OKAY. I might get hate for this but compared to the other movies of Detective Conan, this isn't really up there. Maybe I expected too much, especially this movie focuses on the Akai family, which arguably has the most favorite or most-loved characters in the series.
And if you compare Shu from Movie 20 to this one?? The difference is just too big.
The whole Akai family didn't seem like the main characters for the movie that 'centers' around them. They were mostly there just to talk with Conan or show themselves, but were not really involved in solving the case cause they only looked like assistants to Conan (not that this doesn't happen in the other movies or in the anime but you get the point)
Moreover, I'm so disappointed as to how little the roles of Mary and Shukichi were in this movie. Shukichi has a lot to contribute in crimes/cases especially in deduction since he's a good strategist and is presented as a very intelligent character but in this movie he was reduced here to being a 'boyfriend'. I love his relationship with Yumi and all but pls this ain't it. Mary was just being edgy and mysterious throughout the movie and it was annoying, like I get that her full story or background isn't shown in the anime yet and that's why she couldn't do much and expose what she could do, but she looked so useless here I can't- T_T
Also the plot's a bit all over the place?? If compared to the previous movies, this one's a bit confusing and in general wasn't really engaging. The trailer shows that this movie was related to the Olympics but after watching, it didn't really seem like that.
To end, I'm not saying that this movie was so bad or appalling. In my opinion, it's just a difference in the level of hype that I felt from when I watched the trailer and when I watched the actual movie. I had all these expectations and when they weren't satisfied, my mind just decided to not like it as much as I did with the previous DetCo movies.
I do hope that they make another movie with the whole Akai family or Shukichi and Mary. They need a redemption arc after this movie O.O
