I had high hopes for this movie since there are so many glowing reviews that praise the intelligent story, psychology, deep characters and the beautiful artwork. However, all I found was a forced dialog with forced depth that ended up preaching through most of the movie with lame arm-chair psychology that lacked any depth. I don't mind endless dialog when the characters have intelligent, intriguing things to say but the ideas within the dialog in this movie were neither original or interesting. If you've read some psych books, you've read it before... and if you've watched other psychological shows, you've heard the same concepts explained in better detail and in more depth. I think they did manage to fool the masses into thinking that this movie is a work of psychological genius though. At best it is a movie of cobbled together psychological/philosophical concepts that the writers themselves poorly understood to make it "sound" intelligent.
The character, Shiki, is interesting though, and may convince me to watch the other movies... maybe.
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