a5c7b9f00b In a world where giant humanoid Titans prey on humans, Eren joins the scouting legion to get revenge on the monsters who killed everyone in his town.
For the past 100 years, mankind has been living peacefully behind giant walls that protect them from the Titans. One day, a super huge Titan breaches the wall, lets inside a horde of Titans who killed everyone including Eren's girlfriend, and forces Eren to retreat to the inner walls. Feeling vengeful, Eren joins the scouting legion in order to wipe all Titans from the world.
Film studio usually takes liberty on interpreting a live action, but Shingeki no Kyojin strays so much it doesn't even resembles the original story. This would be acceptable if the new plot follows the same core, far from that the characters and world here feel inferior, they are almost unrecognizable if not for the cosmetic. Its biggest strength is the gore, it's a viable action with a lick of horror when it gets momentum.<br/><br/>Humanity has a grim reminder that they live in fear of Titans, or so the opening says. The film focuses on a group of youngster trying to fend off Titans with Spider-Man cosplay tool. Right from the opening act, it doesn't follow the plot of manga. To be fair, it would have been okay if it worked. I'm not a fan and changes are expected, but in this case, it ruins both the new rendition and might even offend the fans.<br/><br/>Setting takes a drastic turns, both the time and place are entirely different. Character development feels watered down. Stripped from their traits, these guys and girls look like generic anime protagonist, while in manga they at least have distinct features. This rings especially true with the lead Eren and Mikasa who only bear the same name yet without any real charm.<br/><br/>The new additional characters as well as the portrayal of existing ones are choppy at best. Probably only a few of the scenes with humans actually have the same level of humor or tone. Effects don't really capture the agile motion, although the Titans do appear menacing. They look creepy enough with all the smirk and blood, which the show used in abundance. These Titans are bleeders.<br/><br/>It's uncertain what this live action tries to accomplish, its major demographic is definitely the fans, yet the significant change will turn them off. It may appeal to general audience as an action flick, although with lesser plot it's merely passable as monster movie with slightly nifty gimmick.
As a fan of the anime series, in fact it's one of a very few anime series that I like, I was somewhat intrigued to see how a live action version would turn out. Well it seems it turned out to be utter s***. First of the soundtrack just feels weird, as if he doesn't fit what is happening on screen, bar a few actions scenes, also the um creative changes they made to the Titans was not necessary, sure they stick mostly true to the anime and manga in terms of looks, I even forgave the fact that some Titans look down right stupid given that there were Titans in the anime that had the same affect. But why on earth did they make the Titans wail and laugh, it was just unnecessary attempt to make them scary. In anime the fact the Titans barely made any sounds minus the occasional moan, snarl or roar made them absolutely terrifying. The addition of laughing just felt weird. But by far the films biggest f*** up is how it deals with its characters. Now the fact that the characters have been castes by Japanese actors even though in the anime the story is set in Europe and almost every oriental person is dead. I can look over, after all it is a Japanese productions and is westerners are guilty of the same sin. But how the hell were we meant to care about these characters, Armin in this film is the personification of a third wheel, Eren was about as relatable as the set props and Mikasa (whilst was still bad-ass) was pretty redundant. Oh yeah y'know those awesome members of the scout regiment, Cpt Levi, Erwin Smith? Not in this movie why ? Well they thought to replace the calm, cool, collective and all round bad-ass Levi with a smug and arrogant prick character who I can't even care to remember. The problem was is that they didn't include the character traits and stories that made these characters so memorable. Arwin didn't have his development from wimpy kid to tactical and brave leader, Mikasa and Erens story of how they met is thrown aside for a stupid love story. And they chuck Erens story of how he witnessed his mother get eaten by Titans for what reason, who knows. Add in horrific acting and bam, complete destruction of the characters you love. Also they chuck the cool and intriguing story for a complete bore fest of one. There are two good things. First the fight scenes are cool and the cgi is not that terrible at least not all the way through and the second is that the first initial Titan invasion of the wall was really well done and was quite chilling. But all in all this film is just a spit in the face for anyone who loves or likes the anime like I do. 3/10
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