I actually kind of like the concept that our real world is what's on the other side of the gate. It's a little wonky and doesn't work at all in the original continuity but as a premise it's fine. It's a reverse Isekai. Let's go. I'm on board. I think it's interesting seeing how Ed interacts with the real world counterparts of people he knew in what I'm going to call Amestris even though it's never officially given that name in the 2003 anime. I think the WWII setting was a neat idea, I like how Hughes is a Nazi now, or the Jewish film director in place of Bradley. The Nazi occult stuff is always a good excuse to do magic in the real world, Wolfenstein games have been doing it since forever. This would have been a really interesting world to visit, and the challenges of coming back from that world to Amestris would have been a nice adventure.
But boy oh boy did they think they'd throw us for a loop and instead have Al come and live in a now post-war Germany instead. No plans to return to Amestris. I guess forget Winry, who cares about Mustang and the rest of the military. It's like they forgot that one episode where the boys remember that they still have a home in Resembool and all the people they left behind when they were off adventuring. They even did an OVA joking about just how messed up it is that they left everyone behind to have some new crazy adventure with rockets in another world. Winry in this movie just looks so broken when she realized Ed apparently doesn't really care about her at all. I hate that ending, I think it's really dumb, they should have just brought Ed back. Other than that it has the makings of a decent enough anime movie, 7 out of 10.
