VividSimon Simply Perfect

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

ChuckJorris Watching this movie was a pretty surreal and irritating experience. After watching the first 15 to 20 min of this highly expected movie I thought for some time that maybe I was watching the wrong movie or that I accidentally missed Evangelion 2.5. Sadly I found out, that there was no Evangelion 2.5 and this was actually the sequel to the amazing movies Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0, the movie i was anticipating with great expectations for years. I have watched the original series and loved it as much as the first two Rebuild-movies, though at the end I was a little bit disappointed, because the last episodes of the original series created a lot of new questions and didn´t provide much answers to bring the plot to a satisfying ending. Unfortunately Evangelion 3.0 and the last movie may have the same issues.After I had mentally coped with Evangelion 3.0 the experience reminded me of my disbelief, anger and disappointment after I had watched Matrix Revolutions or the last season of Lost. The experience of watching those examples can be compared to a punch in the face: Your eyes tear, you are disoriented for some time and after the punch you either get very angry or start to cry.This movie intentionally destroys all expectations you might have after the first two Rebuild-movies. Neo Tokyo 3 is destroyed, the world is destroyed, everybody hates Shinji, who accidentally caused the 3rd Impact. Shinji continues to work with his father and a braindead Rei-Clone against Misato and the others, though Commander Ikari seems to be the real villain, who for some reason planned the destruction of the world with the 3rd Impact to fulfill some sort of prophecy. Shinji plays a lot of piano with the new character Kaworu, who seems to be a clone of Shinji or Ikari just like Rei is a clone of Shinjis mother. The incoherent plot and the imagery are absolutely surreal and like Shinji you are constantly confused and have no clue, what is happening in this movie.I cannot rate this movie 1/10 because the artwork and the battle at the end are great and simply because I love NGE and the first movies too much.BUT PLEASE, HIDEAKI ANNO, DON'T PUNCH US FANS IN THE FACE AGAIN WITH THE NEXT MOVIE

Freak Idiot With a plot full of holes like Swiss cheese, setting and setup that will confuse even the staunchest long-time fans, script on the level of a bad fan fiction, countless disrepancies and abandoned plot lines from the first two movies and characterization taking 180-degree turns every two seconds, Evangelion 3.0 is an utter mess at best, and an open insult to movie watchers at worst. It's a colossal failure as its own story, as a follow-up, as a remake and a movie in general that renders the previous two movies and all their accomplishments completely pointless. Almost nothing from the previous films is resolved in any meaningful way: Shinji's relationships with his friends and slowly growing confidence, Kaji's shady dealings with NERV, the Key of Nebuchadnezzar, Rei coming out of her shell, Asuka warming up to people, the growing threat of Angel attacks and much more are completely abandoned and forgotten about. In their place we get an endless barrage of new terms and plot elements which the characters talk about, but none of which are ever adequately explained or established. The first 30 minutes consist of nothing but action scenes with only the tiniest amount of context or setup, just a bunch of flashy stuff for the viewer to look at.The characters have taken a total nosedive. Mari, who had a strange foreboding about her in 2.0 is reduced to a mere sidekick with no meaning. Despite the 14-year gap, Asuka is still her old bratty self despite now being 28 years old. The justification for her and Mari not having aged is so ridiculous you have to wonder if the writers are actually pulling a prank. Misato is so far removed from her previous persona she might as well be an entirely new character. Rei's character actually regresses, as all her development from the previous movies is rendered nonexistent, and is never properly explained how. Gendo has become a caricature of himself. In the original series he had an enigmatic presence and there were hints of his deeper motives, but here there's nothing under the surface: he's just a cartoon villain, practically twirling his moustache and cackling "JUST AS PLANNED".But the change of setting is undoubtedly the thing that shoots this film in the leg and then some. So many questions rise and are never answered that the viewer is completely lost. The last 20 minutes will be spent in utter confusion as the viewer tries to grasp even the flimsiest straw of what is supposed to be going on, and why it should mean anything. Bombastic music playing over certain scenes is the only signal of something meaningful happening, but since the setting is so unestablished the viewer is just left thinking "I guess that's important because the characters act like it is, but why should I care?"Perhaps the only saving qualities of this film are the music and the animation, both of which are great and work to put together some rather impressive action scenes. But that makes it only so much worse when you think what other projects this clearly great amount of talent could have been used for, rather than this 90-minute fart in the audience's face. At one point Fuyutsuki, the one character who gives the only direct exposition in the film, says "'Tis a wretched role I'm playing" to himself. It's almost if he's meta talking about his character having been reduced to a useless exposition device.Add to all this meaningless shoutouts to the original like recycled shots from the series and Gendo's new choice of eyewear, occasional pseudo-philosophical lines which don't mean anything and some completely out of place piano playing scenes that add nothing to the story and you have an indulgent, incomprehensible, poorly told, plot less, pretentious, forced mess that doesn't even have a proper ending. Stuff explodes, characters talk about things you don't understand, Shinji sulks, some piano playing, stuff explodes again and then the movie just stops. Nothing has been achieved, learned or accomplished and you just don't care.

