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Summary: Good Movie!!!
Review: I don't see why people dont like it. The art is amazing! But the story line sucks... Im a HUGE fan of X/1999 and I liked the movie. But compared to the books it has no chance. It's not possible to fit the story into 90 mins when it has over 18 manga! Any way the story is different but the arts good and if your a fan of X/1999, you should at least see it.
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Summary: movies like this make me long for a zero star rating
Review: horrendous. this is a glaring example of why any Manga that lasts over 100 pages should be made into a series and not a movie (Akira nonwithstanding). you can see that the characters all have traits and personalities, but we dont get a chance to really know any of them before they are all promptly killed off. and yes, i do mean ALL killed off. one, count em, one main character survives this convoluted debacle. i cant wait to see what they do with the series, cause they certainly cant do any worse.
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Summary: A True Crapsterpiece
Review: This has no plot, no emotion, and no character development. Buy the Series its way better than this piece of garbage. They tried to squeeze and epic story into 100 minutes and its just not enough time to show the compexity of the characters and let the conclusion build up. I hear the Manga is great too but I havent read it.
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Summary: One word........... bad!
Review: I love the series but the movie..... how can I put this in words, I know it sucks, big time. The only reason I'm giving this a 2 is because the art is lovely. Even though you will see alot of red.(blood)Their trying to put so much in 100 min. It's just dumb. The only thing I could get out of the stroy was that their is a battle between two sides. And some guy (not the guy on th cover) was after some sword in a girls body, and the only way to get the sword is to kill her. Did I forget to say that they are bother and sister!!! (danm, talk about faimly problems) So just don't be foold by the preety face it's a bad moive. And two more things, I rented this, and get the series it's much better.
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Summary: umm storyline?
Review: Ok the storyline [is bad] period, in order to get into the movie you have to read the extras so you can get a background check on all the characters...then it will make sense, a little. For instance a woman on the good side,fighting to save the world; fights in lingerie-her excuse? she says it keeps her in check with her roots. Doesn't make sense does it? As for the dialogue, it's kind of bad, they try to build a connection between the characters and the viewers but it doesn't work, I don't feel sorry for the characters if they die, live, and so on. It's a pity that through out this whole movie-I didn't really get into to it-I was just waiting for the action sequences-if you're all into the animation and action sequences then this is a pretty good dvd for you. What i'm really upset about is the quality of the dvd. It's encoded at a 2/mps which is really svcd quality rather than the standard 5-8/mps dvd's. you'll probably can't tell the difference on the tv but if you play it on the comp then you can tell with a little "blockiness" in the background. I've seen hong kong pirated dvd's encoded at a higher bitrate-this has to tell you something... If you want the combonation of Story plus great animation then escaflowne is for you, This series literally raised the standards of animation-look out for the movie coming out next year, it's dark,bloody and yes it has a great story line coupled with animation.
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Summary: Not great
Review: Well, let's just say that X:The Movie was a little less then hoped for. For starters...my favorite character died at the very BEGINNING! My friend got this for me as a Christmas present b/c I told him that I wanted to see it (considering that I'm a fan of X). Well, it kinda turned out to be a disappointment, but of course I already knew about the ending b/c some of my friends had already seen it. But, there was just no plot to it. Sure, Kamui comes back to Tokyo to protect Fuma and Kotori...wel, you'd think that that'd be good, but all of the characters die in the stupidest ways. I mean, Karen getting hit by a train?! Ok...The animation is all good, but I'm usually more interested in the storyline first and graphics come next. Of course, it's not like I'd never EVER watch this DVD again. It's good in it's own way, but you don't learn much about any of the characters; not even Kamui. But, X:The Movie does deserve at least 3 stars from me b/c I like X. Word of advice--do NOT watch X the series before watching the movie. The series is 10x better and I recommend it to anyone out there. <~Aiko-otaku~>
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Summary: One of my favorites......
Review: X is probably one of my favorite anime movies of all time. It's based on a manga of the same name by CLAMP. However the movie version tells a slightly different story than the as yet uncompleted manga (which is currently compiled in 10 tankabon). The shojo animation by CLAMP and the character designs by Nobuteru Yuki are absolutely beautiful and are far better than the animation in some of CLAMP's earlier OAVs (i.e. RG Veda and Tokyo Babylon). The music is also excellent with the dark and gloomy soundtrack complementing the gothic feel of X perfectly. However the movie's plot suffers from two major problems. Firstly, the plot is rather slim in comparison with the X manga, sacrificing a lot of the character interaction and backstory to fit the whole manga series onto one 90 minute video. Because of this it also suffers from the same problem as RG Veda, in that there are a few parts of the movie which are seemingly unrelated to the rest of the film. It would have been much better if X had been made into a series of OAVs instead of a single movie to preserve the manga's story in its entirety. The only other problem that I had with X was that the main character, Kamui, came off as a wimp because of his voice actor. The other characters were voiced excellently but Kamui seemed to lose a lot of resentment against his fate and because of this the feeling of angst that pervades the manga series in less evident in the movie version of X.
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Summary: The Series is better
Review: This movie is a waste of your time. I saw X in the theater and was horrified by the bad dubbing. The series is a much better pick. You get to know the characters more and the story is more interesting. Trying to cram so much info (or leaving lots out, whichever you prefer) in two hours was a waste of money and time.
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Summary: excellent
Review: I don't understand why people would say this isn't an amazing anime, i think it is one of the best out there, i saw it on Cable and I am going to buy it this weekend...the art in it is phenomenal and it doesn't get boring at all
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Summary: X - The Movie
Review: This DVD is very different than the story. Same concept just different ending. Kamui is instructed by his mother to go back to tokyo and save the city from destruction. There he meets the dragons of heaven and they have to fight off the dragons of earth to save the people of the world from death. The dragons of heaven are fighting to bring the earth back and destroy the people who have polluted it. This is a great movie. For people who think that this is just a short version of the series are wrong. The ending is different and the characters have more perosnality. I highly recommend both the movie and the series.
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