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| Finally got around to watching this. Started out great with pretty good battles, but then it turned into a Naruto movie story-ish thingy. Scratch that! Even Naruto movies are better >.<! I didn't care about any of the characters, i was just think "let them die and go..." the entire time :/ well except Miranda she was hot :(.. Pretty disappointing, first half was pretty enjoyable second not so much.. Also i expected much better animation, the battle animation was good but the rest was pretty plain. 6/10 |
AozureJul 11, 2013 2:50 AM
| It's an ok movie. Too many characters (winry, mustang and company) seemed to be forced in there for little to no conceivable reason. Hell, Mustang doesn't even use alchemy on screen, but merely gets a cutback showing a charred chimera. Unfortunately in my case by the end of this movie I wasn't disappointed per se, but I wasn't moved either. I found myself overall not caring about majority of the characters, for instance the fake Ashley kills Miranda, but I had no attachment to Miranda so this was not a pivotal moment. The fake Ashley dies, however there was not enough build up for me to harbor resentful feelings or something that would make me rejoice at his death. The most meaningful death for me was....Pedro....a filler character who is in the movie for 3 maybe 4 minutes. All in all I just didn't feel attached to any of the 'new' characters and since Ed/Al were not the real focus of the movie I just found myself not caring. The part that actually bugs me though is how they basically state they will sacrafice their own lives for the philosopher stone. Admirable, this shows they are willing to give up their own lives for future generations freedom. Yet, when they go to make the stone, there are only 4 characters there. 2 of which you know beforehand are not going to die. It becomes a moot point as the fake Ashley is revealed, but it just didn't come off as some altruistic moment prior to that as I felt it could have been portrayed, considering they knew beforehand what it required. On a plus side, peeling off a dude's face and using it as your own was a nice twist. I had already pinned Ashley as being the villain, but not in that way. Of course once it was revealed he was a fake, figuring out the real one was alive and who it was....was pretty obvious. All in all found the movie ok. It wasn't bad, but it's not memorable either. Something I wouldn't watch again and while I don't necessarily regret watching it, since it is FMA I did have much higher expectations. Giving it a 5/10 and will probably have forgotten it within the week. |
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| 03:53 so far so bad, the direction 04:59 "it wasn't me" LOL 22:50 the shock of headless armor + the fall. LOOOL 27:09 Winry <3 01:15:22 Y U NO grab the mountains? 01:36:17 how did her bro manage to remain standing for so long? 01:37:32 i'm sure she'd lose some of her limbs/organs 01:43:20 hyuu hyuu Arukun 01:44:55 so, her bro lost his left arm 4/10. What a disappointment. It's like one of those crappy Naruto movies. FMA Shamballa movie was a 10/10 masterpiece. What're you doing, bones? |
| Isayama Hajime should be awarded The Manga with The Highest Inconsistencies of Characters' Appearances. He keeps performing multiple plastic surgeries on those Shingeki No Kyojin characters in a SINGLE chapter. Yes, I've read up to the latest chapter of Shingeki No Kyojin manga. Forced myself to read through the kidsketching chapters after the anime's ended. At least from now on, I only have to go through the hell once a month. Patiently awaiting SNK TV/movie/OVA anime-sequel. The 2015 SNK live-action movie would probably suck. |
| >I am the Full Metal Alchemist Ah I just love that quote. So far, I liked the beginning of the movie especially with that rogue alchemist on the loose. I loved the scenes on the train as well. Being popular must be tough for Edward lol. Glad to see most of the main characters in this like Winry, Mustang, Riza, etc. That Wolf-Chimera picked the wrong fight tbh in this movie. No wonder he bit the dust. I really liked Alphonse and Julia's friendship in this movie though. I never trusted that other alchemist in the beginning oop, it proves itself right. Julia looks like she's on meth or something after solving that gem though. Part of me thinks she looks badass, part of me thinks she looks evil. Great action and OST. Be sure to watch this with headphones ON. Overall: 7/10. Story needs serious improvement tbh. Oh and Alphonse is right. Julia got prettier :3 |
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| Pretty good movie. Enjoyed it even though it was extremely predictable. Nice to see the characters again, though the character designs were a little weird. I really liked the OST for this movie. |
| -Nothing can stay unchanged. Even so, can you still keep on loving this place? -Be still my soul; when change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last. |
| Yeah there was way too much focus on Julia and Ashley. I get that they needed to be developed but you watch a FMA movie to see the Elric brothers, Mustang(who bothered leaving his office, why?) and all the other characters we're fond of. And despite all the time focused on her, I didn't become particularly interested in Julia. The plot was alright but other than the villain pretending to be the brother, nothing was very memorable. The new art style was weird but it wasn't so off-putting that I'd drop the score because of it. The fights were also surprisingly good. Might watch again one day but wouldn't buy it. 7/10 |
| Boring and forgettable. The lowest point for FMA (anime) . |
| I'm too old for this sh**t. |
