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Summary: What the hell.....
Review: Personally I love good looking anime, and this movie is very good looking. But this movie had a super complex start, and it gets worse from there. Don't get attached to any one character because no one has a happy day in this flick. It is very depressing and just hard to watch, if you do get it and want some huge climatic battles, you sorta get that, but not in the way you would expect, its just mainly the grunts floating around killing each other. Personally I think they tried a bit to hard on this film, sometimes simple is better. Hear they just made everything complex and really hard to swallow. If your looking for a good looking anime with a super complex plot, this is a gem. But if you don't want to think and become depressed when you watch it avoid this one. Hard to follow, sums this film up pretty quick.
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Summary: Too bad.
Review: The animation in this movie is of great quality. Which makes it really sad that the movie is just plain bad. The makers of this movie just expect you to know too much stuff in advance in order to understand what is going on. Stuff happens and you have no idea, no clue, no anything. Now I don't like my movies to be explained to me in full painful detail, I'm not an idiot, I like figuring things out for myself, but this movie has huge plot holes. The plot is like an abbreviated version of the comic's, and that's too much material to cram into a movie. The same thing happened with Akira, only Akira is actually a great movie. Both the comic and the movie Akira work independent from one another. X, on the other hand is not so lucky. If you've read the comic you'll have a clue as to what's happening but otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. Don't waste your time watching another bad movie. Read a book, it wouldn't hurt.
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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: Okay, let's get it straight here, I like CLAMP, I like Rintaro. So how could this anime have gone so terribly wrong?First off, your basing a movie off of material (CLAMP'S X/1999) that was STILL IN PUBLICATION when the movie was made. So of course A LOT of stuff was cut out. Second, the plot was reduced to a 90 minute "[fight] fest." People appeared and dissapeared for no reason whatsoever! And there's a lot of the "what the hell's going on" factor. We never have time to dive into the characters, so when they die...we don't care. Third, it is poorly scripted. The first act, Kamui spends deciding which side he should join. The second act, everyone is offed one by one. Where's the middle? Fourth, one of the worst endings ever. Fifth, bad BAD voice acting. Both Japanese and English. Well, I've said it. The only plus this movie has going for it is the animation. Everything else is crap. Avoid this one. Or better yet, try to find a bootleg copy of the OVA or the TV series. At least then you get some more substance for the style. Let's face it, this is one time that "X" didn't mark the spot. -RW
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Summary: The real reason I learnt Japanese
Review: I am a manga reader so when I found out (at volume 15 of the manga) that X had been made into an anime I waited patiently for what I thought was a series, instead they made a movie. I was skeptical, the manga itself is massive but this blew me away. Its hard to review it and not give any spoilers, its so compact, but I cried when I finished this. Okay so half the characters are missing and the story is condensed, but like a can of Campbells soup, it only works for the better. You could not watch this film once, there's too much information, you have to buy it and watch it again and again and again, and you'll want to. When Arashi pushes the sword from her own hand is one of the most beautiful scenes in anime. Although the artists are responsible for Card captor Sakura, this one's definitely not for kids.
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Summary: Very Depressing Anime - _ -
Review: It wasn't what I'd expected, to tell you the truth. It had turned out more depressing than I thought. Maybe I would say they lacked developing the characters, but all the same, if you know about the story and manga, you'd fall in love with the characters - even the bad guys. Unlike the other reviewers, I'd say there WAS a plot(if you know CLAMP very well, you'd understand) The story is sooooo CLAMP-like. Nanase Ohkawa - one of the CLAMP members, who creates the stories and plots, likes putting twists and turns you'd never expect and fate plays a huge part in the stories of CLAMP. But the results are not always pretty. I'd cried my heart out for hours after watching this movie. *_* Don't ask why and yes, I KNOW it's just an anime, but the characters seem so real. Just imagine you are in the characters' shoes. I'm sure you'd feel SOMEthing. :p I'd give it a 4-half stars if not for the character-developing thing. And I don't know why some of the reviewers said the ending song was terrible. It suited the anime perfectly if you ask me. Well, that is if you understand the lyrics. But well, this is just my opinion.
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Summary: Pretty Good animation, I enjoyed it..
Review: ..But then I never read the 30+ volume manga series, so as someone who never read X the manga, I liked the artwork and the action sequences in the movie enough to give it a good review. I've seen much worse (cardcraptors and pokepuke to name a few).
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Summary: Nothing like the books, but damn good!
Review: This reminds me of the Rayearth OAVs, set in an alternate universe & is considerably more morbid. (& yet again I wonder what's with CLAMP's <esp. Nanase's> constant obsession with obliterating Tokyo<Toukyou> Since the book series is still ongoing (& yet going nowhere-_-) it would be difficult to fit all the pieces togeather without already knowing something about the series. (ps, there is a new X1999 series currently in Japan.)
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Summary: if youv'e never seen the series read this
Review: Maybe if i had sceen the series i would like this movie..however not seeing it i woul dgove it no stars but alas the lowest i can go is 1. fault one. Pointless unresolved, No plot.... Reason there is none at all. Fault 2 violence (I like my actionsequenses) in this movie they are just flasbacks and images of blood n stuff with no explanation....Fault 3. Animation isn't that Great. I bought this movie so you dont have to...blease dont buy or waste time watching (at least see the whole series first. uggg 2 years later it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. "taste like rotten egg"
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Summary: Great manga series, SHOCKING anime!!!!
Review: I'm sure you already get the picture by reading other reviews. I'm just writing this to reinforce the point that this is a very dissapointing attempt of compressing 20Volumes+ manga series into one 90 minutes movie. If you can, get the manga serie instead, because it is very beautifully done, the art work and the story line are superb and you actually get to know all the characters in the story. The movie shocked me from the first 5 minutes when Subaru(from Tokyo Babylon) dies so quickly, while in the manga he is one of the most important character of the whole story. Then one by one all the characters start to drop like flies until there are two left for the main battle scene. My advice; don't blink because you might miss the whole final battle. Not even a great ending song by X-Japan(an awesome J-rock band) could save this movie, it is an insult to the manga series!!!!! If you want to spend money on an apocalyptic style of anime I suggest you get Angel Sanctuary or Earthians instead.
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Summary: X (2.6 stars)
Review: With such an uninspired title I should have been optimistic. But I am a Anime fan, so I gave it a chance. Just as the amazon.com reviewer stated, the plot of "X" is so simple, yet it is made extremely complicated by back and forth scene shifting, similar to a Quentin Tarantino film and too many characters. "X" is a rather dark film which has the overused, and generic plot which pits a man against the destruction of the entire world. The "dragons" are superior beings who battle each other throughout Tokyo. The dragons from earth, do not want to destroy the earth, but destroy the human race which they feel is destroying their earth. The dragons from heaven are sent to stop the earth dragons. The battles are often quick and become too repetitive. Many of the beings a.k.a. dragons have their own special power. The dragons from heaven create a shield each time they battle so the rest of the city does not get damaged. As the film slowly moves along, the last 20 minutes are a bloody mess, where most of the chracters parish in quick sequences. But by then I didn't care, I just wanted the film to end. The last scene is a sentimental sequence between a man and a body-less head! It supposed to be sad, but I found it rather amusing. Don't get me wrong, "X" isn't the worst Anime film, it's just average. My review may have pointed out all the negative, but the film did have it's positives. The animation production is by Mad House who did the classic "Ninja Scroll." My theory: rent this before you think of buying it.
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