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Well... this is the first time I've deviated so much from the consensus. I really wanted to like this movie, but unfortunately I just wasn't able to be entertained. I watched all seven movies on Amazon Prime video,and I liked every single entry except this one.

The major problems that I had with this movie have to do with the thoroughly annoying and uninteresting villain, the forced melodrama, and some plot holes.

The villain in this movie is introduced fairly early on relative to the previous movies in the series. However, this villain is also the least interesting villain in the entire series - which is saying ... a lot since some of the previous movies had some really dull antagonists. His intentions and motivations are all in your face and incredibly cliche and his only purpose in this movie was to force a moral quandary onto Shiki. Additionally, his over the top personality, which consists of mainly jumping around like a god damn monkey, screaming, and acting like a maniacal pervert, got old real quick.

Additionally the philosophy aspect really doesn't add much to the story compared to the previous films. In this story it mainly has to do with Kokutou's no kill rule, which I can respect. But then they add in all this fluff where Shiki feels oh so lonely, or that she loves Kokutou and she doesn't want to hurt him ... blah blah blah. In the end there's just so much of it that it just comes off as feeling forced.

Additionally there was one major plot hole that kind of set me off. It has to do with a scene where Kokutou is an abandoned ware house towards the end of the film. Here it just felt like the creators didn't have the balls to complete the story with what should have been the natural progression (those of you who have already seen the movie probably know what I'm talking about). Additionally there were some other minor problems with previous antagonists being reintroduced into the story without any real insight into their significance in the plot line. Honestly, this didn't bother me too much. Also I didn't like the whole drugs subplot.

There were some good things as well, like the animation and the soundtrack, but as a whole, the negatives outweigh the positives by a large margin.

This is my first real review, so I know it's kind of bad and all over the place. I'll just add that if you liked the movie, then that's cool too. I'm not here to hate on anyone, I just wanted to add my own two cents into the mix. Thanks for reading!