Audience reviews
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GhostStreamer
I think the idea this movie puts forward—crossing geographical and political borders and exporting the Sybil System to other countries—is pretty interesting, especially with all the guerrilla warfare, dictatorships, and everything else.
However, it feels empty, bland, and soulless. Maybe that’s because the villains/antagonists aren’t developed as much as they should be. Kougami’s first reappearance after the events of the first season felt pretty “meh,” even considering how important this character is to both the series and its main protagonist.
It feels like one long episode of Psycho-Pass, just like all the movies that came after the first two seasons.
I will now elaborate on all of this in detail:
The political premise could have made this one of the most compelling entries in the f…
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After the bad taste Psycho Pass Season 2 left, I wasn’t sure what to expect of this theatrical release. While I don’t think this movie was great or anything, it was still a step up over season 2.
Let’s start with the story, this mainly revolves around the Sybil System wanting to and starting to expand their technology across their borders. However, as this is going on, a terrorist organization is creating havoc for the Sybil System, even more surprising, Kogami, the rogue enforcer from season one seems to be coercing with them. Akane and a team is not sent to investigate this matter.
One of the things I liked most about the movie was the fact that it increased the scope of this series. To venture off to a new place felt great and the world building in general was pretty solid in this mov…
Read at the sourceTyrannicCubone
One major problem for non Japanese speakers is that the English subtitles are assigned to specific characters instead of specific languages. So when Akane or Shinya speak "Engrish" you get English subtitles, but when one of the non Japanese characters like Nicholas or Desmond speak Japanese you don't get any subtitles. Because of this I never really understood the motivation of these characters or the lengthy exposition that they gave in Japanese, Desmond was also difficult to understand when he was speaking "Engrish". In the end I didn't feel that I had missed to much that was very important but I would have much preferred full English subtitles. I've never watched an anime before this that completely lacked subtitles at seemingly important exposition moments.
Besides that major issue t…
Read at the sourceGsarthotegga
This is a generic American-styled action movie of the Michael Bay type, but with Urobuchi returning as the writer, so we get a few quotes from a book or two, and MAYBE a little bit of political subtext. Thanks for the enlightenment, man. The choice bits this time include name dropping a Proust book that a terrorist is reading—because there's no better encouragement to bust your gut with a bomb than to read turgid old French lit about irrelevancies—of which this entire film consists of; the other stuff Urobuchi was reading at the time was post-colonial literature—definitely not my thing, but it's pretty apt for a movie that is about colonialism, and not in the usual way of militancy or the slightly subtler debt-trap diplomacy—Sibyl is exporting its wonderful tech, starting with Southeast As…
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The final chapter in Gen Urobuchi's Psycho-Pass. That said, the franchise hasn't completely strayed from his original vision, just that he stepped away from his creation after Ubukata royallly goofed up on Season 2.
It's in a weird area of the franchise. Close to Season 1 and 3, much better than 2, but not as good as the following Sinners of the System movies or First Inspector.
Sibyl's presence outside Japan is almost completely forgotten in following seasons, so the movie can be interpreted as canon or non-canon as you prefer.
In that sense, it's more like a love letter to the fans.
Given that the movie takes place outside of Sybil's Japan, it doesn't have the philosophy that season 1 was so well known for, instead, the movie sets itself up more as a political action thriller.
But…
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In one word: meh. If I said that season 2 was disappointing because it was just like watching a rerun, this one is disappointing because it's nothing like the original Psycho-Pass. It's more like your standard American action movie, they just need to add Bruce Willis to the voice cast for perfection.
The movie explains that Japan is the only functioning country in the world, due to the Sybil system, and the rest of the world is just one big warzone with no functioning governments. Japan is leading an effort to stabilize the region by having Sybil remotely manage foreign countries as well, starting with the South East Asian Union, which was in the middle of a bloody civil war. After a terrorist attack in Japan, which appears to have originated in the SEAU, and with a possible sighting of t…
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This review DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS
This is how a film should be made and especially that of a anime series
Don't just skip this review just because i gave it a 10/10
Because it rightfully deserves that rating
We can relate this story to our current society very much like you would not believe ...And it also teaches us that what would happen if there are no human emotions at work and also if there is no law
Humanity and justice should be based on righteous human emotions and rightful law.
