Emotionally scarring and very intense. The 2 previous Berserk movies have to be watched before taking this one on.
23 Reviews
Depressing and Gory
KScythe24 June 2018
A good watch
purpleprinc34 July 2013
I loved the original series of Berserk and this movie series has been a great addition. The animation work is superb, crisp, clear and colourful, it's a pleasure to watch. Last review I wasn't too happy but I understand they are fast-forwarding through the story. If you've seen the original series, you'll still enjoy this for it's visual treat, and if you're new you'll like it all the same hopefully. The story of Berserk is great, I hope they stick to it faithfully. Anyhow if you're looking for an entertaining anime series to watch, definitely check this out you won't be disappointed. And now my review has come to 10 lines I can end it respectfully, check this out! :)
How the '97 series should've ended.
josephellis25 August 2021
Gore fest supreme
blackmamba999719 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Like all horror anime's to come out of Japan this one has to be best example of violent gore. Berserk... A tale of companions led by a man named Griffith (AKA Hawk) who leads a band of men of honourable soldiers who ride across many kingdoms proving their worth as fighters for peace. In the middle is Guts. A kind of mercenary wanderer who is then chosen by Hawk after a fierce duel, which no man has ever defeated Griffith in a sword fight only to lose by a near knock out. After which they become close friends who continue to battle endless fights showing their valour to every kingdom they approach only to be betrayed by a ruthless king who promised good fortune and fame.
This has led to this point after Griffith was imprisoned in the dungeons to die until Guts, and his team of merry men rescue their leader only to find out he has been disabled in many ways including not being able to walk or speak again. Casca who had been the band's leader in Griffith's absence successfully finds him with Guts who then escape from the castle's bowels. While on route to their new hideout Griffith's despair reaches new heights, and decides to end his own life only to find an ancient talisman called the Behilmut egg. Needing only a few drops of his blood a portal would soon open sucking all of his men inside including Guts, and Casca.
This was one of the most ultra violent movies to date only to match another series called Blood C+ in similarity of action, and sword play. Yet this film captured my attention even more when the four horsemen of the Apocalypse suddenly appeared giving Griffith a choice to either sacrifice his own friends for his own gain and dreams or... abstain and release his band of warriors in exchange to be imprisoned for all eternity for his great sins of battle, and needless bloodshed across the continent. I enjoyed the twists, and turns to his subconscious allowing his brutal nature to finally awaken, and then speak only two words... "I sacrifice." Which then led to the most bloody gore fest on the silver screen.
The story was fantastic as was the gratuitous violence along with an adult situation between Guts, and Casca. Yet to see Griffith in his newly changed form called Femto (Pestilence, Gravity, Fate) was a treat to behold. A new demon king born out of his own greed, hatred, and malice against the world makes Berserk one of a kind in its own right. This is not for the feint of heart, and no viewer under the age of seventeen should watch this film. Highly recommended to those who love this type of genre. Very graphic, and disturbing.
This has led to this point after Griffith was imprisoned in the dungeons to die until Guts, and his team of merry men rescue their leader only to find out he has been disabled in many ways including not being able to walk or speak again. Casca who had been the band's leader in Griffith's absence successfully finds him with Guts who then escape from the castle's bowels. While on route to their new hideout Griffith's despair reaches new heights, and decides to end his own life only to find an ancient talisman called the Behilmut egg. Needing only a few drops of his blood a portal would soon open sucking all of his men inside including Guts, and Casca.
This was one of the most ultra violent movies to date only to match another series called Blood C+ in similarity of action, and sword play. Yet this film captured my attention even more when the four horsemen of the Apocalypse suddenly appeared giving Griffith a choice to either sacrifice his own friends for his own gain and dreams or... abstain and release his band of warriors in exchange to be imprisoned for all eternity for his great sins of battle, and needless bloodshed across the continent. I enjoyed the twists, and turns to his subconscious allowing his brutal nature to finally awaken, and then speak only two words... "I sacrifice." Which then led to the most bloody gore fest on the silver screen.
