is run by Gendo and Fyutski somehow.
We get to see how people live now that neo-tokyo is gone and I honestly found that bit interesting. Unfortunately it has little bearing on the film for how much of the film's run time it takes up.
The 3D in this movie is atrocious through out and I often found myself tuning out the action. Everything is dialed up to 11. There are literally billions of Eva's in this but they don't really do much and might as well not exist. There is a giant Rei Ayanami a la EoE but they opt to go with a 3d model instead of 2d animation. It is weird looking but I found it more distracting and ugly than unsettling. There is a fight scene later that uses the weird animation to good effect for a sequence I enjoyed more in concept than execution.
There is so much fan service in this it become distracting, sometimes its unintentionally hilarious and other times its creepy. Early on we see Ritsuko in a plug suit and all I could focus on was this weird cod piece over her vagina due to the camera placement and the way the design draws attention to it. Auska spends a good third of the movie naked/panties, you could argue that its because she doesn't value her body since she can't age but that falls away when the camera is constantly looking up her ass. The male gaze is fully unleashed in this movie and I can now say with certainty that Anno is an ass man.
Mari plays a much bigger role in this film but still has no real character motivation. Its implied by the ending that Mari and Shnji are a thing I guess because Mari and Shinji are inserts of Anno and his wife? Its just weird because Mari is revealed to be a colleague of Gendo, Yui and Fyutski who had her aging stopped by the FCL, which would make her a forty something year old by the events of the film while Shinji is still 16, pretty damn creepy.
The final scene of the film is an aerial shot of a real neighborhood in Tokyo, Anno's way telling overly obsessive fans to get out and get a life because he is done with this series. There is a sense of finality, but that was also true of EoE, only time will tell if he holds true to this.
Well the conclusion to the rebuild series has come out and is available on amazon prime. After so many years I found it rather meh. It is certainly much better than 3.0, but that wasn't exactly a high bar to pass. Its more or less a reimagining of End of Evangelion but done much more bluntly and with stupid action sequences. Almost every theme is spelled out for the audience and is generally presented in a way I found much less compelling than the original series and movies. It does end on a happier note but it feels a bit unearned. The conflict is resolved by talk-no-jiustsu which is appropriate but what is done to get to that point feels unconnected. I am still left scratching my head as to what happened to the Seele leadership and organization because 3.0 and the sequel seem to indicate the entire operation is run by Gendo and Fyutski somehow.
We get to see how people live now that neo-tokyo is gone and I honestly found that bit interesting. Unfortunately it has little bearing on the film for how much of the film's run time it takes up.
The 3D in this movie is atrocious through out and I often found myself tuning out the action. Everything is dialed up to 11. There are literally billions of Eva's in this but they don't really do much and might as well not exist. There is a giant Rei Ayanami a la EoE but they opt to go with a 3d model instead of 2d animation. It is weird looking but I found it more distracting and ugly than unsettling. There is a fight scene later that uses the weird animation to good effect for a sequence I enjoyed more in concept than execution.
There is so much fan service in this it become distracting, sometimes its unintentionally hilarious and other times its creepy. Early on we see Ritsuko in a plug suit and all I could focus on was this weird cod piece over her vagina due to the camera placement and the way the design draws attention to it. Auska spends a good third of the movie naked/panties, you could argue that its because she doesn't value her body since she can't age but that falls away when the camera is constantly looking up her ass. The male gaze is fully unleashed in this movie and I can now say with certainty that Anno is an ass man.
Mari plays a much bigger role in this film but still has no real character motivation. Its implied by the ending that Mari and Shnji are a thing I guess because Mari and Shinji are inserts of Anno and his wife? Its just weird because Mari is revealed to be a colleague of Gendo, Yui and Fyutski who had her aging stopped by the FCL, which would make her a forty something year old by the events of the film while Shinji is still 16, pretty damn creepy.
The final scene of the film is an aerial shot of a real neighborhood in Tokyo, Anno's way telling overly obsessive fans to get out and get a life because he is done with this series. There is a sense of finality, but that was also true of EoE, only time will tell if he holds true to this.
