Cash-grabs, in general, is just a shitty scheme for companies in any medium to make poorly done squeals, to having unnecessary remakes and spinoff of existing properties. 95% of the time cash-grabs to popular works fail because not only do the companies would often run out of ideas but they will also heavily milk that cow even when it’s dead. Assassin’s Creed is the worst example of this. For a series that I use to love has now turned a milking cow for Ubisoft where after the release Assassin’s Creed Revelations Ubisoft has been desperately been milking the franchise by making poorly done squeals such as Assassin’s Creed Unity to unnecessary spinoffs such as Assassin’s Creed Chronicles which was a side-scrolling/Puzzle/Stealth game that not only bored me to tears but it perfectly represents how the Assassin’s Creed series has fallen just by being milked to death.
The same cash grabbing bullshit can apply for anime and the biggest offender for this is easily the Naruto franchise. Not only they have made countless pointless Naruto movies but the creators for that show constantly tried it’s hardest to keep it alive by having a crap tone of filler episodes to having an awful squeal series Burto the next generation which was the creators attempt to keep the Naruto series alive even though it’s getting One For All smashed by My Hero Academia constantly. How does this cash grab bullshit relate to Neon Genesis Evangelion Death and Rebirth? Well to put this straightforward Neon Genesis Evangelion Death and Rebirth is one of the most shameless cash-grabs to ever come out from this medium. Unlike the other two series that I just mention where I slightly give them points for trying to make they series reverent in the modern era for they respective mediums this movie has no reason to exist whatsoever and it should be burned to the ground.
The first 67 minutes of this movie being the death part is a lazily done recap off all the events of the first 24 episodes off the show including the director’s cut stuff that was released later by ADV Films? Not only does this part of the movie does an aboustly horrendous job at telling all the important events off the series but it somehow manages to completely butcher certain iconic scenes from the series by adding in shitty visual directing as well having a laughable script that wasn’t present in the original series at all.
Before we talk about my favorite part of this movie let’s quickly talk about the rebirth part of the movie. Despite being the first 30 minutes of End Of Evangelion where it actually has new scenes that never existed in the TV series it’s still a pointless teaser for End Of Evangelion movie where once again it only exists just to lazily draw people in. I won’t be talking about the Rebirth part of the movie because I will be talking about it in my End of Evangelion review.
Now with that said let’s get to my favorite part of this movie the 4 minutes and 24-second intermission. No joke. That intermission countdown along was the best thing to come out from this movie because not only it features relaxing and chilling music but the almost fully black screen fully symbolize that the series from this point onwards is going to hell. This is easily the best part about this pointless movie.
As for the visuals minus the intermission screen and the rebirth apart of the film, the visuals were shit overall thanks to the creators lazily reusing footage of the series but somehow making the visual and audio quality worse than the TV series.
Music is still great as ever but that’s should be expected at this point. The same thing can apply for the voice acting not counting that horrendous English Dub for it.
Overall minus the amazing intermission countdown screen, this movie is absolutely pointless. The Death part of the movie was horrendously directed to the aboustly core, the rebirth part of the movie despite being a 30-minute teaser of End Of Evangelion is a shitty attempt at drawing the audience in and the visuals quality in the movie is shit.
If your planning to check out the Evangelion series go watch the TV series instead. This movie is not worth your time at all.
Final Score 2/10
