Reviews

Less than 15 mins in I was considering to not complete the movie bc of the cringy scenes, clique lines, and the voice acting of his son that was hard to digest. Just like our characters, I decided to still embark on this journey, but I ended up having less of an adventure....in fact i had no adventure at all. I got so bored i decided to spend my time critiquing this movie while watching as it was more fun than watching the movie.

The creative world and vivid animation is ruined by choppy writing, shallow characters, senseless character motivation, poorly developed plot, and very...very...very dry "humor". Dialogue seemed to have been written by a pre-teen on a fiction writing forum and if it wasnt for the animation, i would have never finished the movie.

A couple of actual examples of stupid moments:

• The dad knows that splat is a bad creature and is with the son but than doesnt acknowledge it later when splat is cool w the son
• the grandad just has a flamethrower in this underground world???? How
• Ship is crashed badly and then one person fixes it in like 10 mins???

• "That was so primal outpost!" - primal outpost is a game in this workd... this doesnt even make any sense. Its like saying "That was so Valorant!"
• They invented a form of really advanced flying and they never exployed enough of their world to understand they live on a giant creature???

This was a plane watch for me and I had annoying glare on my screen for a good portion, but I actually did enjoy this.

There's some critic about this film because of it not being true to the 47 ronin story. Although, it chooses to stay vaguely close while adding its own fictional twist to it, I see that as totally okay and it should not be judged bc of the source material.

It manages to have a surprisingly cool blend of traditional samurai film with modern CGI. Although not the best all the time, it was just really cool to see in general and actually kept me on my toes in the beginning, being able to see a traditional samuari take on a wild fictional demon beast. The movie is slow and the actors are kind of stiff, but honestly that's just kinda how older movies are, which it purposelly stayed close to that style. Knowing that, I wasn't too bothered.

This movie was extremely hard hitting on the symbolism, morals and themes. Just like one of the main themes of the story, honesty, the characters reflect that as well. They all seem to be portrayed in one way, like the daughter being a f-cked up human being or the mother being despising, but we come to learn there's more to them, just like with anyone in life. Branden Fraser is that truth lens for us, allowing us to understand his daughter's internal greatness and the care and strength his wife has. Yet, despise his positiveness, we are also introduced to the realities of depression. Despite him truthfully having care for everyone and not wanting to be a burden to anyone and wanting others around him and the world to be truthful...he has literally killed himself by not being truthful toward himself. He has ignored his well being for the sake of others and he has lost all motivation to better himself because of his own perception of himself, punishing himself even. However, the truth is painfully but necessarily given to him by his daughter, and she becomes the catalyst to help him, as she did to the new life guy. Although not in health, he was able to be freed at the end.

The reason this movie isn't perfect for me however, is actually also because it is adapted from a play. With an almost constant sequence of back and forth conversation/argument and monologues, it just feels less and less like a full-fledged movie, despite how great it was to watch.

Overall, this film is a must watch for anyone. It's raw and powerful and wonderfully executed. It's amazing how they only used one location but in a way that didn't feel too boring. Everyone had great acting, but specifically for me Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, and Hong Chau had the most moving moments.

This show was a random find but was really worth it to watch. It was unique and eccentric and will make you interested in chess!

There were a few things that i thought made it lacking of a higher rating (spoilers):

• Her last training scene with Benny was a huge amount because of how amazing she got without using drugs and alcohol. However, this was barely stressed and explored with her struggle of addiction and growth. It was only pointed out at the beginning that Benny didn't allow alcohol.
• The last chess match scene with Bogor was really intense because it drew the audience into a real chess match and helped us understand what position Beth is in and what she does to overcome it and win. This felt like the only time they did that with a chess match scene - everything else felt like it was cut short and automatically skipped to the end of the chess game.