There were some brutal "death" scenes which of course looked amazing. It felt a lot quicker than I thought it would be and the part with Saber becoming Saber Alter would happen much later but I guess I just forgot. I like the added scenes of Sakura thinking of Rin sometimes and she would play with the bow she wears. From the visual novel, her dress got more detail which I was a fan of since it looked pretty boring before. I liked the addition of those scenes in the beginning with Sakura coming over, it added a nice development since if I recall she wasn't around so much around the end. The theatre was packed, I couldn't buy popcorn cause the line was so long. Where I went they were giving out posters and I didn't know where to get one. Wish I'd known beforehand, but I was never given one, so they probably weren't handing them out.īefore I get into my thoughts I have a question. Two of the best moments involved Rider, but my favorite moment was the brief scene with Illya, Sella and Lesyritt.Īlso, I had no idea they were supposed to be giving out posters. It seemed a little odd, when he went as far as to eliminate one witness before but was fighting on top of moving traffic like it was no big deal, but the fight was incredibly visually impressive, so that outweighs the weirdness of that change.
There were some weird or silly changes, like how Lancer's fight with Assassin pretty much destroyed half the city. Some people might have been confused by a few small details, like where Rin lost her second command spell (if they're not familiar with the Fate route and didn't catch the brief moment in the intro sequence), but that kind of thing isn't that important to the overall plot. I think it works pretty well in that respect. The whole time, I was thinking about how it would come across to someone who wasn't familiar with the VN or only watched F/Z and UBW. I just wish the people around me weren't so cringe worthy literally laughing at anything and being obnoxiously loud. Either ways, loved the movie it was great. Shinji is all talk and that's what he'll always be, but the movie actually made him more villain like, even to the point of head budding shirou instead of the famous punch shinji choice. Idk about how i felt with the movie showing shinji as being not a little bitch when it comes to shirou. Besides other minor nitpicks, they shouldve done a better job with shirou dealing with hf.
The movie was great, sakura was adorable, kirei was troll, rin was rin (aka amazing) and saber was holding it down. I specially got shook when shirou got blasted by berkserker and his fucking intestines rolled out of him. Also, it being a movie also allowed it to be more graphic, seeing all the wounds and shit without being censored was crazy. Whenever the shadow showed up on the screen it would always be nerve wrecking/ unsettling and that was perfect. Thought the movie the super solid, ufotable did a great job cutting out the prologue, had a good mix of fights and it legit felt like a horror movie sometimes. PS: Sakura has always been best Fate girl, it probably just took some of you folks until now to realize it. I find it very challenging to assign a numerical rating since it's impossible to contextualize without seeing the rest, but I'm happy to say that I really enjoyed it.
The fight scenes had a degree of brutal viscerality that I doubt would've been approved for TV airing, which I really liked (I wonder how they're going to adapt Sakura's H scene.) It's still a bit early to discuss the story since some big developments happen right after where the movie ends, but I did really like the flashback scenes at the beginning which did a great job to characterize Shirou and Sakura's relationship. I also thought the pacing was very well done considering its place as the first part in a trilogy, with several pretty spectacular fight scenes to punctuate the slower moments. It featured several of the same shots and backgrounds as UBW but with a completely different tone. As for the film itself, I thought it did a great job of building a much more somber, oppressive atmosphere than other FSN entries. Also watched it in a packed theater, had some great audience moments with "Yorokobe, shounen", when Saber rekt Shinji, and the mapo tofu scenes as well.Īs for the film, I was pretty surprised at how inaccessible it would be for new viewers to the franchise, but happy with the decision since it allowed them to cut a ton of exposition and include some great fanservice for long-time fans of the franchise.