First things first: blatant false advertisement. The poster and trailer show mecha fighting in a new city that wasn't featured in the series, and it looks awesome. But that footage from the trailer is basically ALL of the new content. Other than that tiny bit, the entire movie is just a summary of the series. Why make the new footage of events that are not part of the movie? Why rely on that new footage for the trailer and poster? The only reason is to attract fans of the series, by tricking them without outright lies, alongside new viewers.
Onto the actual movie itself: fake new content aside, it is a poor summary of a good series. Cutting clips from approximately 10 hours of footage which was designed to work as a 25-episode series down to a 2.5 hour movie is always going to be a tricky undertaking, and it certainly didn't go well this time. A lot of context is missing, character development is cut out, and if I hadn't already watched the series so I could fill in the blanks I think several bits would have been quite confusing. Except, having watched the series, there isn't really any reason to watch this poorly-stitched-together summary, making its very existence pointless and redundant.
I can only conclude that this is a cheap money-making scam, and I wish I could get back the time I wasted watching it.
