Audience reviews
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BakaRyuji
This review contains a SPOILER.
This is just Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Work (both seasons) made into a movie with the older art style.
I'm telling you, it's literally the same story but just made into a movie. I don't know why this exists, but it's useless.
If there's already a movie or TV series about the same story, why make a copy of it in a different type? So that people could watch this movie instead of the TV series because it's shorter?
I didn't know it was going to be the same, so I completely wasted my time watching it. Plus they killed Illya in this one too.
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i merely write reviews some time. as a result my reviews are short and express everything in one time. But ill try my best fill you everything i can.
Start with story, many of seen it and very difficult to understand that changing of story and make it so heartless story line and Shirou couldn't save every as he did in Fate/stay night. I think maybe cause of Archer decided to kill Shirou. We already heard Archer is Shirou Emiya Future self that will became hero some day. Archer objective here to kill Shirou Emiya order to change the fate of his own. that means it not the recap of Fate/stay night. it is just another story about the same character. So archer back story is Fate/stay night and fate/stay night movie about another route where Shirou future self means Archer tr…
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UBW movie is a wreck, and if you're one of the few people that didn't know that, now you do.
What makes it a wreck?
- It's an adaptation of about 15-20 hours long route in a VN. You probably already understand what that implies. Cuts are out of control, to the point where by the end of the movie I couldn't understand what the hell happened despite knowing story of UBW quite well. That's because movie chaotically jumps from fight to fight to get in all the action bits, throwing out a lot of the exposition.
Spoiler ahead: my personal favorite is when after first encounter with Shinji and Rider they run away from school while Shirou and Rin go back to their classroom and discover Shinji scared shitless, with Rider lying dead on the floor. Good job DEEN.
- Bad animation and art. It look…
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Some guy: Hey Billy, Our cash cows are getting hungry and most of them are dying. Hurry up and finish that TV series already
Billy: We're not done yet. We're still animating the show and the voice actors are not done yet.
Some guy: Goddammit, we need more cash for the cash cows NOW!
Billy: How about making a movie based on "Unlimited Blade Works"?
Some guy: Huh?
Billy: We'll just cut some scenes and cram it all in a 90 min. movie. This should give us more cash.
Some guy: Great idea! Billy, I'm promoting you to "Money Whore Executive". Story: (3/10)
The movie is set in Fyuuki City where the 5th Holy Grail War is taking place. 7 masters are randomly picked and they summon a being called a "Servant". Servants are real life heroes from the past turned into a heroic spirit. They are summoned t…
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Who is this for? Why was this even attempted?! Who the hell thought cramming 30 hours of story into a 90 minute movie was a great idea?! This "movie" is a disaster! If you have never heard of fate, you will be lost in this incomprehensible mess. If you have seen fate stay night by DEEN, the first third of the movie is a boring recap, the twists in the second act will be rubbish to you and in the third act... you will have an embarrassingly hilarious final fight and instead of a CG dragon you will get a CG dolphin. If you have read the visual novel, you will probably hate it the most, especially when there is a superior adaptation by ufotable you should watch instead.
To sum this up (in case you don't want to read about me tearing this to shreds): this is a shiny pointless piece of crap t…
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I am a fan of Fate/Stay Night and the Fate series in general, but in my opinion, this movie is quite bad. Let's start with the good points though.
Art: The artwork in this movie is quite nice. It's more or less what I expect out of Studio DEEN and all of the fight scenes are animated quite spectacularly. Each fight is full of light and particle effects, and it really is one of the few enjoyable parts of this movie.
Sound: The soundtrack of this movie is pretty standard. The music was there, and I noticed it was there. It didn't make me cringe, but at the same time, it didn't particularly stand out. The only reason I rate it higher than 5, is because I sort of liked the voice acting.
Story & Character: This is where the entire trainwreck is. The plot makes absolutely no sense. At all. No…
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So, as everyone should know, Type-Moon is infamous for having poor adaptions of anything not named 'Kara no Kyoukai'. Tsukihime's was so bad its worth thinking of it as an entirely different franchise because the characters are nothing alike, and Fate/Stay Night decided 'hey, we can't decide what route we want, so let's remove defining plot points and replace them with akshun.' I decided to ignore this and went into Unlimited Blade Works hoping it'd be okay. After all, its just one route, right? They can get the important stuff in, right?