Michael Shi Evangelion: Q, unequivocally completes everything that was missing in the Evangelion franchise.First however, I noticed many reviewers of this film state in their review explicitly that they were confused by the story, and gave the film a low score. I will try to elucidate the plot in the end, and recommend people who don't understand the film refrain from rating the film. 1.0 and 2.0 with its dazzling visuals drew a lot of newcomers who aren't acquainted with the history of the Eva universe, those people of course will feel like nothing has happened in 3.0, when on the contrary, so much that has happened can be inferred.The visuals, editing, music... everything except the plot is what we'd expect from Evagelion. If anything should be said about them it is that somehow, music still overshot my expectation. So without further ado let's continue to the story. First, a review without spoilers:Unlike previous Eva plots, there is no plot device this time (DSS Choker does not count and I'll explain why below), in other words no elements introduced to impel the story forward to an intended outcome. Now that is a hefty achievements. Everything that happens feel authentic, real, which makes it seem like Q is not trying to make a point. The emotions between characters are genuine, and all the characters are fleshed out without having to show their background. In real life people do not reveal their past, yet often we feel we know them. That is the effect of characters in Eva Q.-Spoilers Begin here- - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - - Warning -The Evangelion series has finally lived up to its religiously connotative namesake with Q. The association of the DSS Choker with the Albatross that once hung on the neck of a certain mariner in Rime of the Ancient Marinare by Coleridge is obvious to littérateurs (in that story, the mariner shot the albatross and brought bad luck to his crew, he was then forced to wear the dead albatross on his neck until all his crew members died). Later, Shinji's sins, or DSS Choker, are quite literally removed by Kowaro, and placed upon his own neck, whereupon he ultimately died for Shinji's sins. Sounds familiar? In one simple story Anno managed to allude to not one, but two great works of literature, one of which finally substantially links Evangelion to Christianity, as it had initially done through visual only.Nothing substantial happens to the development of the characters... on screen. That is to say, they are fully fleshed out, grown up adults with personality and history before the film begins. Asuka is my favorite, she is practically a mother to Shinji during the final scene. Her thorough disgust with Shinji's childish, out-of-place behavior in the grown up world is actually an indication of her own disgust at her own past. She shows vicariously through Shinji that she terribly regrets ever being so crazy. (You may feel free to draw parallels between old Asuka and Hideaki Anno, who once suffered from depression.) Then Misato, after 14 years is clearly not infatuated with Shinji anymore, still can't let go. Her maturity is striking, it makes me wonder about her past, the hallmark of a good character. What happened to the Rei that Shinji saved(?) is still a mystery, we'll have to wait for 4.0... and finally, Kowaro, the savior that makes this film.Kowaro is the only source of light in Shinji's life throughout the entire series, as he should be, because he's Jesus. (In case you're wondering, I don't believe in God) He completely understands Shinji even though Shinji can't express himself. Kowaro is the love people so desperately search for their whole life. Seeing those two work so marvelously together is the highlight of this film, even if you say nothing happened in 3.0... well, this happened - their semi-erotic love affair - and that is enough.end of spoilers -Evangelion: Q is an Evangelion that matured even further than that of the original TV series. It felt like a true sequel. Though it may sit uneasily with 1.0 and 2.0, it is because those films failed to capture the spirit of the original. To me, the true sequence of the series, one that puts it in the best light, is: the TV series, the ending of 2.0, Q, and End of Evangelion or hopefully 4.0. The rest is good in its own way, and certainly watchable for their visual banquet alone.