The story was fantastic as was the gratuitous violence along with an adult situation between Guts, and Casca. Yet to see Griffith in his newly changed form called Femto (Pestilence, Gravity, Fate) was a treat to behold. A new demon king born out of his own greed, hatred, and malice against the world makes Berserk one of a kind in its own right. This is not for the feint of heart, and no viewer under the age of seventeen should watch this film. Highly recommended to those who love this type of genre. Very graphic, and disturbing.
The golden age arc is incredible
darthsitkur28 August 2015
A year after guts and Griffith part ways, he and the band of the hawk conduct a rescue mission to bail Griffith out of jail. I came across the first movie on Netflix and thought it was great, caught the second one on youtube and thought it was even better than the first, and bought this one off of iTunes and it was so intense and so brutal that it made Dante's inferno: an animated epic look like a walk in the park. The first two were action/adventure/war films, but this one was action, adventure, horror, and dark fantasy all rolled up into one. this is quite honestly the best animated film I've ever seen, and it's even better than the first two if you ask me. I definitely recommend the The berserk trilogy to fellow anime fans, they have great stories, great voice acting, they're filled with brutal action, they're creepy, they're dramatic, they're intense, they're raw, and they have insane amounts of gore. they won't be disappointed
Unleashing the dark world and its power.
Reno-Rangan10 October 2013
The third installment of 'Berserk: The Golden Age Arc' movie series which was based on the manga series. As expected the movie didn't disappoint me but still first two are the epic compared to it. Yes first two were war genre, fully gore, awesome movies and this third one was slightly turned out fantasy-horror. After where it ended in second part I thought the revenge will commence in its follow-up story but it surprised me and took us on the different path.
This story follows after a year since Guts and Griffith parted. Some of the escaped Hawk bands prepare for the rescue mission in the Casca's stand-in command to bring back their leader. Soon, Guts join them, the rescue team becomes much stronger. Not wasting much time the mission commence and what comes next is the unexpected twist and theme transformation. The dark world unleashes, without a mercy it assault the heroes and leaves the unforgettable scars. The best part of all these three movies were the way the movie ended. It leaves something broad open which makes us to guess what will happen next like a mind twister.
Yeah I know most of the people like Guts and it is my favourite character as well. In this part The Griffith character was weakened but we knew it coming. As he was a mysterious character from the very first movie especially with his 'golden egg' I knew there must be some story behind it. This movie did not explain that portions very well, maybe we can expect that in the next part, I hope so. And Casca was as usual supported very well.
The sex scenes were stronger like in 'The Battle for Doldrey', so the movie is not suitable for everyone. Those who like sword-war theme and Anime especially gore will enjoy it. If you have not seen first two, begin with those, you will love this trilogy for sure. Now I am eagerly waiting for its fourth. Highly recommended for adults.
8/10
This story follows after a year since Guts and Griffith parted. Some of the escaped Hawk bands prepare for the rescue mission in the Casca's stand-in command to bring back their leader. Soon, Guts join them, the rescue team becomes much stronger. Not wasting much time the mission commence and what comes next is the unexpected twist and theme transformation. The dark world unleashes, without a mercy it assault the heroes and leaves the unforgettable scars. The best part of all these three movies were the way the movie ended. It leaves something broad open which makes us to guess what will happen next like a mind twister.
Yeah I know most of the people like Guts and it is my favourite character as well. In this part The Griffith character was weakened but we knew it coming. As he was a mysterious character from the very first movie especially with his 'golden egg' I knew there must be some story behind it. This movie did not explain that portions very well, maybe we can expect that in the next part, I hope so. And Casca was as usual supported very well.
The sex scenes were stronger like in 'The Battle for Doldrey', so the movie is not suitable for everyone. Those who like sword-war theme and Anime especially gore will enjoy it. If you have not seen first two, begin with those, you will love this trilogy for sure. Now I am eagerly waiting for its fourth. Highly recommended for adults.
