Nov 18, 2020
Non Spoiler Review!
The culmination of 16 years worth of Fate's main story comes to a close a little later than Spring arrived... Fate/Stay Night Movie: Heaven's Feel III Spring Song has a daunting task of completing and answering every important character and narrative thread left hanging from the several Fate/Stay Night adaptations and Fate/Zero. To the films credit, it does handle this task well enough while also creating the perfect balancing act satisfying VN readers and Anime Only viewers alike.. However, this can be seen as a slight detriment to the movie's direction.
This film accurately depicts the core themes and values present in Heaven's Feel
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while also feeding the viewer with important to know exposition. Most actions in this movie are explained and others that are more subtle are fairly noticeable with visual cues. The story really does its best to provide the viewer with this comfort prior to the ending. The characters themselves are also fleshed out. Their motivations and weaknesses... The physical and mental fatigue the war has taken on them... Everything is there but the pieces can flash by too quickly.
This brings me to my minor criticisms. Nothing of major detriment is cut in this film and it does explain its story and characters competently. That also means it has to do so quickly and in rapid succession. You feel what is happening on screen but many scenes don't allow you to linger for too long on that feeling and this is a glaring direction flaw. The biggest example is the ending. It's somewhat easy to infer what has happened but the film itself has a priority to end it before it's out of runtime. The self satisfaction doesn't last quite as long as some would like.
With all that said, I do believe this film performs well as a finale to a mostly well received trilogy and provides enough to both readers of the source and first time viewers. Anyone who has seen any of the Fate/Stay Night adaptations and Fate/Zero most certainly should watch the Trilogy and specifically this movie for a full complete story of the 5th Holy Grail War!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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