| the sound effects are too damn loud and the characters voices are too damn soft and low to be able to hear well it just might be because of the player but anyway it was good but I can't shake off the feeling that I've just wasted time.. 6/10 |
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| Some pretty good twists. Now on to the others. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| A very good stand alone movie. Throughout, the action is present. Nice to see again Ed & Al with some perfect sentence : I am the Full Metal Alchemist. The story is interesting but too focused on new characters. I'd have liked to see more of Roy. Edward & Al seem to be littles alchimists compared to the philosopher's stone. But it was a nice movie, I really appreciated to watch a movie on this universe. |
| Well that was pretty fun. I figured out the guy in the mask musta been her real brother, and that the earring plot point would come up, only after it was revealed that the other guy was the imposter(though before mask guy was actually revealed as her brother)...which admittedly I probably shoulda realized sooner with the neck scars and whatnot. :D I did like that the real brother lived and got his face back, though I guess he was blatantly evil and they don't get to stay together in the end, I just figured for sure he'd die so it was nice that I was wrong on that. The Al love interest angle felt forced...well what little of it there was anyway, but I feel like that's a minor complaint. I thought the animation/character designs had their good and bad. I thought they were to the film's advantage during the heavy action scenes as they looked really pleasing to my eye, very fluid, but during the slower scenes I thought it was to the film's detriment as they looked more distorted/oddly drawn than I'd liked. There was alot of death and sad things but for whatever reason I'm left with a lighthearted feel, it was just a fun watch as I said. Nothing spectacular, but well I enjoyed it enough. 7/10 |
| In the middle of the movie, I just wanted Julia and the brother to die; to make it more interesting ( I'm not hating on them. It's just for making this movie better) But oh well, they survived =/ I'll give this 7/10 |
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| Meh, pretty cliche movie. Most of it was boring, then some good action parts and a boring end. |
| I thought it was a good movie. Yes its filler, but if you enjoy it then so much the better. I do kinda want to know what became of Milos though. Boy that Atlas though, what a total creep of a monster. |
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| Is this supposed to follow the story after Brotherhood? Is it canon? Should I watch it? |
jreginald said: Is this supposed to follow the story after Brotherhood? Is it canon? Should I watch it? Nope. If you have nothing to do, then yeah watch it. |
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M00ner said: jreginald said: Is this supposed to follow the story after Brotherhood? Is it canon? Should I watch it? Nope. If you have nothing to do, then yeah watch it. Sweet, thanks for the reply. |
| Very good, I really liked Julia, she was nice and worked hard to save everyone, her brother (fake one or real one) were a pain. |
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| Not gonna lie, this was pretty boring. |
Oh, pitiful shadow cloaked in darkness. Thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy hollow soul drowns in thy sins. How would you like to see what death is like? -Enma Ai |
bkim999 said: Valaskjalf said: It was ok. Still don't understand why Julia lost her leg despite her using the philosopher stone but I guess they wanted to make it kinda dramatic to prove a point I suppose ? I agree. The "Sanguine Star" was suppose to be a type of Philospher stone. As a result, when Julia performed that transmutation, she shouldn't have lost her leg. The stone is something that is suppose to prevent that. What Julia did to save her brother would probably be similar to the objective of Al and Ed getting their bodies back. Like, IF Al or Ed had actually used a Philospher stone to get their bodies back, they wouldn't exactly lose anything. The same would've applied to Julia. Noticed this on the first forum page: RockerXD said: Wasn't there mentioning of medical alchemy in Brotherhood, and when ed was injured(can't remember when) he shortened his life time to heal a lethal wound iirc Thanks to the stones, Julia didn't have to shorten her own lifespan, plus she wanted to give his face and skin back. The stones had been used quite a lot, too, and the new stone wasn't even a very powerful one (maybe too little blood for it?). Even blocking the lava seemed to be hard. Besides, I don't think it was all the brother's neurological problems there, it was more likely to be just the stone he'd swallowed. So if she wanted to change that in her brother, she'd have to get the stone out of him. Do medic alchemists even treat mental patients? And my answer to the original question: I enjoyed it a lot, except for the last Al + Julia thing. But maybe it wasn't love, maybe it was just a little deeper relationship that was developed under imprisonment etc. when Ed wasn't there. |
FlaronaJun 5, 2016 4:46 AM