8/10
Just when it was getting better
chnfu-682-86085210 January 2021
Still marred by the same issues, but definitely the best one so far
tuomas_gimli28 July 2013
Whereas the first two films ranged from merely passable to a downright butchering of the story, Descent finally finds a comfortable groove and is definitely the best one of the films so far.
Descent has many points in its favor before the film even starts; this movie covers the most important and character-focused part of the story without any massive battles or political plotting. The movie is focused solely on the survival of the Band of the Hawk, with the battles being small-scale skirmishes than entire armies clashing and the story moves away from the mundane and medieval aspects to the (personally) more interesting stuff with demons and the supernatural. This allows for a tighter focus and structure.
The pacing is far from perfect, but it's finally at least decent. After the first 20-30 minutes, the film finally takes some time with the characters, and actually manages to establish some emotional attachment to them. It's definitely a positive for the film.
In the first films the blend of hand-drawn animation and CG ranged from looking terrible to at best alright, but here it is finally used rightly. It's not perfect, but it's lightyears ahead of the first two. The studio has cleverly chosen to use CG for the character models, but their faces are animated in 2D. This does a good job of abridging the two different animation styles, and the moments when the two clash are far less numerous than before. The film being more character-focused also gives us more moments where they are animated fully hand-drawn, and it looks great. When the Eclipse begins, the movie really becomes a treat for the eyes: all the various monsters and the surreal landscapes of the demon world look great, and the action scenes are very well directed and animated.
But despite all this, Descent is far from great. The problems are smaller than before, but they're still the same. The biggest one is undoubtedly the pacing; the film still feels like a heavily cut down cliff's notes version of the story. If the film was 30-40 minutes longer, maybe then it could have covered everything that's in the story. The most outrageous examples of this are that a) we never find out what Guts has been doing during his year of absence and b) one scene where Caska seemingly arbitrarily switches between three completely different emotional states in the space of only a few minutes.
Despite the praise I gave the animation, the CG on the humans still looks jarring and is very easily noticed. It's less problematic than before, but still an issue. The score is a mixed bag; at times it's appropriately booming and ominous and at others bizarrely inappropriate. There are moments where mere silence would have suited some scenes better than the music in the film. In fact, the more ambient-styled score of the original series suited the Eclipse's nightmarish events better, and that's quite an odd thing to say, considering the original's fairly weak score.
The odd thing about Descent is that for every thing it does better than the series, it seems to get something else wrong. Here we finally see how Guts escapes the Eclipse, but Rickert's own mini-story has been almost entirely cut out. The animation is far better than the series, but the voice acting is clearly inferior. The film completes this part of the story, but so much that is important to future events has been cut out that continuing from this will be quite hard. The definitive animated version of Berserk might lie somewhere between these films and the original series. Perhaps by making a supercut of the two one would end up with a masterpiece.
Recommendation: Despite all I said, I enjoyed this film. It has its problems, lots of them, but the good ultimately outweighs the bad. Worth watching.
PS. For all you expecting Wyald and the Black Dogs: they're not here. Sorry.
Descent has many points in its favor before the film even starts; this movie covers the most important and character-focused part of the story without any massive battles or political plotting. The movie is focused solely on the survival of the Band of the Hawk, with the battles being small-scale skirmishes than entire armies clashing and the story moves away from the mundane and medieval aspects to the (personally) more interesting stuff with demons and the supernatural. This allows for a tighter focus and structure.
The pacing is far from perfect, but it's finally at least decent. After the first 20-30 minutes, the film finally takes some time with the characters, and actually manages to establish some emotional attachment to them. It's definitely a positive for the film.
In the first films the blend of hand-drawn animation and CG ranged from looking terrible to at best alright, but here it is finally used rightly. It's not perfect, but it's lightyears ahead of the first two. The studio has cleverly chosen to use CG for the character models, but their faces are animated in 2D. This does a good job of abridging the two different animation styles, and the moments when the two clash are far less numerous than before. The film being more character-focused also gives us more moments where they are animated fully hand-drawn, and it looks great. When the Eclipse begins, the movie really becomes a treat for the eyes: all the various monsters and the surreal landscapes of the demon world look great, and the action scenes are very well directed and animated.