Kjetil Larsen "Rebuild of Evangelion: You can (not) Redo" is the third movie in the reboot Evangelion franchise, which premiered over a month ago in Japanese cinemas. It's a movie which had been in the works for over three years, steadily increasing interest and expectations from both a new audience and fans of the old TV-drama which first premiered on television in 1995.It begins as one would expect from seeing the previous movie, radio chatter with an action- filled sequence (now taking place in space), where the returning characters Mari and Asuka participate and retrieve an item of some importance - the sleeping protagonist, as well as his giant robot Evangelion Unit 01.A rather dull and technical awakening of the recovered Shinji Ikari complete with cognitive and medical checkup does not hide that something seems slightly off. There's new faces, more advanced technology and how Shinji is being held at gunpoint for the entire duration - if not obvious already, one might think that one had been transported into the future where everybody holds a grudge against Shinji. That notion soon turns out be true as we discover that Misato Katsuragi is now the Captain of a flying battleship accompanied by a fleet of sea-vessels with the charge to fight and defeat their previous employers, NERV. A irremovable collar has been fit to the fourteen year old Shinji's neck, which is set by Misato to explode should Shinji become able to Awaken an Evangelion. When the now 28 year old Asuka and Mari haven't aged day, maintaining suspense of disbelief becomes a challenge.A point where one might easily sympathize with the protagonist is here, as all of this sounds quite ridiculous and unbelievable, which makes the decision to run away once the voice of Rei Ayanami is calling him all the more understandable. But once we have left this bizarre place, we also leave behind any sense of realism or what little was left of it.We enter a place where little or nothing seems coherent or plausible, with static backgrounds and spotlight lighting the stage, as if it were a play. The latter would make sense as the only characters operating this massive facility which required thousands to operate can be counted on one hand alone. The next part of the movie breaks down Shinji's mind by revealing that Rei was but a lookalike that is nothing like the Rei from the previous movie, making Rei a non-returning character after all. More revelations also come, revealing that 14 years have passed since the last movie, and the aborted Third Impact explosion Shinji was at the center of had far greater consequences than shown in the previous movie.The enigmatic Kaworu who very briefly appeared the previous installments serves as a temporary relief for the mind of our protagonist, who at this time it has become clear is the only character with more than two dimensions in the movie. When even that very protagonist shows signs of unnecessarily lowering himself to the level of stupidity apparently shared by all in this movie, there just isn't a reason to care any more. Thanks to the plot-moving stupidity now also found in Shinji, another Impact explosion is about to occur nearing the end, and with the frequency of which these impacts occur it might be a good idea to include a spot for them in the weather forecast. All that remains after this is the wait for the inevitable stopping of said impact, following a disappointingly predictable routine now.The previous movies are required watching, but the end result is that this might have been better off as a stand-alone movie, since it does not make very good use of the previous material, nor does it cover any expectations one might have had coming from them. It would not stand on it's own legs either way.Possibly worse is it if one has watched the original TV-drama, as one realizes that nearly none of the crucial elements that held the story together have been transferred to this new rendition. When some of it's principal characters become mere shells of their former selves (quite literally for Rei who by far suffer the most in this category) and don't interact on any meaningful level, disappointment will only set itself in harder.The most enjoyment one could have regarding this movie is undoubtedly spending time making sense of it after having watched it as if to attempt justifying having wasted your time.