SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Donald F From what I heard, Gundam Seed is essentially a remake of Gundam Uno. Gundam Seed Destiny starts out as a remake of Gundam Seed, disguised as a sequel. The suits may be different, and we have new characters, but too much is familiar. Athrun is back with ZAFT and fighting against Kira, Kira is still trying to force peace, the Earth Federation is as evil as ever, and is still using drugged psychopaths. The action is better, but we still spend more than enough time on the cruiser, with characters not strong enough to warrant the time spent.Finally, Destiny begins to pick up. Kira's interventions are only making the battlefield chaotic. Shin loses a friend and a lover (you don't believe either relationship, but regardless...) and swears revenge. Shin is developing, and Kira is no longer a perfect hero. He's like an anime Superman, powerful and virtuous, but narrow-minded and immature. In retrospect, his fight with Rau is (un)intentional genius. Rau argues humans will never learn to live with each other, and Kira can say nothing to debunk him. He believes in doing the right thing, no matter what. And because of this, Shin kills him.Just kidding. Kira "Jesus" Yamato is just as explosionproof as he was in Seed.After that peak, the show rapidly descends downhill. Oh, its still copying Seed, but now the writers no longer give a crap. Relationships are forced, characters do 180s, and plot-twists come out of nowhere. Worst of all, the only real conflict is ruined. Instead of relative neutrality, they frame Kira and company as our peaceful heroes, Shin and the rest as misguided antagonists. Shin believes in the Destiny Program for no good reason. Kira has learned absolutely nothing from this journey.Clip shows, unresolved character conflicts, Mu's corpse pulled out of his grave. Stupid, stupid, stupid! I like the fights, the mecha designs, the openings and closings...not worth it. It might as well not exist.

Chaell Cyras !!!MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE REVIEW!!!The series started out interesting. New characters (immediately committing a massacre in episode 1), new reasons for war (Colonydrop on Earth and a repeat Nuke attack at the PLANTS(exactly same footage as ending of Seed..)) and to my delight returning old characters.Sadly Cagalli being one of them, who, to make it worse, is even more annoying than in SEED. She first puts Orb in the psychotic Blue Cosmos- led Earth Alliance (EA from now on)(I can understand that, because else the EA will destroy ORB yet again). Yet later when she has joined the Archangel, she's constantly ordering Orb forces to stop fighting, while it is because of her that they have to fight in the first place! But if they stop fighting, the EA will once again destroy them etc. Vicious cycle, make up your mind already!Even worse is when ZAFT is invading Orb for the SOLE PURPOSE of capturing Lord Jibril. She overthrows Yuna Roma and takes control of Orb, but does she try to STOP THE FIGHTING (like she tried the whole SEED and SEED Destiny series)? Maybe CONTACT ZAFT and tell them: "Hey! We know you want Jibril and he's in Orb, we are hunting him so stop attacking please!"? Nope, she launches an all-out attack on ZAFT killing hundreds more people for absolutely no reason. WHAT?Then there's Shin, constantly nagging at Cagalli (Which I'd be fine with were it for aforementioned reasons, but nu-uh). According to him his parents died because the EA attacked Orb, seemingly because Orb (Lord Uzumi to be precise, NOT Cagalli) stuck to it's ideals too much. But when Cagalli decides to abandon Orb's ideals to protect the population, and joins the EA, he's still whining because this time they're traitors!... His hypocrisy knows no bounds, as, whereas he's traumatized because he lost his family, instead of following Kira's example of non- killing, he keeps stomping cockpits and shattering hundreds of families himself.Speaking of hypocrites... Lacus Cleyne. Near the end of the series, when 2 parties keep interrupting each other's worldwide broadcasts(seems to be ridiculously easy in the future), The real Lacus (HypoLacus from now on) is blurting out an amazing amount of nonsense about her fake clone counterpart, WannabeLacus:-"She and I are 2 completely different people-No? All the WannabeLacus has been doing the entire series is dampening the rage of the PLANT population with hippie-peace talk and a repeat of the same cheeky songs over and over, EXACTLY what HypoLacus has been doing the entire SEED series. By all means, HypoLacus should be grateful, else Durandil wouldn't have been able to stem the rage tide and the following war could've been much worse.-and our beliefs are just as different as well"WannabeLacus stated that their anger should be directed to Lord Jibril, and that everyone should work together to apprehend this psycho racist maniac. So you don't have this belief? Really HypoLacus? You want to bring down Chairman Durandil who is helping innocent people on Earth, directing attacks only at LOGOS (>>THE<< reason for all the wars in world) and preventing as many casualties on the EA as possible, while Lord Jibril went around and:-Attempted nuking the PLANTS (AGAIN!) -Wiped out Berlin and 2 entire other cities along with tons of innocent people -Conducted horrible experiments on genetically enhanced child-soldiers (Extendeds) -Stated he wanted to wipe out every single coordinator (Including you HypoLacus)Really? And later on, when Jibril destroys 6 PLANT colonies, killing another few million people, HypoLacus apparently gives sod-all and claims they still have to stop Durandil! JIBRIL IS STILL ALIVE! The ZAFT forces only killed 1 of those EA Beam Reflectors. They still had like 10 left, and could easily move another one in position to slaughter another few million more people. Yes Durandil wants to execute a Destiny Plan, but to install that takes a hell of a lot of effort and time, and it doesn't slaughter millions of innocents instantly, you can stop him LATER!Rey does that actually... Loyal to the death to Durandil the entire show, but a few words from Kira and he back-stabs him... That's just weak, and lame.Okay some positive characters:-Mu Laflaga! I know I know, his death would've had a lot of meaning if he had actually died in SEED. But in HypocritLand it's hard to find someone who isn't Emo and hypocrite, and cool at the same time. Finally a hero, with cool quotes, that doesn't need an overpowered suit that kills entire armies without taking a scratch, to make a difference (like Kira, doesn't even fight anymore when he loses his Freedom... wussy).-Athren Zala. He grows a lot throughout SEED and SEED Destiny, expresses emotions accordingly, makes sense and fights in whatever suit there's available.Lastly, I enjoyed most of the battles. Deaths of main characters made quite an impact, especially cause most of their deaths came so unexpected (Like Heine ,very cool character BTW). And Stella, I expected she'd jump on the Gundampilot Girlfriend Bandwagon, mainly due to the Seed Destiny intro clips).The story could've been a lot cooler were it not for several annoying characters, but if you don't care for that, I think it's worth the effort to watch through both Seed and Seed Destiny. But there are better Gundams out there!

