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G-Saviour - The Movie

G-Saviour - The Movie

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is a must see!!
Review: The CG Rocks, the story works, and the production quality is fabulous. The acting could have used a little more direction, OK maybe a lot more direction. But on the overall this is a must see for Gundam Fans. When is the next one coming???

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Live Action Gundam
Review: The year is Universal Century 223 and the Congress of Settlement Nations, or CONSENT, controls the Earth Sphere. At this time, the world is plagued with global famine that is taken the notice of everyone. Mark Curran, an ex-consent soldier, is forced to become the pilot of the Gundam G-Savior and to protect the discovery of a new type of Bioluminescence that could solve the world hungar crisis found by the Gaian Cynthia Graves and Dr. Reva from a conspiracy to have selective famine around the world by the corrupt Consent. They head towards the colony of Gaia where there will be a clash between Consent forces, Gaian defence forces, and the rebel faction called the Illuminati.

The Mobile suits look as if they were made from the One Year War Era and the plot seems to be slow in development. The only advanced technology that this movie has are the Beam Shield element from the series V Gundam. It is an okay movie, but it is suggested that you should be at least familiar with the world of Gundam or you will be completely lost in this world of giant robots, space ships, human emotion and trials, and corrupt world governments.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Sterotypical Gundam... and it WORKS.
Review: There are certain themes that run in the classic Gundam series. Corrupt politics, corrupt military, the latest advance in Mobile Suit technology, betrayal by the one you most trusted, etc, tec...

And of course, the pilot that didn't WANT to be a pilot. But HAD to be.

In this, G-Saviour comes full circle. It's about 130 years AFTER the original series. Politics and the like are all so different, and still somewhat the same.

And a crisis is arising. The reason is pretty contrived-- but hey, face it-- the original wasn't? No, in a way, this makes MORE sense.

But what impressed ME was that the actors did this movies and DIDN'T seem lame.

No... they seemed ANIME.

For the FIRST TIME EVER we have live action actors acting like ANIME characters. INCLUDING the sometimes over the top stuff we are used to expecting from anime characters. And, in my opinion, for once it worked.

Ever seen the live action Fist of the North Star? BAD movie. (Although, sadly, it was better than the ANIMATED FOTS movie.)

But G-S WORKS.

Because EVERYONE in the flick is NOT trying for an Academy award. They are being typical Anime characters. They are pulling the SAME bonehead plays that we have all come to know and love. And for once, it WORKS.

It doesn't hurt that the computer generated mobile suits are downright real. I can BELIVE in these suits. It's scary.

90 minutes of mind-candy... not any different from an OAV... just with real people.

Perfect? No.

Good? If you like Gundam, yes. (And for those who ask why the term Gundam was never bought up-- Hey, it's 130 years LATER! Even a GUNDAM can become obsolete...)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Boring....Not look like Gundam at all!
Review: This is a waste. Story line is so Boring!..Plot is very very slow...Less Mondo Mecha...The only good thing is the CG...but that's not enough!..The first 30 mins , you just only see 2 mobile suit show up in a few seconds..one is a worker type another one is the commander. I don't feel like I'm watching Gundam!... They tried to focus on that BORING LIQUID THING!...Sunrise should make the story line better than this , the Action Scene and CG are less than 30% of the movie....The rest (70%)_You'll see poor acting, slow plot....less Mobile Suit scenes than you expect.......DISSAPPOITED!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is the kewlist live-action Gundam Film ever.
Review: This is the live kick butt movie for you Gundam fans out there. I thinks the other fans out there thinks this movie stinks because it has no anime. O well just enjoy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is the kewlist live-action Gundam Film ever.
Review: This is the live kick butt movie for you Gundam fans out there. I thinks the other fans out there thinks this movie stinks because it has no anime. O well just enjoy it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: ugh
Review: This movie is a live action gundam. Now, gundam is my favorite anime series and i think, that for the most part they are done quite well. This movie should only be rented (hopefully you didnt buy it on a whim like i did) if you want to see EXTREMLY short ok cgi sequences surrounded by the worst acting youve ever seen

Pros- Its giant robots!
OK CGI

Cons- short and few mobile suit battles
Horrible acting
lame cast

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: More of an episode of the Outer Limits than anything Gundam
Review: This movie is ok by American sci-fi standards if not associated with the Gundam franchise...but as a 20th aniversary celebration it falls well short of Sunrise's usual standards. The plot is incredibly simplistic and the cliche characters are all far too happy and care-free for being on the verge of war.

The "war" is quite small as we see maybe a total of about 80 mobile suits(including the reinforcements from the incredibly cliche "illuminati" force of quasi-gundams that arrive without any fleet transport/escort at the end) and only two ships built for battle, one of which is a mobile suit transport with no apparent weapons of its own.

The G-Savior is quite a joke as far as Gundams go as well. In EVERY Gundam series the main Gundam is an advanced suit that is better than the mass-produced models. From what we can see, the G-Savior is actually INFERIOR to the RX-78 original Gundam in everything other than appearance.

To tell the truth, I feel really sorry for those that worked on the project and the shame they must feel for their failure. It really would not be difficult to create a story that would fit in Gundam's impressive storyline and to have memorable characters, but apparently it was beyond them.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not what you would expect
Review: This movie is quite a dissapointment compared to the Gundam series it is supposed to be derived from. It is a typical sci-fi action movie, it draws on images and ideas from Gundam Series but does not build upon anything from or add to the gundam series.
As a "stand alone" movie it is average- watch it if you have nothing else better to do but not something I would set aside time to watch. Acting was "stiff", chracters were shallow- plot was marginally acceptable and has some "logic" errors. Does not come any where near the rich character and background of the gundam series.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Could have been better
Review: This movie was a dissapointment. First of all, the placement of it in the gundam timeline was ridiculous. It takes place 150 years after the last animated series ended and the technology had not changed at all. It would not really fit in the timeline anywhere anyways because it is so far from the origonal plot. The plot is hopeless, basing it around some sort of famine and a miraculous, all-powerful, glowing-liquid solution to the problem. The name is not very fitting either. The gundam G-Saviour had a total screen time of about 5 minutes, if that. It was more of a love story than anything else. It would have been better if the movie was made now, since computer animation is easier and better looking(the mobile suits are not very good). The only thing that saved this movie from being a total failure is the fairly good acting. The people retain the anime-like acting qualities of the gundam series'. This movie would be a lot better if one of the actual gundam story writers had participated in its production. You should really only get this if you are a die-hard gundam fan and would not be very offended by its poorness.


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