The Promised Neverland (2020) User Reviews

It's alright

[RealDecentHumanBeing · 6/10 · 17 January 2021]

I read the entire manga and watched the anime version. This is entirely my personal opinion of this live-action:

• PLOT: Since the producer tried to compressed lot of content into a 2h movie, the pace is rush and many details have to be changed/ignored and I can understand that. But there are some important details that link directly to the story, like the age of children, are also changed (I guess because the age of the actors).
• ACTING: It's alright, they do sort of have the elements that represent the characters, but sometimes it feels a little excessive.
• VISUAL: The demons look scary, children are cute, the house and forest kind of have the normal-but-mysterious vibe

actually pretty good for what it was worth

[BigDaddy4000 · 7/10 · 24 August 2021]

Ok, so usually live action anime adaptations are pretty forgettable, but i would say this one was actually a bit above average for its genre. They did make a couple changes to the anime (which i will get to in a moment) and some were good, others werent. For example, emma and norman find out that the transmitters are in their ears pretty much instantly in this version without having to investigate to figure it out, there was also this new scene where korone was about to find the transmitter destroyer, and to its credit it was actually pretty tense. Now the acting was mostly pretty good from what i can tell (i dont speak japanese so i couldnt tell you for sure) they had to age up the characters from 12 to 15 in this version, probably because they couldnt find any decent 12 year old actors to play the part. Then again the actor for phil was also decent so i think they probably could have done it without changing the characters ages if they looked hard enough. Korones acting was pretty over the top though, i mean even ignoring the fact that they got a white actor to portray her, she was way too over the top with her preformance. Also the movie had a few weird editing tricks, liek in one scene where korone was walking towards the kids and the director thought it would be a good idea to comically speed up the footage of her walking, it looked really goofy. The demons actually looked pretty good in the movie, they werent seen very often but when we did they looked pretty real. They were animated with CGI and the way they physically interacted with the humans looked convincing.

So yeah, the movie actually ended up being not terrible, if youre a fan of the anime or the manga i would say maybe give this a try, you might like it.

Pretty good for a live action adaptation!

[usrthea · 14 October 2023]

This live action film is surprisingly good. The only problems with it was it was somewhat rushed, the characters are aged up, and the effects of the demons aren't the best, but that's basically it. Fortunately the demons don't appear very much throughout the movie so I can give their appearance a pass. The acting is solid. Although, Emma, Norman and Ray are clearly not the same age and Emma looks a little too much like an adult. The music is great. The props, sets and costumes are all accurate to the manga/anime. And the story is overall a faithful adaptation despite cutting a few things for time. It also includes a few things that the first arc of the manga didn't include such as Norman's conversation with Peter Ratri right after he is shipped out. Overall, this is definitely one of the better live action adaptations of a manga/anime. I wouldn't recommend it over reading the first arc of the manga or watching the first season of the anime, but if you're a fan of The Promised Neverland, you should certainly check it out!

Despite the film performing well, I unfortunately don't see them making a sequel to this since the next arc in the manga would be pretty difficult to adapt into live action, but I think the first arc works pretty well as a self contained story so it's still worth watching imo.

A really good effort!

[hbrik555 · 10/10 · 4 June 2021]

I really enjoy this film! The three main actors were really good in it. Minami Hamabi was born to be a Star. The plot goes fast compared to the Manga and the Anime but it works well for the film and with what is trying to do. The cinematography is superb in the film and the Deamons are not very scary but that's Ok, they work for the story. I recommend reading the Manga after watching the film for more details to the story. Highly recommended film!