Carlsbad Reynolds My first true experience with Gundam was through the Wing series when it was shown in the US via Cartoon Network. From then on I watched the 3rd movie of the original, Double Zeta, Char's Counterattack, Victory, and a few episodes of Turn-A. And I appreciated Yoshiyuki Tomino's ability to tell a good war-based story (despite the lighter mood in Double Zeta and Turn-A). And my opinion of him didn't change after I found out that Tomino had psychological problems.I started watching Gundam Seed Destiny with the hopes of seeing a "Gundam" title return to its roots. But after episode 21, I lost all hope for anything animated in Japan and having to do with war.Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa are the two people to blame for this series. How many more "re-cap episodes," rewritten specials, and re-usage of base images must they require in order to be satisfied with their end product? Why make a lead character (who had an actually good story to tell) along with a set of new characters when their next step is to shine the spotlight on the old set of characters? I know the lead singer from TM Revolution had a busy schedule, but why does he have to play some "shining cannon-fodder" who lasts less than 5 episodes?I had my opinions of this series booted off of review sites because of my "bias." But isn't it our duty as viewers of media to commit to some "whistle-blowing" whenever we see something wrong? If a director, producer, and/or screenwriter rely too much on lazy re-caps, re-usage of images, and "specials" based on re-used and re-edited scenes; then one wonders why people like them have been hired or are still employed.

silent_killer_195 Gundam SEED Destiny, the direct sequel to Gundam SEED, got off to a great start. We were thrown into battle that raged on and off for 4 to 5 episodes non-stop, and our hopes were high. There were new characters that had stories to be told, and a new plot to be delivered. But, this all stopped before the series even hit the 20th episode. Instead of the new characters being in the spotlight, Lacus and the crew came in and took it back. Athrun was left in the cold, and it became the Jesus Yamato show. Instead of seeing intense battles, we get to see Freedom strike the same pose over and over again as hundreds of grunt units explode.Gundam SEED retained elements from the older, more war oriented Gundam series, which made it easily watchable and quite entertaining if you could get by the re-use of the same frames. But SEED Destiny became a "super robot" show in which the main characters suits could easily take out an entire fleet without getting a scratch. The new suits, while flashy, are just blatant copies of UC suits. Pumping up a Zaku and giving it a huge backpack doesn't mean you've created a new suit.Destiny had the potential to be as good as SEED, but it ended up destroying itself by becoming a super robot show filled with Gundams.I give it 3 out of 10 stars, because it did have a good start.