Meitantei Conan Movie 20: Junkoku no Nightmare

On a dark night, the Japanese police is raided by a spy. Different countries' intelligence agencies—such as England's MI6, Germany's BND, and America's CIA—as well as the FBI's secret files are going to be taken, but public safety officers lead by Tooru Amuro arrive just in time. The spy steals a car and escapes. The spy and Amuro are then locked in a dead heat on the highway, and just as it is about to cause an accident with multiple cars, the spy's car is hit by FBI agent Shuichi Akai's rifle bullet and falls of the roadway.
The next day, Conan and his friends go to a newly-remodeled aquarium in Tokyo. Under the main attraction, a Ferris wheel, Conan finds an attractive woman alone and injured. Her left and right eyes are different colors.

But the woman is in a state of amnesia where she doesn't even remember her own name, and the cellphone she's carrying is broken. Conan and his friends promise to help her regain her memory, so they stay with her.

Throughout all this, Vermouth is watching behind the scenes. Afterwards, she pulls out a silencer and speaks into an attached intercom, "It's as planned, Gin."

Edogawa, Conan Main

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Haibara, Ai Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Curaçao Main

Amami, Yuuki Japanese

Akai, Shuuichi Supporting

Ikeda, Shuuichi Japanese

Mouri, Ran Supporting

Yamazaki, Wakana Japanese

Amuro, Tooru Supporting

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Mouri, Kogorou Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Vermouth Supporting

Koyama, Mami Japanese

Gin Supporting

Hori, Yukitoshi Japanese

Takagi, Wataru Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Suwa, Michihiko Producer

Kondou, Shuuhou Producer

Ishiyama, Keiichi Producer

Yonekura, Yoshihito Assistant Producer

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Jun 2, 2016

Abdullahonline

Recommended

I just saw the movie today at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku, Tokyo.

I enjoyed every minute of this masterpiece. The way he organized the characters and how he managed to fit everything perfectly is just amazing.

The best parts of the movie are the beginning and the ending. As a fan of Detective Conan I feel like this movie is placed perfectly as the 20th movie.

I don't want to spoil anything so I just commented on the general stuff for now.

Likes:
- Story: with the black organization you can't go wrong.
... - Characters: Excellent choices with an introduction of new ones.
- Animation: Astonishing, especially in this action-filled movie.

Dislikes:
- None

Can't for next year's movie ツ

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 15, 2016

jin0ugaaa

Mixed Feelings

[CONTAINS SPOILERS]

If you thought the Dimensional Sniper was bad, just wait till you watch this.

The Darkest Nightmare is the 20th movie of the Detective Conan franchise, and is in my opinion, the worst of all the movies. Why? Let me explain.

The movie opens with an exciting car chase, with Bourbon (Amuro Tooru) and Akai Shuichi chasing down a black organisation member with ridiculous physical prowess. After a lengthy and tense chase down the highway, the BO member manages to escape. Injured and disoriented, she makes her way down an alley and comes in full view of a light show projected the amusement park across ... the river, and promptly collapses after screaming her lungs out.

It was at this point that I was beginning to feel slightly iffy, because what the fuck? The events leading up to that very scene were…kinda dumb. Mysteries are one thing, but what just played out on screen seriously needed tremendous leaps of logic. The car chase left me high on adrenaline no doubt, but it was decent at best. Stupid at worst.

But moving on. As I was saying, the magic of the movie had already started wearing off and I was like, what? Ten minutes into the movie? Not a particularly good sign. Still, I bit back the cynicism and tried to give the rest of the movie a fair chance. Needless to say, The Darkest Nightmare proceeded to disappoint me at every turn.

Story: 5/10

The plot is joke. The movies in this franchise have always been brilliant but after The Quarter of Silence (15th movie), I feel like the movies have really been dropping in quality. One thing I disliked greatly about The Darkest Nightmare (And the recent slew of DC movies; namely, 16th to 20th) was the fact that it substituted clever writing for gratuitous action. I’m not saying action is bad. Far from it. When used correctly, action can bring a movie to new heights. Here, all it does is make the movie even more brainless.