But despite all this, Descent is far from great. The problems are smaller than before, but they're still the same. The biggest one is undoubtedly the pacing; the film still feels like a heavily cut down cliff's notes version of the story. If the film was 30-40 minutes longer, maybe then it could have covered everything that's in the story. The most outrageous examples of this are that a) we never find out what Guts has been doing during his year of absence and b) one scene where Caska seemingly arbitrarily switches between three completely different emotional states in the space of only a few minutes.
Despite the praise I gave the animation, the CG on the humans still looks jarring and is very easily noticed. It's less problematic than before, but still an issue. The score is a mixed bag; at times it's appropriately booming and ominous and at others bizarrely inappropriate. There are moments where mere silence would have suited some scenes better than the music in the film. In fact, the more ambient-styled score of the original series suited the Eclipse's nightmarish events better, and that's quite an odd thing to say, considering the original's fairly weak score.
The odd thing about Descent is that for every thing it does better than the series, it seems to get something else wrong. Here we finally see how Guts escapes the Eclipse, but Rickert's own mini-story has been almost entirely cut out. The animation is far better than the series, but the voice acting is clearly inferior. The film completes this part of the story, but so much that is important to future events has been cut out that continuing from this will be quite hard. The definitive animated version of Berserk might lie somewhere between these films and the original series. Perhaps by making a supercut of the two one would end up with a masterpiece.
Recommendation: Despite all I said, I enjoyed this film. It has its problems, lots of them, but the good ultimately outweighs the bad. Worth watching.
PS. For all you expecting Wyald and the Black Dogs: they're not here. Sorry.
The best of the trilogy, but still not the adaptation we needed
trevorkuntze9 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
While these films have all been a bit dodgy here and there, what with large chunks of the story omitted and the iffy 3D animation, this one definitely pulls everything off the best.
It looks like they've finally found a decent sweet spot to fix the poor animation of the other films by leaving faces animated in 2D with their bodies in 3D. They don't do this all the time, but the fact that I often never noticed the 3D in some scenes at all definitely means they're doing something right.
The Eclipse is incredible. The second it begins, everything is done so impeccably that I stand by this incarnation as the definitive way to experience that horror. The 3D actually works on the apostles, giving them an uncanny and distorted look that adds to the unsettling nature of it all. This version is so incredibly hard to watch and sit through for all the right reasons, even more so than the original manga in lots of places.
However, this movie still makes the terrible mistake of cutting out crucial emotional moments from the story. In the first film we had Guts' backstory omitted aside from a few low FPS flashbacks. In the second we had the campfire of dreams cut completely. It looks like the studio didn't learn their lesson, and one of the most beautiful moments in manga history has also been cut to pieces. Wounds is one of the most important pieces of this story, yet here it seems the only thing that was deemed worthy of adapting was the sex. We don't get any breakdowns and confessions, we don't get any beautiful moments, we don't even get the "licking each other's wounds" line at all. By cutting as much as they did, they made it impossible to reasonably adapt this extremely important scene. How can Guts open up about his father when we never even got to see Gambino in this series? The choices of what they cut and what they keep in is insane to me, and it's consistently whats dragging these films down every time.
I really do wish this wasn't the final installment of these films, because it does seem like the studio was getting better and better each time. Maybe if they had the chance, we could've had a truly worthy adaptation of Berserk. If you plan on watching this film in replacement of the manga, I'm sorry, but you shouldn't. At least, not with any of the story before the eclipse.
Skip Wyald though. That's fine.
It looks like they've finally found a decent sweet spot to fix the poor animation of the other films by leaving faces animated in 2D with their bodies in 3D. They don't do this all the time, but the fact that I often never noticed the 3D in some scenes at all definitely means they're doing something right.