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| A few things that didn't make sense but I will just let it pass. However, I didn't quite liked getting a happy ending since it seems too perfect to be believable. How the stone was used in the fight was also not a big plus for me either. VAs and animation at the beginning gave a bit of a shock but I quickly got over it because I did enjoy the beginning (up until the stone was swallowed). Action was good. Always love learning about what's going on with other countries. Quite like the characters from village, Julia for the most part, and the shocking revelations regarding her brother kept up the surprise. Sad that Mustand + Co and Winry played little to unneeded roles... Was really waiting for at least one attack from Mustang and seeing Winry's influence the village's automail. Overall, I really liked the movie but the after Julia swallowed the stone it somewhat went downhill for me. |
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| They have a plethora of characters to choose from and they chose to disregard all of them and create new ones instead. Lost my interest after the train scene. |
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| Why didnt officer Atlas just cut of Julia's skin if he had no use for her anyway? Would have been actually nice if AL got back for her but it seems he got May at the end of Brotherhood. Also I loved how similar the underground city scene was compared to 2003's, the city used for a philosophers stone hidden under the real city. Overall the film was alright, nothing special unfortunately. Animation / artstyle was also mediocre compared to Brotherhood, hell even 2003. Shame that Mustang and Hawkeye and some of the other alchemists from the series pretty much didn't even need to be in the film. Overall 7/10, not bad nor great. |
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| 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. |
Rei_IIIJul 22, 2017 11:29 AM
| did enjoy enough. 1. Julia with stone was quite hot. 2. 3D transmutation circle was neat 3. Action was quite fun story was quite random IMO ... characters felt as well kind of a "hey, I'm here now. Do that, ey! New guy here now!, ey! ey! ey! stuff is happening" Moral of the story. Story was pretty average and random. Rest was good. |
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| Not really an issue but since I just finished rewatching Brotherhood and came directly to the movie, the new animation style kinda put me off guard. Movie itself is very mediocre imo, the plot with Julia and her brother wasn't particularly interesting for me. It really could just be its own anime without attaching the FMA tag to it. Also the original FMA characters didn't really contribute much to the plot? Ed and Al were honestly just there to defeat the villain thats it. And idk why they even brought Mustang, Hawkeye, and Winry to Creta. Overall, decent movie. 7/10 for the amazing scenery art and animation. |
| I loooooooove this beautiful masterpiece of an anime movie. 10/10!!! |
| Huge disappointment. Well, I knew it wasn't going to be very good or decent in the first place, but it turned out to be even worse. Nice. Hayamin's review sums up the movie perfectly. |
| Storyline clearly needed some working, but it was a great watch nonetheless! It's been about two to three years since I binged the two tv series and hence a pleasure to be back to this world and series. Edward is popular as ever xD and it's nice to see the brothers getting a lot of shining moments together. Animation was surprisingly fabulous during the action scenes and the BGM on point, certainly made this some watch alone for these company as such. I'm not going to get into the meat of things here with all the Alchemy developments and whatnot, it was lacking but I'll just leave it there. Second half as such was a bit of a mess as a result. Julia turned out to be a fairly good character in the end and I really enjoyed some of the moments between Alphonse and her. "You've become prettier." - Now that's my boy, lol. Got to say, the fact that Julia's brother managed to get away effortlessly like that is a biggest puzzling matter for me by far. Not enough Mustang and Armstrong action... Anyway, I'll settle with a 7/10 for this. If I may be so forward, it's kind of like Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch if you get my drift. I'll definitely give the Brotherhood a rewatch someday and maybe some of the bits from here will be a little more clear then. |
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Eixy said: The one thing that I couldn't shake off though was how they just easily threw in some philosopher stones right outta the damn blue. I mean one moment we killed just two peoples for their blood the next we have a philospher's stone hiding away in the city lol what? Exactly! The whole show was about how hard and rare philosopher stones are, and how dangerous is it to perform human transmutation. And now we learn that philosopher stones are just.. laying there in ancient cities and are very easy to get; and that this random girl that can barely do alchemy just resuscitated her brother without loosing anything but a leg. Nice... This movie just... Shits on the whole anime. |
EstebanODDec 27, 2021 4:56 PM
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| My word, that was rather boring an dragged out. 5/10. |
| 1:14:41 Those scenes of him ripping off Julia's clothing were quite kinky. Julia is so sexy, and her armpit is so lickable! Yummy! At first, I didn't like the animation. It looked inferior compared to the series, but I started to enjoy the show as soon as I got used to it. I love the amount of action, and the story, while it was nothing special, was good enough to keep me hooked. Julia's fake bro and her real bro are both such assholes. I thought he'd make their life easier when the real one appeared. 8/10 |
| This movie is quite good I might say. Julia is a character that I'd appreciate to see in the main series. All in all, glad I finally watched it after postponing for years. |
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