If the important stuff is action, then they did pretty good. All the good fights from the route are in, and done pretty well. One of my favourites from the visual novel remains one of my favourites in this movie, and it certainly is easier to convey a go…
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There are many times in anime where I've been left dry simply because I was out of the target audience. However, there is a time, rare that it may be, that an anime is created with absolutely no target audience in question. Unlimited Blade Works is lucky that I don't consider it a movie because it would be one of the worst, if not the worst anime movie I have ever seen. Unfortunately compiling a slide show of random fights without any well established context, background information, plot, scene transitioning, and character development does not qualify as an actual movie.
First thing's first though and for an animated film, Unlimited Blade Works has pretty poor production values. This should not come as a shock, seeing as this is studio DEEN who are notorious for budget cutting anime, but…
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If you haven't watched the tv show or at least completed the "Unlimited Blade Works" arc of the visual novel. You won't enjoy this movie very much, since the characters have little to no introduction and the story moves really fast. It's very clear from the beggining that the plot development assumes the viewer already knows a bunch of things.
Story: 8
As i said before, the story develops at the speed of light. It's heavy on fights and light on background information. During the first 15 minutes, shit happens so fast that you will get motion sickness.
The plot follows the exact events of the visual novel arc by the same name, with the exception of the hentai scenes (which have been removed) and some minor details.
It's refreshing to see that an adaptation, actually adapts the original thi…
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I'm not going to write a really long review. So getting to the point.
Story-4- If you have not read the visual novel, then you might of enjoyed this better than I did. The story wasn't to bad, only thing that really got on my nerves was that they really didn't seem to give a time frame. Most of the scenes were messed together and you could easily think that it was all done in 2 or 3 days. In reality it happens in 10 days.
Art-9- I would have to say my two favorite parts of the movie was the art and the music which I will get to. They did a really good job with the art keeping it flowing well.
Sound/Music-7- I'm very surprised that they didn't use most of the music from the game (they did use one track called emiya), but some of the music they did use was nice.
Character-5- There wasn't…
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for fans who have read the fate/stay night visual novel, this movie would be very disappointing (except for one part)
basically the story is rushed through, no surprises there as it is a movie, and the visual novel has too much to cover, but to name the movie "unlimited blades work" would be to put into focus the main point of it from the visual novel, which is, emiya shirou's convictions and archer's convictions.
as someone who has read the novel, i can say that nothing is very well explained, even the things that MAKES the movie.they should have shown more "dreams" of archer on top of the hill of dead bodies, and have emiya shirou monologuing what he sees, describing the true nature of that scene.
i found the revealing part, where archer revealed he is emiya shirou to be underwhelming…
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Ah the movie every Fate Stay Night fan has been waiting for and for good reasons too. This movie is not a continuation of the anime series. To make it very clear it’s like coming to a fork in the road, picking route A) takes you to the anime series which you seen or heard of, or if you pick Route B) it take you to the movie and the events in Route A) never happened at all.
Now here's some advice, to those who are new to the Fate/Stay Night Series. I highly recommend watching the anime before committing to this movie. The reason I suggest this is simple. Try to compact a game which requires over 15 hours of play time into an hour and 45 minute movie. What are the flaws of doing that? It’s simplification. That means the supporting characters are like cardboard cutouts as you don’t get to s…
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I must say that I had mixed emotions about this movie. I didn't like original anime much and I never played the game. What I didn't like in season one was mostly Shirou who pissed the hell out of me with his stupidity and the whole Saber/Shirou romance. Not that it was bad but I think that there was too much attention on it.
And yeh, Saber obessed Gilgamesh also was not my thing. Iactually dislike stories where everyone are after one person and where main character is basicly unbittable.
But here comes the movie with alternative story and I have several things to say about it.
Despite not liking anime much, this movie would look bad without watching anime first... or playing the game.
Major minus of the movie is that it had rushed a lot of things especially at the begining. One moment…
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*SPOILERS*
As the other reviews suggest, there might be many types of people watching this show, but I believe the outcome can only be the same. Let's take that you have neither watched the TV series nor played the game, because there are still too many loopholes in the context of this standalone movie to enjoy, regardless of any rules set up in the TV series or game.
