This movie starts off great. The main character arrives at the after-life metro (?) station and they don't have a body. They don't have a voice. The movie's point of view is THEIRS, which means that basically they're "the camera". That made me feel like I was that character, so I liked that straight off the bat.
But then the "real" movie starts when they possess Makoto's body and Makoto goes back to his home with his family. God, what a boring family. What a boring life.
I didn't feel sympathy for any of the characters. After over an hour of movie, all I really "knew" about them was their appearance and what their "role" in the story was (the girl that makoto liked, his mom, his dad, his brother, this weird ugly chick in his art class, and that's about it). There was no depth to them OR makoto.
The plot, if there were any, moved slower than a sleeping sloth. I literally fell asleep THREE TIMES while trying to watch this movie, and whenever I caught myself dozing off, I had to figure out at which moment I was last awake (because the story is so mundane, so every scene looks exactly the same as many others you've already watched before).
And the art? it's ugly. I'm sorry for the brutal honesty, but IT IS UGLY. At least Koe no Katachi (which I disliked as well) was very pretty. THIS adds to the whole "boring" atmosphere the movie has going on.
So... the idea of the story is interesting, but the execution left a lot be desired.