The Eclipse is incredible. The second it begins, everything is done so impeccably that I stand by this incarnation as the definitive way to experience that horror. The 3D actually works on the apostles, giving them an uncanny and distorted look that adds to the unsettling nature of it all. This version is so incredibly hard to watch and sit through for all the right reasons, even more so than the original manga in lots of places.
However, this movie still makes the terrible mistake of cutting out crucial emotional moments from the story. In the first film we had Guts' backstory omitted aside from a few low FPS flashbacks. In the second we had the campfire of dreams cut completely. It looks like the studio didn't learn their lesson, and one of the most beautiful moments in manga history has also been cut to pieces. Wounds is one of the most important pieces of this story, yet here it seems the only thing that was deemed worthy of adapting was the sex. We don't get any breakdowns and confessions, we don't get any beautiful moments, we don't even get the "licking each other's wounds" line at all. By cutting as much as they did, they made it impossible to reasonably adapt this extremely important scene. How can Guts open up about his father when we never even got to see Gambino in this series? The choices of what they cut and what they keep in is insane to me, and it's consistently whats dragging these films down every time.
I really do wish this wasn't the final installment of these films, because it does seem like the studio was getting better and better each time. Maybe if they had the chance, we could've had a truly worthy adaptation of Berserk. If you plan on watching this film in replacement of the manga, I'm sorry, but you shouldn't. At least, not with any of the story before the eclipse.
Skip Wyald though. That's fine.
WTF DID I JUST WATCH
jonahrr23 August 2020
All aboard the feels express, and you will be transferred to Flight WTF to the Holy Sh*t Station. Enjoy.
hawks-6984713 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I am a man with lots of feelings, lots of fragile and optimistic feelings. My friend, who fully knew that I am an emotional man and knew the ending of the third act, told me to watch Berserk: the Golden Age. Afterwards, it went something like this.
Friend: Hey did you finish the movies?
Me:....yes
Friend: What did you think?
Me:...........................................why?
Friend: yea...that is how i felt.
Me: Yeah? Were you feeling: HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T, DID HE REALLY JUST DO THAT?
Let's just say that Game of Thrones is the teacup ride in Disneyland, and Berserk is the Kingda Ka in Six Flags. Everything came out of the blue, completely random. FOR NO REASON! Well, I needed some closure and comfort after that "Mind-rape".(that is literally what happens, a character was f*cked so hard, she becomes straight up retarded)So, I began reading the manga, and I can say that my feels were comforted a little afterwards. Berserk: Descent is a movie worthy of that title. It shows us why its called that in the most literal and gruesome way, and although the reasons and motives of this descent is still unclear, it gets the audience asking WHY WHY WHY? Which I am guessing is what the director wanted us to do. I give this a WTF/10. Enjoy.
Friend: Hey did you finish the movies?
Me:....yes
Friend: What did you think?
Me:...........................................why?
Friend: yea...that is how i felt.
Me: Yeah? Were you feeling: HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T HOLY SH*T, DID HE REALLY JUST DO THAT?
Let's just say that Game of Thrones is the teacup ride in Disneyland, and Berserk is the Kingda Ka in Six Flags. Everything came out of the blue, completely random. FOR NO REASON! Well, I needed some closure and comfort after that "Mind-rape".(that is literally what happens, a character was f*cked so hard, she becomes straight up retarded)So, I began reading the manga, and I can say that my feels were comforted a little afterwards. Berserk: Descent is a movie worthy of that title. It shows us why its called that in the most literal and gruesome way, and although the reasons and motives of this descent is still unclear, it gets the audience asking WHY WHY WHY? Which I am guessing is what the director wanted us to do. I give this a WTF/10. Enjoy.
Inferior to the 1997 series, but still a good movie.
evansgc5528 February 2021
The cinematography suffers in this film with a lot of close-ups and narrow framing, and the music is not great either and doesn't fit most scenes. The series was way better, and even the ending was in Purple rather than Red, which makes it less intense. Also the 3D is noticeably worse in Arc III, vs Arc I and II.
