Glad I got to see one of these in the cinema and obviously it's still funny to see the crew doing stupid shit. But it's essentially just a short epilogue to Forever mixed with a best of clip show. Extremely underwhelming, but does the job in a cinema setting.
Viewed in the Amsterdam Film Museum. It was a cool little short film which has great editing and works as an amusing & interesting time capsule. The decision to shoot the humans through the bars and the animals normally was inspired. I'm glad the standards in zoos are at least a little bit better than shown here nowadays.
"What the heck is happening?" asks protagonist Shinji Ikari late into this movie's runtime. Good fucking question. This third entry in the proposed "rebuild" of Neon Genesis Evangelion boldly diverges from the original plotline pretty much entirely, but brings in heaps of frustrating elements along with it.
I wrote out a review for this film yesterday afternoon, but decided to sit on it for a little while. Perhaps for better or worse I came to the realisation this morning that…
I do like this film's ambitions to be a smart blockbuster, but it ends up feeling like a watered down version of a greater ideal (in this case: the graphic novel it is based on).
I don't have too much good to specifically say about this film, but overall it does function as a decent blockbuster. It has its exciting moments and the core plot is mostly engaging. There's a few well directed action scenes as well. Hugo Weaving delivers…
