When I read/played Fate/Stay Night my favorite chapter was undoubtable Unlimited Blade Works so I was excited to hear that it was going to be animated into a movie. However when finally watching it quickly showed that there was something very wrong. It tried to follow the story down to the smallest detail, it even kept consistent with the event CG graphics.
This is not necessarily a bad thing however Fate/Stay Night is insanely long (and boring at times) and the movie was less than two hours; it is simply not realistic to include everything in the movie. But they tried anyway and failed horribly…
The whole plot was so hurried that there rarely was time to actually explain what was going on. There was only room for the action scenes and almost nothing of the plot (and absolutely nothing of the romance aspects) were explained. Well, if you like mindless action then it might not be that bad…
There was one scene where they deviated from the original storyline, the climax of the romance aspect in the plot, and well, for good reason. However they decided to dub it over with some lame story about Shirou seeing Rin’s memories just to show the event CG graphics from the game? For God’s sake…
The visual aspect of the movie is pretty good, I always hated the graphics from the game but they did it well while keeping the original drawing style pretty well. The sound is also okay, but in the end what does it mean if the storyline is terrible?
Sorry, but this gets a 3/10 from me…