This review can contain spoilers.
As somebody who enjoyed the original anime of NGE, I must say that the tetralogy of Rebuild had potential to show us a different way that the original anime may have taken in 1995 but it couldn't because of Gainax's bankruptcy situation in those years as NGE was going to be their last work. But, thanks to many people who supported the franchise with the summary movie Death and Rebirth, Gainax was saved and produced The End of Evangelion which answered some questions that the anime left unanswered and, why not? it left some more unsawered questions.
When I watched the first movie of Rebuild I said myself: "Neh, more summary movies but now remasterized and with better animation", but when I watched the second movie I regretted and definitely ended loving the new movies.
Evangelion 2.0 was unforgottable: the animation, the character development (Rei's development was definitely the best of all) and a new interesting character, the soundtrack and most of the annoying mental jackets finally removed.
As somebody who hoped the third movie to be the best of all and wait uncountable days for the premiere and when I finally watched it after months of waiting, I said:
"What the hell were the writers thinking when they released this?. They even sponsored the movie in trains in Japan and this is the final product?"
This movie it's worse than awful: It is as if somebody had put your head in a washing machine, you had been slapped in the face, then somebody had ejaculated on your head, they've been given you a mint ice scream and before you'd realize they put it in your ass!.
Story: 3
The story makes no sense: The story is set 14 years after the Near Third Impact but does not even explain what the hell is going on. There are tons of plotholes, incongruences, continuity errors and canon-smashers everywhere:
-When and how was the Evangelion-01 placed around the Earth's orbit?.
-Why was WILLE founded to destroy NERV and why are they trying to destroy the organization that once belonged?.
-What happened to the Ayanami Rei that Shinji saved from Zeruel? Was she not with him into the Evangelion-01? Why he has gone out and she did not?
-The Impacts are now so frequent that they should be announced in the weather news.
-There have been many new Evangelions but they jumped the 7th.
-Why the Evangelion-09 does look as primitive as the Evangelion-00?.
-The Cassius Spear... eh? how many spears are there?.
-Kaji is still alive? In this continuity he have not yet done enough anything to get killed.
-It is my or NERV has now just 4 people? at least in the movie apart from Gendo, Fuyutsuki, Ayanami and Kaworu a soul is not seen by the facilities of NERV ... and there is not a fucking maid! Who maintains and / or build the Evangelions?? and above all, who pays the bill? (Could be Seele, but hey, is one of the things I liked about Evangelion, I mean the "realism" in this sense). In this everything seems to work alone, without anyone to take care of anything, and of course do not explain how they developed the Evangelion 13, the MK-09 and those flying Evangelions that are saucers with bug pins (yeah, they are EVAs, I've read somewhere).
-In this movie Toji's sister is introduced a little more... What has been of Touji and Aida? And by the way, what happened to the rest of the world? because what you see in the movie around the planet is a desert.
-The Nebuchadnezzar's Key... Is it a relevant object or the writers don't know what it is for and they think that we are fools thinking that we have forgotten that it exists?.
-How can Kaworu be the 1st and the 13th Angel at sametime? By the way, they have jumped on the 11th angel.
-The Evangelions do not needed external power supply? They have now infinite energy without a reason. If we remember, in the original anime the Evangelion-01 devoured Zeruel and assimilated his core and developed his own S2 Engine but in this movies, the EVA-01 did not eat Zeruel and it has not S2 Engine. Does now all the EVAs developed their own S2 Engine from the ass?.
-How and when was the 12th Angel placed into the EVA MK-06?.
-What the heck is that bullshit about the "EVAs curse"?.
Characters: 2
Oh man, the characters had a great development in the previous movie and this movie just ruined everything:
-Shinji had finally become an "adult" in the previous movie that could take decisions by himself and not let himself to be dragged everywhere by others... but now, he has returned to be the same crying baby with depressive problems as in the beginning.
-Asuka became a Big Boss 2.0. Nothing else to say.
-Ritsuko... is Ritsuko.
-Misato passed from being the only person in NERV to care for the pilots, to a screaming bitch who uses everybody for her own sake.
-Rei "misteriously" disappeared from the EVA-01 and a new and even more autist clone replaces her wasting all the development she had in the previous movies.
-Kaworu: By far, the writers did something in this movie with Kaworu that they could not do in the original anime, the manga or End of Evangelion movie: The characters pleases everybody. Seriously, is attentive with the protagonist, has a sense of humor, he is the only one that explains things to Shinji as well he comforts him.
-Mari was overshadowed by other filling characters having minimal presence in the movie.
-Gendo... is Gendo.
Art: 6
The 2D animation is great but, I felt the excesive use of CGI really unnecessary.
Sound: 8
The classical composition with pieces of art from Beethoven fit correctly with the scenes. He stills being one of my favourite compositors of all time. Sadly, the music was not enough to save this movie.
Enjoyment: 3
I almost fell asleep during the film, all I waited during an hour and half was the end of the movie or at least some answered questions.
Overall: 3
I don't recommend this movie not even to the greatest fans of Evangelion. If you watch the first two Rebuild movies, STOP! and don't go any further from 2.0. Consider the ending of 2.0 as the true and absolute end and forget completely that there is a third movie.