We can't just leave our law and system of our society to artificial intelligence
But this also teaches that we cannot fully trust human controlling the society also
Anyways kougami is still HOT AF and akane definitely got some major character development as well..
Don't let hate reviews prevent you…
Read at the sourceBriareoss
Before anything: No, you don't have to watch Season 2 in order to watch this movie.
And this is actually the greatest part about this movie. The story takes place right after Season 1, so you can avoid S2 altogether. Only the new female officer gets 5 seconds of screen time, but this scene is totally insignificant. Any other officer could have taken that 5 seconds. She's an officer with duties like anybody else. Thats all there is to it!
The main plot is actually pretty well written (as expected from Gen Urubuchi) and focuses on the main characters from S1 and their deeper bonding with each other in times of crisis.
Theres a lot of well directed action going on and the CGI effects are pretty neat too.
Given the way shorter runtime, it doesn't come as a surprise that you can't have 10 min…
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The story was not ground breaking or a fresh take, the premise was actually used many times. To put it in a funny way it is an ISEKAI but you just cross the ocean to rEACH a different bEACH. Sorry for the poor comparision. But the story was not focused on any particular theme or group keeping the flow of story easy and giving a broad perspective. This was definitely made for fans continuing the series but anyone can enjoy it nevertheless if you just watch for the story.
There was no real character development as it was not the point of this movie but to broaden the story premise and give fans a story of their favorite character kougami shinya.
The movie did not specify the actual goals and ideology of the antagonists, importantly the mercs. Seems like they could have done it if not for t…
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It’s been over a year since I first watched Psycho-Pass, and in the time since then, I’ve only become further convinced of how damn good it is. It’s a searing political commentary on the nature of free will and sociological predestination, exploring countless fascinating (and severely fucked) dystopian concepts while backed by a fantastic, character-driven narrative and one of anime’s most iconic bad guys. It’s possibly Gen Urobuchi’s best work, with stronger characters than Madoka Magica and far less, well, Fate-ness than Fate/Zero, though they’re all of such similar caliber in my mind that I wouldn’t feel comfortable ranking them against each other. But the failure of Psycho-Pass 2 to re-capture its brilliance couldn’t help but raise the question of how much of a franchise there really w…
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Very good movie!
Personally I really like psycho-pass and this movie was interesting continue of the main anime. The main characters are my favorite ones and luckily they are in the movie again. On the other side, there is not second movie, which can present personality of Kougami, Shinya in detail.
The art, sound and story line in this project really made me good attention. The level of them hasn't change from the anime until the movie.
Personally, I think, that this film can be watched without watching the anime, because it is not too close to the story.
I recommend this movie to everyone who is searching for something different than other animes.
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Nice eye candy, but NOT as good as the original series! Not even close.
I know that movies can never be quite as deep as shows due to the time constraints, but the Psycho-Pass movie was a big step down from the original series and I'm still trying to determine whether it damaged the series as a whole in my eyes.
**spoiler zone**
Let's start with the most important aspect -- story. There were two things that I really enjoyed here. One was the initial few minutes of the story, with foreign terrorists attacking Sybil-controlled Japan which I thought was just really cool. The second main thing was the idea of Sybil attempting to expand outside of Japan, and the setting of the movie outside of Japan. I thought it added a new angle to the whole Sybil thing that wasn't explored in the original…
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The Psycho-Pass movie was quite enjoyable to watch, for me. It reunites characters we know and love, it showcases an amazing art style, and it remains captivating the whole time.
One of the things I should mention right away about this movie is that it feels different than the Psycho-Pass series itself. Perhaps it's because it's a movie and not an entire season, but the tone of the movie feels slightly rushed and overly urgent.
That isn't a bad thing, mind you. It just feels different than the Psycho-Pass you know from the anime. As far as characters and character development goes, this movie took wonderful strides into discovering who these people are. Without giving anything away, the conversations between the characters in this movie progress relationships that hadn't had much develo…
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Terrible.
