With this adaptation, I have finally lost all interest in the Fate series. I am fed up of being disappointed again and again. The movie might have the best animation ever and ost produced by Kajiura Yuki herself, still the lack of good characters can turn any show bad. There was a time when I had finished Fate/zero , I had declared it the best anime ever. Since then, it's just been disappointment.
After watching UBW, I was ready beforehand for the show to have no good characters. Hence I focused more on the plot. So I watched the first two movie. And honestly, they were pretty decent as they had good story building and the overall plot is great. Then we come to the third movie. Here, the first half was very much predictable and not a lot happened. Then we had some good fights. It goes without saying that it easily has one of the greatest animation ever (Ufotable as usual). Rider vs Saber Alter was amazing (tho I'd say Saber Alter vs Berserker in Movie 2 was slightly better). And then we had....... Rin Tohsaka. Rin has a huge fanbase behind her, but to me, she's always been annoying. Her conversation with Sakura annoyed me to no end. Anyways, after that we had Emiya vs Kirei. There was Emiya vs Archer in UBW that had some of the most pointless dialogues ever in anime. This time those pointless dialogue were used here. Dialogues make a fight amazing. My mind goes back to Gintoki vs Takasugi in Gintama. Or even in Fate/zero, Kiritsugu vs Kirei - the dialogue elevated the quality of the fight. Here.... We have Emiya. Arguably the most boring and bland anime protagonist whose plot Armor never runs out of gas. He has a plot Armor heavier than any shounen anime protagonist. Anyways, the entire plot development that happened till now went haywire after the Rider vs Saber fight. Things just happened for no reason. Earlier, Kirei had killed the ugly bastard (old man Matou). But guess what, he was still alive. Sakura had killed Kirei. But guess what, he was also alive. Then what the hell was even the point of showing that? Nobody cares. For the first two movies, there was a certain True Assassin roaming around killing other Servants. We don't even get to know who or what he is. Poor guy was just a filler character, I guess. The music in the anime is given by Kajiura Yuki, who is my favourite composer. Still, the anime lacked good music in the first half - which was compensated in the second half that had some really good ost.....
All in all, it was a disappointing watch for me. I'd definitely give it points for animation and soundtrack and a decent first half. But still, this movie just made the series boring for me.
7/10.