And the Worst bits are a Lot of tie-ins to their own series, Berserk 2016, which is just a terrible, unwatchable, series. The original 1997 series played it close with the manga But Also had it be a confined story, even leaving the ending ambiguous about his survival. The movie just straight-up smashes it's own agenda into the narrative and it is distracting, because you won't know anything about these random scenes because they are totally disconnected with the presentation of the Arc trilogy.
Overall, it's a good movie and a fine conclusion to the trilogy, with many things left to be desired. Not much of the friend characters again like Judeau and Corkus that the series had, not as inspiring nor impactful as the series, and all with questionable cinematography and cinematic decisions that reduce the overall spectacle. the 1997 series remains a 10/10 Masterpiece for me, it might even be Perfect with the only improvements possible in the FPS and animation Quality (details, more frames, etc); but the Movie series Overall, as in all combined, is definitely a 7/10 but certainly worth a spot on the shelf in a box-set. Also Way too much "magic" in this film, whereas the series was all physical and mostly realistic.
hate this ending
chineduhduru4 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I hate this part 3 of this movie... First of all I loved the part 1 and 2. The fight moves were great. The plots were wonderful. It held so much promise for Guts and Casca; I knew from the start that they would be lovers. And they ended up so in part 3. Yet there was a lurking feeling of an upcoming dark moment that u sense in part 1 and 2; that things could go wrong. But i never expected that the dark moment was darker than I imagined, seen at the end of part 3. it pains me very much; the violence, the agony, hate,... I was emotionally disturbed... creepy and nauseating. In the End: Grifith became bad, Casca goes mad and Guts loses not only his right arm but Casca, the woman he loves ... this movie should be tagged "Tragedy"!!!
Review - Berserk: Ougon jidai-hen III - Kourin
Maxence_G7 August 2020
This is the peak of what the Berserk trilogy has to offer in terms of drama, gore, nudity.
It is an extraordinary conclusion for this rather disturbing saga. The battles are as abundant in this film then it is predecessor, but they surpass everything, speaking of bloodshed. The motivations of those battles are more than ever relevant to the theme and the plot of the saga so we are enormously concerned about their outcome for our 3 protagonists.
However, be warned this anime is probably not for everyone. it deals with bizarre imagery, many torture sequences, rape, depression, shattered friendship, etc.
It is an extraordinary conclusion for this rather disturbing saga. The battles are as abundant in this film then it is predecessor, but they surpass everything, speaking of bloodshed. The motivations of those battles are more than ever relevant to the theme and the plot of the saga so we are enormously concerned about their outcome for our 3 protagonists.
However, be warned this anime is probably not for everyone. it deals with bizarre imagery, many torture sequences, rape, depression, shattered friendship, etc.
I don't know what to say
ayoubgaming-640307 December 2020
Gore Galore, Horror and More
ianwagnerwatches2 February 2022
"Berzerk: The Golden Age Arc I-III" = 7.9
It's not often that I find myself rooting for a man to slaughter people, for any reason. And yet, I never stopped rooting for Guts once. The Berzerk films sport a thoroughly engaging dark fantasy narrative, supported by entertaining and well animated action scenes. This series effortlessly glides between very funny and very serious, whichever it's trying to be at any given moment. The only real problem I have is that the dialogue can be really cheesy, clunky, if not simply detached from reality. Chalk it up to the translation, I suppose. Regardless, this film series is the sort of thing I show to people who think anime is silly, nothing but Dragon Balls and Narootoes, and it rarely fails to open minds to this huge world of animated cinema.
It's not often that I find myself rooting for a man to slaughter people, for any reason. And yet, I never stopped rooting for Guts once. The Berzerk films sport a thoroughly engaging dark fantasy narrative, supported by entertaining and well animated action scenes. This series effortlessly glides between very funny and very serious, whichever it's trying to be at any given moment. The only real problem I have is that the dialogue can be really cheesy, clunky, if not simply detached from reality. Chalk it up to the translation, I suppose. Regardless, this film series is the sort of thing I show to people who think anime is silly, nothing but Dragon Balls and Narootoes, and it rarely fails to open minds to this huge world of animated cinema.
