Production-wise, it is immaculate.
From the beautiful animations, to the employed designs, cinematography, characters and even the choice of music.
Sadly, while it isn't a terrible movie, it fails to be something at all.. The movie is quite long, and feels even longer. Keeping the viewer always at a distance from anything interesting or concrete. I find really unappealing how it pretends to be something (logic and medicine), while the story clearly shows you something else entirely (spiritual and magical). What are we to take out of it exactly!? What was the message?
Even the way it wraps up is completely unsatisfying.
The comparisons to Mononoke are utterly unavoidable. And rob it of any individuality and tarnishing the layer of creativity and world-building it could have attained alone. It's so weird when a studio could be capable of copying something half-way with such quality, yet leaving it without a soul.
It's hard to care for these kind of photoplays.
I'd give it a 5, but everything aside from the script is just too good.
From the beautiful animations, to the employed designs, cinematography, characters and even the choice of music.
Sadly, while it isn't a terrible movie, it fails to be something at all.. The movie is quite long, and feels even longer. Keeping the viewer always at a distance from anything interesting or concrete. I find really unappealing how it pretends to be something (logic and medicine), while the story clearly shows you something else entirely (spiritual and magical). What are we to take out of it exactly!? What was the message?
Even the way it wraps up is completely unsatisfying.
The comparisons to Mononoke are utterly unavoidable. And rob it of any individuality and tarnishing the layer of creativity and world-building it could have attained alone. It's so weird when a studio could be capable of copying something half-way with such quality, yet leaving it without a soul.
It's hard to care for these kind of photoplays.
I'd give it a 5, but everything aside from the script is just too good.