Delight
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
domain-5
Hello!AS A MOVIE, this is simply GODAWFUL.(YES, I have seen the entire TV series, which I considered quite good overall.)This movie was slapped together with zero thought, effort, or money, and was released ONLY to GET MORE CASH. NO other reason.As far as I can tell, the first 2/3's of the movie is simply an incomprehensible mishmash of sections of the TV anime series randomly strung together.I am NOT joking!A section from the end of the TV series will be followed with a section from the beginning, then the middle, in a nonsensical way without rhyme or reason.One scene from the series, was split into two or three different parts spread out through the movie, with them trying to pretend that it was a different scene, every time! (Since I've seen the entire TV series, YES, I understood completely WHERE each scene was taken from, and what it's importance was within the TV series, BUT, the way it was edited together for the movie, made no sense whatsoever!)Robot battles would erupt with no reason, and end. A scene would occur BEFORE a required scene setting it up; which would only show up later.The last third is the first actual new stuff (Yes, yes, some die hard fan will point out that maybe a couple of minutes of new stuff was added to the first 2/3's of the movie, to which I say, so what? The extra couple of minutes added NOTHING.)Now the LAST third, the new material, was almost watchable. HOWEVER, the movie ABRUPTLY ends, right in the middle of a scene, with no resolution of any kind, NOTHING! Just BLAM!, over! (presumably because they were too cheap to add any more.)AND, since the cheapskate, lazy, tightwads that put this garbage together, completely REPEAT this NEW section IN IT'S ENTIRETY, as the beginning third of the next movie, "The End of Evangelion", you don't even need to watch that part!So the final word?Watch the complete TV series, "Neon Genesis Evangelion". (WARNING: Many people don't like the ending of the TV series "Neon Genesis Evangelion".)SKIP the incomprehensible garbage money grubbing movie "Evangelion: Death and Rebirth".THEN, watch the movie "The End of Evangelion". (WARNING: Many people don't like the ending of the movie "The End of Evangelion".)I GUARANTEE, you WON'T miss anything worth watching. You'll save yourself from watching endless, cheapskate, lazy repetition after repetition with no point whatsoever (except to make the lazy, greedy filmmakers extra money).DON'T believe the people who say that this movie is too complex to follow without having watched the TV series. That is absurd nonsense. I think they're only saying that to sucker more people into watching this garbage, along with them.Don't be suckered in!My 2¢ worth.Karl
mmushrm
Just watched this after not having watched any Evangelion material for many many years. Supposedly it is a new ending from the TV series. I cant confirmed as i stopped watching the series before its conclusion. Watching this reminded me of why I stopped watching the series...basically I cannot stand the main character Shinji. I found and still find the character pathetic and absolutely disgusting. I could not find any attachment to him and so the story arch and the philosophy of the ending to me was a by product of the weak, self pitying, pathetic Shinji as opposed to any philosophical message. The movie shows him after he have been reduced to a pathetic useless self pitying mess. The battle scene and the ending sequence was very well rendered. A must see if you are a fan of Evangelion
Flying_Arsedoctor
10/10 for the fact that most of the material was taken from an excellent TV series and a good film.2/10 for the lack of new material and rather uninspired way in which 24 episodes were summarised, meaning that this isn't really a film as much as an overview.Leaving me with 6/10. Couldn't be fairer than that.
rsaavedra
I think this movie is too fragmented and interrupted for someone who (like me) is a complete neophyte to the Evangelion TV series. It seems to be an ambitious summary, made by cutting/pasting small and sparse fragments of relevant chapters or events of the long series into the much more limited movie time frame. I haven't seen the series but judging from the movie alone it is way too fragmented and over-compressed. It gave me an impression of too many omissions of important developments, and I found it somewhat frustrating to try to follow. Obviously the makers assumed the viewers would know some things about Evangelion that I didn't know at all. Some examples of the weak points I found: at some times the movie suddenly starts explaining (e.g. resolving) some issues as if it was perfectly clear to the viewer that those were pending issues in the plot, when I didn't even had a clue about the existence of those issues in the movie. Also some characters are just shown in one scene, and in the next their true nature is suddenly revealed, with no development in between. On the good side, I was particularly impressed with the musical fragments in the movie, absolutely beautiful, particularly the Bach one. If I ever have the opportunity I'll try to watch the first chapters of the series to get into it, instead of (or before) trying to follow this movie. I would recommend the same to anyone that is not initiated in the series.