Berserk: The "jazz" of story telling
itspuddingtimechildren5 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Some people want the same ol thing when they watch an medieval fantasy epic: the hero's journey, a little bit of conflict, good guy wins, happy ending, etc. So with Berserk, I can understand why some people might be sour towards it because it doesn't follow the safe familiar formula. But that is exactly why I personally loved the story: not because it had any sort of satisfying conclusion, but because it was an absolute "jazz" way of telling a story - no rules, anything goes. There were main characters, heroes you rooted for, a plot that was easy to follow, and story that made sense, a trajectory that was leading to heroic success, and then... IT ALL CAME CRUMBLING DOWN IN A SATANIC MESS OF CARNAGE AND CHAOS!!! A main good guy who you expect to be saved and restored is instead broken physically and mentally to the point of assaulting his female student/confidant, he then gives himself to the demonic lords whereafter he assaults her even more harshly. Our hero tries to save her and gets his arm chomped by a gigantic devilish monstrosity in the process, where he then has to chop, hack, and dig into his own muscle fibers and bone marrow to finally tear his flesh free from its grasp, leaving him permanently armless and eyeless, and even though they manage to escape it is obvious that they have not won any sort of victory.. Berserk is insane, inconclusive, indifferent, and absolutely inexcusable, and that's exactly why I'm in love with it.
Again disappointing
residentgrigo3 January 2015
The Berserk manga is my favorite peace of modern literature, i wear a Behelit around my neck every workday and this review is a response to D. Stockard lenghty 1/5 amazon review which you all should look up as his thought encapsulate mine perfectly but i liked a few more scenes: One would be Griffith's trippy transformation and his short fight against the Skull Knight. Thus i give it a slightly better rating but the movie committed the worst sin of all. Being boring, besides being irritating, which is a given at this point. The animation process again wasn't finished, as always. Movie 2 is the worst btw. from a cinematic standpoint as it was just 3 extended scenes with no context but movie 3 straight out vomit over the last parts of the Eclipse as it glorifies rape. I thus would love to know what Miura thought of this adaptation. Who knows what the studio will do with the rest of the manga but they should just stop. The folks at skullknight forums would love that but this project will at least give me a few nice AMVs and maybe a new Susuma song? Well, one can only dream...
A letdown
tenshi_ippikiookami2 September 2017
After the first two good movies of this trilogy, this last one,"The Advent", is a disappointment.
The story continues after the events that ended the previous one. Guts is back, and he gets back with Casca and the others. Pretty soon there is a rescue mission to get Griffith back and out of the dungeon where he is languishing.
What follows is a mess that lasts for over an hour.
What could have been a cool rescue mission or some nice fight scenes (as in the previous two), here descends into purposeless carnage, with gore, blood and monsters just making their appearance for not particular reason, and characters that had been developed in the previous two movies left as little more than just caricatures of themselves. We are not getting into this kind of action movies for their plot, but at least a little bit of interest in developing it and the characters is expected. And the action does not help in this case, because, as said, it is boring, repetitive and lazy.
Fans may enjoy reuniting with the characters, but there is little else to recommend.
The story continues after the events that ended the previous one. Guts is back, and he gets back with Casca and the others. Pretty soon there is a rescue mission to get Griffith back and out of the dungeon where he is languishing.
What follows is a mess that lasts for over an hour.
What could have been a cool rescue mission or some nice fight scenes (as in the previous two), here descends into purposeless carnage, with gore, blood and monsters just making their appearance for not particular reason, and characters that had been developed in the previous two movies left as little more than just caricatures of themselves. We are not getting into this kind of action movies for their plot, but at least a little bit of interest in developing it and the characters is expected. And the action does not help in this case, because, as said, it is boring, repetitive and lazy.
