I just watched Gundam 00 Movie : Awakening of The Trailblazer, and my oh my, what a dissappointing experience. Before we go on with the review, here's a quick summary.
" The movie starts with a movie. Descartes Shaman appeared, being badass and all, piloting the Gadaleza, shoot a ship or something. The debris then fall into earth causing paranormal activity or something (moving trucks, train crashing and all). Ribbon Almarks appear, yet do nothing except then being creepy. Shaman dies, Tieria appeared. New gundams for the boys, Shaman dies, Tieria dies and become a fairy. Setsuna being emo all the way, dissapeared and THE END~!"
The Review
From the 1st time i heard there's going to be a Gundam 00 movie, i was kinda excited. Maybe we will see a new light after the diassapoinment that is season 2. And then i saw the new gundams for the movie. Raphael looks cool, Harute look badass but Zabanya looks retarded. I mean, who the heck design Zabanya? a gundam, with a fence for skirts?? Fuck. And then we saw 00Q(T). I like the sword and all, everything else looks the same. Still quite good.
Then the bad news came. I heard from a forum, Celestial Being is going to fight aliens from outer space! Now that sounds stupid. I dont know. Gundam always for me is about the survival of mankind, the horrific tale of war, revenge and that all. And suddenly, aliens? out of nowhere?
Basically the world is moving along nicely, there are peace here and there, there's not much work for Celestial Being and the peaceful list goes on. Well, there's the occasional intervention like when Setsuna saves Marina using a mofidied Flag (that looks cool). Out of nowhere, we are introduced to Descartes Shaman, a character that serves no purpose whatsoever to the movie. I know he works for the government or something but why did he have to die so suddenly? What a waste of a character. I mean, he could be the anti-hero that fights alongside Setsuna or something but instead he died without knowing what is his purpose in life. That sucks.
The return of Tieria is good. and then he dies in order to save Setsuna. That is quite good actually as he is technically immortal. He is Veda by the way. I feel glad that he was inserted as part of 00Q(T) system. but the annoying part is, why did he has to be a goddamn annoying holographic little fairy. I mean, if i pilot the 00Q(T), it could be quite annoying to see him here and there, OBSTRUCTING my view when fighting with some aliens. It would be enough if he would just be a voice in the system to warn Setsuna.
The final war also seems like a big mess of clusterfuck for me. There's so many things happening in one moment that u didnt even know what is happening. Theres Harute suddenly fly over, a Flag, GNX or something start shooting randomly. Its a mess.
The ELS or the aliens in the movie didnt seem to achieve my expectation of how aliens should be. They're like some kind of liquid metal that absorbs things and turn them into crytal like being. The movie didnt even show any lifeform that we could consider to be aliens. I mean, is the aliens that liquid metal thingy? kinda boring. I was wondering the whole time, where is the goddamn alien. is the alien the planet? is the alien a micro-organism or something. We will never know. The movie didnt even take time to explain it.
Suddenly, in the end, Setsuna says, "lets go to their homeland" and then poof. the movie ends. what the fuck. I was confused, baffled by the lack of explanation. He made a flower that came out of nowhere, that i think referring to his appreciation for Feldt and then, 50 years later, he came back to get Marina? why not Feldt? I dont even understand.
Yeah, there's some good moments in the movie like the fights, the horror of ELS (especially that train crashing incident), great mobile suits design but all of that is not enough to compare to the lack of plot a.k.a. the storytelling of the movie. This movie is a dissappointment to me. I know a lot of gundam fans will say that Gundam 00 movie is one of the best, but for me, it didnt even achieve my expectation of how a good movie should be like. Go watch Gundam F91, that is better then this baffling no-point-money-milking gundam movie.
Thats all from me, i give this movie a 6/10. Thank you for reading. Be sure to drop ur opinion about this movie in the comment section.
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