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If you saw some of the trailers, it made it seems that there would be some close calls with Gin and Vodka. However that's only from a dream Conan has in the first 5 minutes of the movie. Overall the story is less about the Black Organization and more about people dying in a hotel fire. This really feels like it's just one big episode with a two part special at the end involving the Black Organization. Why the Organization in involved is apparently someone that survived the fire and then was killed in the "murder of the day" and had a memory card. They are not a major player at all and the Organization just wants the memory card back. That's it. The ending scene with the helicopter just feels a bit overkill and nothing about the memory card is ever said after Irish drops it. Also this is probably the first movie where they start damseling Ran. As you know in previous movies when it seems that she was captured and there was no hope left. She'd whip out her karate and BAM! It was always a nice twist that for a few times you were like "Oh No!" and then there it was! Here however they decided after trading blows she would freeze when Irish's disguise is torn which taking karate myself, is a fallacy. If she is that much a master then she knows to be ready for anything. They do this to get her out of the way so Conan can save the day. Yes the 7 year old kid saves the day over a 17 year old girl. This is a kind of slap in the face. There were other ways of getting her out of the way, like not putting her there in the first place.
There's also another side plot that's related to the Tanabata murders, where the Shounen Tantei find beetles with tape on them. The sheer extrapolation needed to see these clues as a call for help is just..
First you have to know English, next have to know who the Beatles were to care enough to know what the names of their albums were, have to know that V means 5 and not.... V, have to know that kabutomushi are called "beetles" in english, have to have a person walking along who cares enough that the bugs had tape on them in the first place much less able to find them. After ALL of this then MAYBE someone would understand the message. It's just too contrived and the fact that Agase has to be there for this to work is pretty much deus ex machina style asspull.
Really this movie is skipable. All you need to know from this movie is that Irish breaks pretty much all of Conan's devices and the extendo suspenders were introduced so if/when they get to that in the TV series you know what happened.
Really it was a big let down and didn't nearly have as much action as it promised.
