Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

SuperPupPresent★ 9

In short if you like and read the chainsaw man manga you will love this movie. Although it can be very strange at times. I highly recommend to watch it in a theater as well. The story / characters: This did not feel like a typical Shounen story, there’s a clear emphasis on character relations where the action takes the backseat for some of the movie. The writers didn’t just shove in character flashbacks on the contrary it almost seemed like characters were popping into existence. Most of the characters don’t have any backstory, giving them a sense of mystery and telling the viewer only whatthey need to know. The movie really does justice to some of the characters that were skimmed over in the manga making them seem almost real. The story isn’t as simple as fighting demons there is much more going on. The Art: It’s MAPPA so of course it’s amazing but I really think this was on another level and I am especially glad the drew out Denji in his chainsaw form. When watching the first season it seemed that most of the time he was a 3D model and it would be fine except that he wouldn’t fit in with the rest of the scene. The action scenes were much crazier, I’m not even sure how they come up with some of the stuff they did. The Sound: Honestly watching it in the theater may have helped but the movie had an amazing soundtrack. I can not put into words, but it’s like no movie I’ve seen before. When I read this arc in the manga I thought it was one of the weaker parts (possible unpopular opinion) but after watching this I want to go back and read it again it was just so good. The opening is a banger as well.

Melvin_15★ 5

Writing this review to compile my thoughts on why I felt surprisingly disappointed after leaving the theatre. I had left the cinema feeling very underwhelmed and surprisingly so - as I was expecting to at the very least, enjoy the action scenes. The first half is basically Denji and Reze going on multiple dates which is fine to establish the relationship - unfortunately there was never really any chemistry or real connection for me to truly care for them. I think the issue is I've watched hundreds of better romance sequences and the first half is just a budget romance sequence with half of the heart.And the second half was the action bits which started with a bang and kept going, and going, and going and ......you get the idea. The animation was cool but the fights started to lose any real meaning by the end as one can only take so many explosions before realizing there is never any sense of danger. A good fight sequences has to have hard hitting choreography where there is a feeling of two opponents getting into it. Watching the Reze arc film fight sequences was basically someone pressing the explosion buttons 40 times and seeing Denji reappear out of the smoke. Minor positives, it looked nice, and sounded good in IMAX at least.