Oct 21, 2010
for fans who have read the fate/stay night visual novel, this movie would be very disappointing (except for one part)
basically the story is rushed through, no surprises there as it is a movie, and the visual novel has too much to cover, but to name the movie "unlimited blades work" would be to put into focus the main point of it from the visual novel, which is, emiya shirou's convictions and archer's convictions.
as someone who has read the novel, i can say that nothing is very well explained, even the things that MAKES the movie.they should have shown more "dreams" of archer on top of
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the hill of dead bodies, and have emiya shirou monologuing what he sees, describing the true nature of that scene.
i found the revealing part, where archer revealed he is emiya shirou to be underwhelming (of course i already knew, but even after that fact, i still found it unimpressive due to the lack of buildup)
yet the biggest problem i have with this film..is the chant. they show it at the opening needlessly, and never once in the movie has the full thing been said (it has been shown yes, but i feel emiya shirou saying his chant would have been alot more epic)
but, if there is one thing i love about this movie, it's emiya vs archer..the soundtrack by kenji kawai was amazing, all throughout the scene, i was completely engulfed.
the perfect movements, the conflict of ideals, and of course, the music made that scene the best moment of the movie (though this is just my opinion)
and now, emiya shirou vs gilgamesh.
first of all, when shirou declared he will take care of gilgamesh instead of saber in the novel, everyone was surprised, the thought was absolutely ridiculous, and the reaction of both saber and gilgamesh reflected that (and it was a great buildup to the epicness that lied ahead)
i have nothing against the soundtrack played during the fight, but playing "emiya" again would have been epic. that theme was also played during the novel while shirou was fighting
gilgamesh, and it was awesome.
i have already stated i did not like the chant, so i'm going to talk about the fight itself.
of course, shirou said the line everyone was waiting for, "do you have enough weapons in stocks, king of heroes?" but during the fight, we see emiya shirou using the same weapon over and over, just like gilgamesh. the point of "unlimited blades work" was to count gates of babylon, countering a limitless number of weapons with another endless supply of weapons.
in the novel, gilgamesh constantly changed weapon, and emiya shirou constantly took the same weapon to match him, that was the essence of this battle.
the story wasn't well told, but that is to be expected since the movie had a time constraint.
the art was amazing, everything was extremely detailed, i especially love the reality marble "unlimited blades work"
the soundtrack was also nice, my favorite being the theme "unlimited blades work" (not to be confused with emiya, and kenji kawai's emiya
i can't say much about the characters, if you read the novel, you know them, and i did not find anything i had a problem with. i think they managed to flesh out the characters enough for us to know their mindset
enjoyment? there wasn't a lot to be intrigued by, until archer vs emiya, and just for that scene, i can say i will rewatch the movie again and again
overall, i'd give it an 8, though i wish i could give it a 10
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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