May 18, 2022
This movie hits a lot of right spots and a lot of bad spots.
First off, with everyone saying the animation was bad; it was a single action scene that maybe went on for too long and wasn't even that bad. I found it interesting to look at and enjoyed seeing something new. I will not deny that it looks a tad unpolished though.
I think what this movie really hinged on was its characters. It very successfully established one of the main protagonists of this movie, Rody, in a concise yet efficient manner. I can understand his motivations and sympathize with him. I can even excuse
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some of his more questionable actions due to it fitting his character very well. He was easily the best character in the entire movie and maybe even the whole franchise.
I wish I could say the same for the main antagonist... I won't reveal much for the sake of spoilers, but he needed WAY more fleshing out than he got. He shows up for 10 seconds in the first half of the movie, and while his goals are made clear, his actual motivation and backstory is just randomly dropped in a couple lines of dialogue during the final battle in the latter half of the movie. It was so weak. This was the problem I also had with the second MHA movie.
I found it very hard to care for the villain of this movie, and I really wanted to. He could've been so much greater than he was, and all we really needed was just a few minutes in the first act dedicated to some exposition the same done with Rody.
Everything else was great, however. Especially the animation and payoff for the fight scenes. If you're a Hero Academia fan, you probably already know that it likes to have a lot of down time in between fights just to flesh out the characters a bit (which is fine by me). Some people don't enjoy that, which is why they may find many scenes boring.
Overall the movie is a 7/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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