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Oct 11, 2017
Last Game is a failure of a finale to the series.

Just to get it out of the way: it's fair to call it a finale because it calls itself last game, as opposed to its manga counterpart that just called itself extra game, which was much more harder to be harsh on it for that reason.

The best part of the movie was seeing how the Generation of Miracles were no longer bloodthirsty psychopaths who'd stab someone with scissors. Seeing them as normal, chill teens was pretty refreshing. Them having retconned Kagami wanting to be an NBA player is also an appreciated touch, it filled in the whole of none of them having any clear goal beyond just becoming really good high school basketball players that the series had for its entire run, and because of it, it also gave some of the other characters goals too. Sadly, the same can't be said about the other aspects of the movie.

The villains are definitely the worst part. Seeing as fans of the series are used to asshole antagonists who just talk about how no one can stop them and how they wish a proper challenger would show up, it's probably not that hard to be lenient towards them at first, but it slowly becomes apparent that there won't be much to them as it goes on. Gold and Silva don't get any moment where we see what shaped their beliefs and attitude and they don't get any kind of character arc by the end either, they don't have any nuance or depth to them, they only exist to get beaten down. It's quite ironic, really, for a series whose whole point was about showing disillusioned teens the fun of basketball and teaching them to not be stuck-up pricks, the final villains end up being exactly that and don't even get the same kind of treatment the show prided itself on being about.

For an anime tie-in movie, it somehow managed to look exactly like and sometimes worse than the tv show. Other than the parts featuring hyper-realistic animation early on during the 2nd match, which had very weird camera angles and felt less explosive compared to some of the more well-known cuts from the main series, the movie kept using its usual technique of still frames and close-ups .

It really just felt like a cashgrab rather than a fulfilling epilogue, all things considered.

also no meteor jam D:
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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