The story wasn’t all that intriguing to begin with, there’s no mystery or subtlety. Zero, zilch. I give the movie props for trying to spin a new perspective on the Black Organisation, but the way it goes about it does more harm to the characters than helping it. There are many many scenes in the movie where the BO characters seem like freaking idiots. If you watched the anime or read the manga, BO has always prioritised secrecy over everything else.

That’s why Shinichi was ‘killed’. That’s why he does everything he can possibly think off to keep them off his scent.

And suddenly, this movie just goes ‘fuck it’ and has the BO characters go on a rampage that is not remotely secret. Like, what the hell? There is no way, no way they would do what they did in this movie.

Characters: 3/10

Speaking of characters. Remember that BO character Bourbon and Akai had been chasing? Yeah, apparently she’s best buds with the Shonen Tantei. Like. What? I mean, I can understand how she’d ended up being all mushy with them – they’re kids after all – but the actions she does throughout the movie are highly questionable. Even for a person with Amnesia, how she acts is total 180 from the person she really is. And what she does in the ending is seriously, really, dumb. Even if she did care for the Shonen tantei, I doubt that she would go that far for them. The BO ain’t exactly a sympathetic group of criminals, folks. There’s no heart of gold under the blackened exterior.

The usual characters, Ran, Kogoro, Agasa and Sonoko make their appearance in the movie, but they mattered so little to the plot, other than giving the events a valid reason to occur, that they could’ve been replaced for potted plants for all I cared. I personally find it very upsetting that they were slotted in the way they were. Very two dimensional. They may sound like them and act like them – but they’re mere shells that exist to remind you that yes, this is a Detective Conan movie. In the grand scheme of things, I rather they not appeared in the movie at all.

Animation: 7/10

Pretty much standard for a DC movie, though the action scenes after the car chase scene left little to be desired.

Also, remember the usual exposition we get at the start of every DC movie? It sucked. Sucked really bad. The editing was enough to make my eyes hurt, the exposition being said didn’t line up with what was playing on the screen. I get that they want to shake up the formula a little, what with this being the 20th movie and all, but damn. The phrase ‘Don’t fix what’s broken’ has never rung truer.

Overall: 5/10

I wish I could scrub this movie from my mind. This is no Countdown to the Heaven, or The Raven chaser. This movie could’ve been great. But it wasn’t.

On a side note, I did a little digging and looked up the director of The Darkest Nightmare, and pretty much found the reason why the movies have been the way they’ve been. Movie 16th to 20th were directed by Kobun Shizuno. Out of the 4 movies he directed, I only enjoyed The private eye in the distant sea, and tolerated The Sunflowers of Inferno. I seriously hope his next movie isn’t as big of a disaster as this one.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 1, 2016

Kou39

Not Recommended

Alright big Conan fan here. I'll keep it short, this is probably the worst Conan movie I've seen.

1. Unlike all the other movies, it doesn't have any mystery in it. I mean, how do you even come up with the idea of not putting any mystery in a detective show? That's awful.

2. They basically ruined the image of BO, making them look like Team Rocket rather than some shadow government type of organization.

3. Some scenes were straight up ridiculous. Look, I get it that Conan movies need to have action scenes, but no, you cannot stop a disaster that is suppose to kill hundreds of ... people using an inflatable football.
Also, there's a scene at the beginning where a car flew like 100m into the air, crushed on the ground and all the passengers got out of the car like nothing happened, literally what?

4. No, the animation is not good just because of those 2 sequences that had high fps. The movements were terrible, I don't care who you are, you can't just randomly jump 20m high while doing 5 backflips, this is not one piece. Also those CGI background characters were hurting my eyes.

5. If you don't follow Conan, you'll probably get confused by all the story-related characters. If you do follow Conan, you will be disappointed by how they presented those characters.


I gave "Captured in her Eyes" a 8/10, this one is at best a 3/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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