However, if you liked the philosophy and psychology presented in the final two episode of the anime, I recommend you stay away from this. It rehashes some the stuff put forth in Shinji's mind at the end of the final episode, but with the twist that he doesn't find the resolve he appears to at the end of the anime and not as well fleshed out.
The rehash of the psychological and the philosophical are even more shallow here, and doesn't get one to think about one's own life as much as some of the question posed by the original. Instead you get to see what happens from the storyline and SPOILERS, it's a story about everyone getting merged into a single source.
I like that they should Asuka as a cocky badass like her character was supposed to be, and I like that it decided to go that extra step to show us how things turned out for all the other characters, but I feel the ending I imagined walking away from the anime's open ending was better.
To sum my feelings up on the movie, I've seen Gun X Sword, Mirai Nikki and TTGL and all of them took the ideas and concepts here and did them better. They probably got it from this movie, but that just goes to show how it has been succeeded by better anime using the same concepts. The movie just doesn't live up to precedent of the anime and ends up being a major let down.
