Looking forward to the next movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Last Transmutation! Fullmetal Alchemist the Revenge of Scar had redeemed the FMA Live-Action Movies Status to be as good as other successful Japanese Anime/Manga Live-Action movies. Overall, am very happy with this movie and excited whenever a scene from the manga/FMAB pop up. Some of the actors lack the figure to portray their characters accurately (Armstrong, Scar, Pinako etc), but hey, finding someone their size/height that can act well and speak fluent Japanese isn't easy so they are forgiven for the choice of cast. Looking forward to how they portray the next stage of their character in the next movie. Kokoro Terada (Selim/Pride) and Hiroshi Tachi (King Bradly/Wrath) also shine well with their characters. Still a slightly stiff but a lot more LIKE Envy we know of, unlike his extremely stiff & passive acting in the 1st movie. Cast-wise, Kanata Hongo (Envy) had improved his portrayal of Envy. Changes made are subtle but their end results still remained the same as in the manga. The Story Flow is a bit fast but there is so much that can be condensed into a 2h plus movie. They are not afraid anymore to have larger Supporting Casts by having the characters we are familiar with from the manga/FMAB Anime, characters sadly missed out in the 1st movie. For example, Alice in Borderland did a great job with both casting and character buildup.Īfter the disappointments of the first movie back in 2017, was skeptic that this 2nd movie will follow suit but it seems the writers had learned their lessons, listen to the fans and followed as close as possible to the FMA Manga/FMAB Storyline for this 2nd movie. I don't think you can lay the blame on the actors, but I think the people in charge of the casting, should have done more research and understood what makes the characters awesome to the audience. I really doubt the anime Armstrong would be proud of that body. and he looks stressed out / constipated in every of his dialogue. In the live action, the actor has a fake tan. He also has the easiest move to create transmutation to emphasize that "not having to try too hard". His complexion is fair which is suppose to symbolise the opposite of Scar, who grew up in hardship. Roy Mustang is just wrong - his character in the anime is someone who is confident and smug which suggest he's never had to worked too hard to get to where he is because of background, his genius or whatever. Bad acting: the lack of character buildup is exacerbated by overacting/anime type expressions by Edward, Winry and the side characters. Lack of character buildup: I sincerely hope Japanese Anime Live action Directors will one day realize that the character buildup in Anime is what makes the audiences fall in love so hard with the characters and create that powerful connection with the show. I don't know if it's just me but the comic timing is painful - it's like a friend who insist on telling a joke without a buildup and just force it on everyone during a gathering. Strange quiet scenes and lack of interesting or funny dialogues does make it cheap. Great character design / dressing, great background scene. It is only half of a story that we already have, a lot better done, as anime and manga.ġ. Bottom line: even if you want to watch it, there is no need to do so until the second part pops up. And when you are properly confused, the film ends with "To be continued". There is another Xingian girl who protects Scar, a master that tells Scar to let go, Envy and Gluttony, all the alchemists and their people, random people of the same race as Scar and so on. There is Winry, which is somehow connected to both Ed and Scar. But there is also Lin, a prince from Xing - a fictional version of China, trying to capture homunculi. In this film, Scar shows up trying to kill as many state alchemists as possible, due to their involvement in the genocidal war that destroyed his nation. I guess some people prefer to watch the live version or hate animation or both. Live action films, on the other hand, have to have actors who speak Japanese - good luck funding a tiny blonde person to play the main role, combine actors with CGI - good luck having enough money for special effects that are even on par with an anime can draw, and most of all, have to map the emotions in the drawing to real people - good luck with that! In other words this was a destined to be a failure, yet somehow money was found to make the film happen. The magic of manga is that you can show anything you want, your imagination being the only limit. However, having seen the anime and read the manga, I can't understand how they can make a movie that feels so lackluster and dead.
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