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I am a fan of Fate/Stay Night and the Fate series in general, but in my opinion, this movie is quite bad. Let's start with the good points though.

Art: The artwork in this movie is quite nice. It's more or less what I expect out of Studio DEEN and all of the fight scenes are animated quite spectacularly. Each fight is full of light and particle effects, and it really is one of the few enjoyable parts of this movie.

Sound: The soundtrack of this movie is pretty standard. The music was there, and I noticed it was there. It didn't make me cringe, but at ... the same time, it didn't particularly stand out. The only reason I rate it higher than 5, is because I sort of liked the voice acting.

Story & Character: This is where the entire trainwreck is. The plot makes absolutely no sense. At all. Now, this is the part where some might object and say that you should play the game, or at least watch the anime, first. If you haven't done either of the two before, the story just ends up being a montage of 2-3 min scenes and you never have any clue how they end up going from one place to the next. There is little to no motivation for what happens next in the story. Even while the next event is happening, there is little explanation as to what is even going on. If you have played the game/watched the show before, then it's simply a rushed recap of everything that happened in the game. This would be more acceptable if the aim was to get to a more important part of the plot and focus more time on it. Unfortunately, the rushed "quick recap" pace continues throughout the entire movie making it pretty much one giant mess. Due to the nature of the presentation, the characters also come out extremely shallow. If you have not seen the previous works, it's likely you will have no idea why anybody is doing what they are doing. Characters will yell at each other asking "When did you become like this?" but you'll have no idea what they were like to begin with.

Conclusion: The artwork is quite nice, and the battle scenes look quite epic. However, why the fights are happening, why we should care about any of the characters at all, what the basic premise even is, are all poorly explained or not explained at all. If you are new to the Fate series, good luck sorting out what is going on. Even if you aren't, it's still a giant muddled mess that basically tells you to go play the game if you want to have any idea what just happened.