Forum - View topicREVIEW: Bloody Escape -Jigoku no Tōsōgeki- Anime Film Review
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jroa
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Frankly, I didn't realize that taking inspiration from the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road was supposed to be treated as an absolute negative trait by now. Is that so? Maybe I just didn't get the memo. Based on the gist of this review and the comments I've read from Japanese viewers who already saw the movie, this is definitely meant to be primarily approached as an action film. Or perhaps as a bit of a throwback to the many action-centric OVAs that were produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In other words, it appears the staff intentionally devoted their main efforts to depicting some pretty good action sequences. Which was a rather common priority, way back in the OVA heyday. In that sense...I suppose the single biggest problem with Bloody Escape is it was made in the wrong era. These days, only anime projects with connections to an already popular franchise or mass market talent tend to benefit from nostalgia throwbacks, which overcomes many a skeptic's indifference or intolerance for unoriginality (*cough* Gundam SEED Freedom *cough*). Despite the ANN reviewer's personal misgivings, it sounds like the end result absolutely achieves the film's inherent objective (despite its inevitable box office failure). In short: "Entertaining action, but not very original" might read like a devastating criticism for some, but for me it can be understood as a relatively conditional endorsement. That is, you'll have fun if you're watching the movie with the right mindset. For that matter, reading that at least two characters (Lunalu, Kisaragi) have decent arcs seems fair enough to me:
You know, I can work with that. It's reasonable to like, say, one or two characters and find the rest to be one-note. After all, this is still a movie with a limited runtime. Finally, I tend to feel disappointed upon reading that the reviewer did not care for the soundtrack. Then again, I'm also speaking as someone who has usually preferred the work of the often underrated Kotaro Nakagawa to, say, the overrated Hiroyuki Sawano. |
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JRPictures
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Surprised there wasn't any acknowledgement to this being a sorta-sequel to the Estab-Life anime. I'm guessing whatever capacity the main cast of that show appear in this movie for isn't particularly huge.
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Richard Eisenbeis
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The mentioned "mercenaries" are the characters from Estab-Life. To be completely transparent, I have only seen one episode of Estab-Life (back for the preview guide when it aired) so I can't really comment too much on the connection. But they basically have two scenes in the film: one where they watch from on high as the main character fights and one where they help the main characters start their big escape. There is nothing in the way of a character arc for any of them. |
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AQuin1904
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Their arc is that somehow the wolfman can talk now instead of just making dog noises. I don't think anything explains this, and I hope nothing ever does. The cast of Great Escape is definitely more of a cameo than anything else. Apart from some nods to how things shook out after that series's ending, it's kind of interesting to see them come off as colder and more mercenary here than they did in their own series. |
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