The problem I have here is that it seems to me everyone collectively forgot the first two acts of this. The first 45 minutes of this 82-minute movie are largely uninteresting. Not much happens and there's not much for me to hang on to. Most importantly, there isn't even that great a set up--it feels like that amazing conclusion could have come out of any other movie. To provide a contrast, Oーdishon is a movie with a truly spectacular final act whose first two acts are essential for the third to have the impact it does. Here, there isn't any sort of benefit that comes out of those first two acts, they just sit there to check the box that the movie has an introduction.
That all said, it was completely worth sitting through an uninteresting 45 minutes for how great the end of this thing was. The dream sequences are gorgeously animated with so much imagery to chew on. The use of color is just immaculate--I love the deep reds that come so often with blood. The environments drawn are just sublime. What might have impressed me the most was how this was cut together--that scene***SPOILERS***where she killed the camera intercut with the photoshoot literally could not have been more perfect. More than all that, the character deterioration that we see through the lead is just so well done. Watching her go down this road of hallucination and violence is unbelievably compelling at every turn. There are not many final acts that are as good as this, and it makes everything else in the movie entirely worth watching.
Paーfekuto buruー is certainly a flawed movie--that is, 2/3rds of this is mostly pointless, but in the end that doesn't really matter to me that much. The final act is so spectacular that I entirely forgot about the mediocrity of the rest of the film, and I think that will be an extremely common experience. So, with the caveat that this will take quite a while to get going, I'd definitely recommend going ahead and giving this a watch if you haven't already.