Fans may enjoy reuniting with the characters, but there is little else to recommend.
180° turn to fantasy horror! - disappointing compared to its predecessors
marioprmpi13 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Not Happy
loris-francoletti24 September 2020
After seeing the first two episodes, (and enjoying them), I was not expecting the third act to go in this direction. I felt like they run out of ideas and went into this totally different horror fantasy direction. But it seems that the story is simply following the original Manga. So maybe real Fans would have known what to expect but for me I felt like I was watching a different show.
I dont understand this movie lol
18Buddha7 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
First Two Movies was good and had u thinkin its a 95% straight ancient sword fighting war time anime movies with maybe a hint of lets say 5% of magical/supernatural when u see the necklace around the neck of griffith and that ogre like vampire monster with wings.
This 3rd film takes s complete 360 degrees and leaves u so confused i didnt get wtf i watched lmao.
Suddenly it had griffith become some type of monster and then u got all these demons and monsters suddenly appearing n killing everyone lol? Like literally 10 minutes is of the demons n monsters talking in riddles that u dont understand wtf they saying other then their basically saying Griffith is evil n gonna sacrifice them all.
Im very disappointed cuz i really loved the first 2 arc movies... they just sacrificed every character shown throughout the first 2 movies to just make Griffith transform into some demon god.
Everything happening after suddenly is just randomness that makes no sense.
This 3rd film takes s complete 360 degrees and leaves u so confused i didnt get wtf i watched lmao.
Suddenly it had griffith become some type of monster and then u got all these demons and monsters suddenly appearing n killing everyone lol? Like literally 10 minutes is of the demons n monsters talking in riddles that u dont understand wtf they saying other then their basically saying Griffith is evil n gonna sacrifice them all.
Im very disappointed cuz i really loved the first 2 arc movies... they just sacrificed every character shown throughout the first 2 movies to just make Griffith transform into some demon god.
Everything happening after suddenly is just randomness that makes no sense.
Watch the old one
snookie-66 September 2021
The only thing good about The Golden Age Arc is that the animation is sort of better.
Especially since the most important part of this story is the "ending" (which as most people in these reviews apparently don't know is just the beginning of the manga).
The voice acting is nothing compared to the original. And the score was awful. And while it would still have the shock factor, the anime from 97 feels a lot better. Since the ending is so controversial it is very important to do it justice, which they didn't.
I remember wanting to see how they would remake it when it was coming out and then being seriously disappointed as soon as I saw the Nosferatu Zodd fight. Berserk still remains the reason I got into anime. The storytelling is incredibly mature and to this day remains probably my number 1 favorite anime. The 1997 one!
And just to give you a hint of how good it was... after finishing the old one I spent half an hour replaying the Gatsu piano theme and staring at the ceiling, thinking about what had I just seen and thinking how everything else I watch from now on would be judged more harshly. The music, the acting, the images, everything was haunting and surreal.
This feels like a cheap remake and all of the great moments are (at least to me) ruined...
Especially since the most important part of this story is the "ending" (which as most people in these reviews apparently don't know is just the beginning of the manga).
The voice acting is nothing compared to the original. And the score was awful. And while it would still have the shock factor, the anime from 97 feels a lot better. Since the ending is so controversial it is very important to do it justice, which they didn't.
I remember wanting to see how they would remake it when it was coming out and then being seriously disappointed as soon as I saw the Nosferatu Zodd fight. Berserk still remains the reason I got into anime. The storytelling is incredibly mature and to this day remains probably my number 1 favorite anime. The 1997 one!
And just to give you a hint of how good it was... after finishing the old one I spent half an hour replaying the Gatsu piano theme and staring at the ceiling, thinking about what had I just seen and thinking how everything else I watch from now on would be judged more harshly. The music, the acting, the images, everything was haunting and surreal.
This feels like a cheap remake and all of the great moments are (at least to me) ruined...
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