It’s also good to see Edward and Alfonse interact more here, though the brotherly connection – arguably Fullmetal Alchemist’s strongest suit – is still lacking a touch. Mackenyu’s Scar is surprisingly nuanced (if bafflingly young considering how long ago the war happened), and Kanata Hongo’s Envy actually manages to showcase a touch more complexity in his scenes. Also in its favour are the actors, who are all doing at the vest least a decent job. There’s still lots of exposition, this time whenever we get flashbacks to the war, so it’s not like the story gets to progress naturally.
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That said, it does feel a little better than the first film, now that a lot of introductions are done away with, but it’s not enough to elevate this live-action series over just watching the original show(s).
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Considering how much of a constant threat Scar was, and how much time his development and arc needed to resolve in a satisfying way, a two hour movie that shares its runtime with a whole lot of other crap isn’t going to cut it. But Revenge’s need to go into FMA’s greater story involving the homunculi, Lin, the Fuhrer and everything else means we’re too busy watching all that go down that the famously heart-wrenching scene in the anime where Winry discovers Scar killed her parents is barely given more than a minute to wrap up. I can accept some silly costuming, wigs and over the top anime acting if it’s in service of something great. Had it chosen to focus solely on the Scar stuff, with a lot of time dedicated to the tragedies of the war, then Revenge might have actually stood a chance at being a halfway decent movie. Once again, there’s a lot going here and the film doesn’t have nearly the amount of running time it needs to get it all across with any weight. While the original source didn’t really divide itself into arcs, the two main plots that are covered here are the Ishvalan warrior Scar (Arata Mackenyu)’s attack on state alchemists as retaliation for Central’s part in the Ishvalan War of Extermination, as well as his clashes with protagonists Edward and Alphonse (Ryosuke Yamada and Atom Mizuishi) and the introduction of Ling Yao (Keisuke Watanabe), May (Ron Monroe) and their search for immortality. The terribly-titled Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar is the result of that seeming inevitability. I had assumed that this was one and done, but it appears that the film’s popularity on Netflix and baffling inclusion on many “best anime adaptation” lists guaranteed a sequel would eventually come out. It was a hollow shell of its source material, recognisable only thanks to some careful costuming and a rushed, if mostly straightforward retelling of some story elements. There’s only one thing I really remember about 2017’s live action adaptation of beloved manga and anime Fullmetal Alchemist: it’s that I really didn’t like it.
The Fullmetal Alchemist movies continue to be visually pretty but as void as the inside of Gluttony.
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