Not that terrible but still terrible. This is why I hate anime films especially already having a backstory behind it. They don't know whether they should develop their existing characters further or shoehorn new ones. Case in point, the black guy antagonist is basically discount Shogo Makishima except he preaches a different line of shit, I am not sure why they have to reference western literature so many times.
Nothing happens here, basically, Sibyl has been introduced into another country, literally ask the same exact question as the first season.
You thought they were going to explore how a dictatorship can take advantage of Sibyl System? No. Nothing, basically, same conclusion as last time. "IF IT WORKS DON'T FIX IT", I am not sure what to say here, the concept is to kee…
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The gruesome world of Psycho-pass is back at it again with the white vans, I'm sorry, but I just had to say it, enough cringe-worthy talk, let's get down to business, shall we? I'm sure we all know what a complex show Psycho-pass can get, from the emotion to the hype it all ties up very nicely, It's so perfect in fact that some of us might think a sequel would most definitely nor deliver the promise of the original season, most of the people are turned down very disappointed after seeing the second season, while this movie is a sequel to itself, it would be worth mentioning that you can still get away watching it without having to see the second season, literally.
But the question, remains, does it deliver? let's find that out...
- Story (8/10):
The story takes place 3 years after the eve…
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The Psycho-Pass movie is extremely similar in quality to season 2, but for completely different reasons. In case you didn't read my season 2 review, I basically said it was a good effort on a misguided idea. This is a bad effort on a lazy idea. It's got a ridiculous budget so it gets higher scores on everything, but overall it's basically the same. It drops all the Psycho-Pass values of analyzing complex philosophical ideas and goes for a pure Die Hard and Rambo style action vibe. It's a pretty action movie. I don't have a whole lot more to say about it. This movie was not for me.
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Psycho-Pass the Movie will definitely be viewed differently among fans. Some may enjoy it more than others and the other side would think it was a waste and just another money grabber by the studio.
The story and pacing of the movie was definitely not up to standards, much of the plot can already be expected if you watched the first two series of the anime. It all comes down to one bad guy and Tsunemori will come through in the end.
As with the other installments of this series the art took me back to when I first watched the first season. It took my breath away. I really love how they play with colours to set the mood and atmosphere for what is about to come. The OST accompaning the art is nothing to be marveled at but I feel fits the theme of the movie.
Overall, I enjoyed not as much…
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The Psycho Pass series can be best summed up as:
Season 1: Criminality, Season 2: Terrorism, The Move: War
I have to say that I genuinely enjoyed the movie and had a grin on my face the entire time Kougami was on screen. But that's just my inner fanboy talking.
Anyways, about this movie. It seems too short. I enjoyed it for what it is and is a much more welcoming return than Season 2. However, they should've made this movie into an actual season instead because it winds up wrapping everything up by the end that it wastes potentially great characters and story arcs.
It is almost difficult to say anything without spoilers, but the show has taken a more action path in contrast to its detective mystery that it held in the first season. In fact, one could say that this is Psycho Pass on ste…
Read at the sourceTyrannicswine117
Warning possible Spoilers
Considering Kougami wasn't in the second season it seemed fair to make a movie that helps build the relationship between Akane and Kougami a bit more.
The story continues with Akane leading Unit 1 on dangerous missions, but Kougami has been sited in another country and Akane has been ordered to investigate the reasons for his disappearance.
Now the movie was ok as the only characters in this that had concentration were Akane and Kougami and it made me feel like this movie was just for them, but it also showed how other countries would react to the Sibyl system and how it works because not everyone is going to accept it hence the civil war that is happening in South East Asia.
The movie had decent pacing and the way it ended made it seem like a season 3 could be…
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Sequels are a very efficient way to promote a series that the audience seems to have in a special part of their hearts. However, when one must undertake the role of creating a sequel, he has to reconsider what made the series popular, capitalize on that and try to bring more depth into the universe. Unfortunately, the vast majority seem to fall into the trap of Michaelbayanism. That is to take your first movie and create a sequel that lacks the shine of the original or is thematically weak and terrible in almost all categories except production most of the times. Nonetheless, there are some cases where the sequels are better than the originals ever wish to be. Such a case is Captain America: Winter Soldier which was superior to its typical, generic prequel. Another case is Terminator 2 whi…
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