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LeejLicious

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Fullmetal Alchemist 1 japanese movie review
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Fullmetal Alchemist 1
4 people found this review helpful
by LeejLicious
Mar 6, 2018
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
This didn't live up to my personal expectations as someone who has seen both theanime's, movies and read the manga.
I would not recommend to watch this movie without watching the original series (preferably the brotherhood version or the manga).

The story is one big mess, I see what they tried to do but it failed. First of all it would have been better for the story -and character development to put this in a three or four part movie of 2 hours instead one single movie. They left out so many key-elements in the movie and on top of that, the movie didn't explain the elements that were there at all! I can imagine that someone who didn't watch the anime would drop this movie in an instant. The story was fast paced which didn't give the viewer much room to get connected to the characters or understand their actions. They also put in very important characters and didn't use them at all (like the three villains). Almost everyone was lacking a background story. The end was so extremely rushed that I felt really unfulfilled.

BUT, I really loved the tiny things that they perfectly picked up on. For example all the clothes that everyone wore, the logo's that were shown and even how some characters walked or put their glasses back on; these were spot on. I loved the scenery and the CGI wasn't bad either.
Sadly this didn't save the movie, and I am dissapointed and I really tried to like it so badly but it failed.

Watch this: If you want it to give a try.
Skip this: if you thought this would be the live-action movie of the year.

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