As for the plot, you will not understand who is who doing what with whom unless you look it up on Wikipedia. Here I'm just going to make a list of unacceptable loopholes (which doesn't require knowledge from the TV series or game to acknowledge) that make me so sick:
- In the first fight of Berserker - the giant Servant, he proved invulnerable to both physical and energy attacks (Archer's first and second attacks) - in oth…
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It was really good honestly, some parts were changed from the visual novel, even Emiya Shirou's incantation and Rin's, the epilogue was rushed like some parts too.
The only reason why I would tell you not to watch it would be if you didn't watch the Anime or play the game because they skipped the obvious parts that happened "in between" so you would be confused by the sudden time jump in some situations. But if you are curious about then just forgive those parts because they were meant for viewers who already watched the Anime and/or played the game.
Story:
The story was a very good translation from the Visual Novel given the time they had, even tho there is time skip you can really get into some parts of it. But since they had such a short time they couldn't naturally represent it at i…
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Alright Time For A Short Review !
(I don't know but i always sad when i watch anime's ending)
This is just a short review and please forgive me if my english went bad!
Story : As it drive you to the epicness , it shows and answered some of the questions
that was left behind on FSN series. Well, they use some of same scene a little from the series
but still EPIC. The story is all about ARCHER with his related ideals so named Shirou.What i'm trying
to say , the storyline is not same as the series.One more , sorry but i found out that was no hilarious
in this movie ^^".
~I give 9/10.
Sound/Music : The sound effect for each scene is perfect ! This will help you fully
froze in front of the screen in watching it ! Although it seems there s only 1 OST
for this movie but It was all help ente…
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How deep can an adaption go? How much source material must be understood and internalized before setting foot in an unfamiliar universe? How true can a work be to it's source material before becoming trite? All these questions, and countless others besides, resound from the lips of the wary furiously as they vacillate with abject trepidation. The answers:
1) Should I watch the Anime beforehand?
Yes (unless you have played the visual novel, then the necessity is subjective)
2) Should I play the Visual Novel beforehand?
Yes. Actually, just play the VN regardless. Really. Stop what you are doing, and get it now.
Those are the clear-cut answers to the most important issues. There are more dubious questions abounding however...
3) Why is this a movie instead of a series?
Because they damn w…
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Oh, UBW, where should I start?
UBW was probably one of the most anticipated movies, and I can't blame people for that - the original route in the Visual Novel was outstanding, touching, at one time keeping you at the edge of your seat, at another causing you to cry about the pain of the characters, the results of their unfortunate choices, their small mistakes or simply outstanding sacrifices. The movie made me remember that story, made me want to live through it again.
Too bad it doesn't MAKE me live through it again.
IMO the obvious mistake the creators did, was forcing 20 hours of game-play into 1,5 hour movie - at the same time being forced to cut some portions of the story in order to squeeze it into the time frame. A 3 part OVA would've been much better, but they decided to make a…
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Fate/Stay Night is one of those franchises that needs very little introduction. TYPE-MOON's hit visual novel from 2004 was adapted for anime in 2006, and while the original series was good for the most part, the show suffered due to an inherent problem with any visual novel adaptation.
Visual novels are a strange blending of anime, manga and games that, in a number of cases, allow the player a degree of choice over the events in the story (although there are some purely linear ones out there). The issue though, is that the same event may have several different outcomes that are dependent on the choices made within the game, and it's this aspect of many visual novels that causes the most problems when it comes to making an adaptation as the storyline for these types of games are generally…
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Undoubtedly today is the day I will be burned alive by the internet as some kind of heretic... You are about to find out why.
I watched the bluray of F/SN UBW because I wanted to know why everyone was like "OMG UBW COMES OUT TODAY!" and, well... Watching it did NOT answer that question.
I have very little good to say about the movie. In fact, "The sound and visuals didn't suck." is about the extent of my praise. So I won't bother trying to divide this into pros/cons.
First of all, the narrative is almost non-existent. The movie is 105 minutes long, and at least 90 of that is action scenes.
No real character development. It's obvious that the characters progress to some degree, but it all feels random and very little is offered by way of explanation.
I was going to bump it up to 6/10 o…
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