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This opinion will be based on the trilogy after watching the three today. As a Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: UBW fan, I can say these three movies are bad. Period.

I was very excited to watch all of these and when I started I was not only taken aback by the pacing of the narrative but also by the character's lack of development whatsoever. As a trilogy, it's just not good story-wise, character wise. In general terms I think I'd say these are shallow films. Pretty, very much so, but only pretty. There's no depth. There's no development. There's no clear ending. Story-arcs are incomplete ... or rushed. Characters' personalities are abhorrent. I don't really mind falling into clichés, but Sakura was just a disappointment. Second film being basically soft-p0rn or straight up p0rn... yea I could not make sense of that.
I won't argue about Sakura and Shiro being canon (cuz I guess it has some truth to it) but in my eyes there was never an inch of romantic love between the two, they only resembled sibilings to me. So the whole romance story line just felt forced and pushed.
There's little context as to when all of this is happening and it's frustrating as audience because you are watching very much confused all the time what's happening onscreen. One minute they're doing daily life and the next minute they're fighting between Servants-Masters. In any of the three movies there's a proper explanation as to what's going to happen next. It seems like Ufotable only went for pretty fights and nice animations/soundtrack, but nowadays that shouldn't be the aim to be honest.

Yes, it has impecable animations and fight scenes. It has impecable color grading scenery and a very good soundtrack. If they didn't have any of these, they wouldn't have probably released them at all.
Do I recommend you to watch these? Absolutely not. Go for the tv-anime, original ones. Despite lacking character-arc narrative explanation (which I think it's a general issue with the Fate Series), at least storyline is a lot better put together and there aren't as many holes. They also don't jump into stupid free fan service.