Reviews

Now, since this movie hasn't been seen by a lot of people, I going to keep my review somewhat vague. Let's just say I was disappointed. After seeing the masterpiece that was 2.0, I was expecting a lot from 3.0, and boy was I let down! For the story, its been 14 years since the events that happened at the end of 2.0 and a LOT has changed. I'm not going to spoil it but let's just say that for how much has changed, not a lot really happens in this installment, and it seems to be almost like the filler movie of the series. Also, I sure hope you didn't care about pretty much every key character in 1.0 and 2.0, because they are barely featured. Misato, Asuka, Rei and several others are pushed to the side when really as an audience we want to see them and how they have changed in those 14 years, but we don't get that. Since there is a timeskip, there's barely any character development, Shinji is back to his old self, and like I said before, the key characters from the last 2 movies get barely any screentime, all the development happened within those 14 years we didn't get to see. We are introduced to two new characters, but I'm using "introduced" in the loosest sense here. As always, the animation is quite good, the music is nice, and I actually liked the interactions between Shinji and Kaworu during the middle of the movie, so there is some good here. Overall, nice art, but terrible story.