This first movie follows the first "arc" of the game, until a certain rescue happens. First thing you notice when the movie begins is the art, it's definitely movie quality and still holds up greatly in 2021, it's clear that a lot of money was put into it. Action scenes are really good looking but most of the time you'll only see people walking or talking, which is expected but dissappointing notheless.
The story is pretty average, you have typical teenagers with super powers that go to school by day and fight to protect the world at night, more emphasis could be put in how they balance their daily life with the task of saving the world, but nothing of that sort happens here. They don't have any trouble at all managing both lifes.
The characters are below average, they are still not developed at all in this movie and the protagonist only has two sides, being silent or rude and sarcastic. The supporting cast is even worst as they only follow typical anime cliches, there's the funny dumb guy, there's the girl, there's the smart rich girl, there's the cool but also dumb guy and the shy girl.
The music used in the movie is pretty mediocre, the game had good tracks but they don't fit well in a movie. The beggining was specially cringe-inducing as the song "Burn my dread" performed while the protagonist was on a train doing nothing.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie. As a fan of the game I was already prepared for something mediocre, but fun, and as many movies based on videogames, there's no reason to watch this if you don't know the source material. As a standalone film is incomplete and average at best.
