The movie at its core was beautiful, though I was only able to get the translated part that made absolutely no sense at times. This had amazing artwork and colors that send you spiraling through a more vampiric/steampunk/futuristic/pirate feel. So much to it but, yet it kinda fits some how.

The Visual Effects were stunning but, what about the story and its animation? Well the animation was good just not great.

Things happen to fast and the characters just never feel real or believable. It does have that unstoppable anime feel that you might also find in final fantasy movies. All their movies were also visually stunning, just hard to take things on a believable scale that measure up to us humans, so at times you can feel as though their a bit too distant.

Characters are usually something you want to feel or believe in. Having some sort of connection either to hate or like them. In this movie they didn't provide that and instead just threw you in the story expecting that you could make sense of it all. Even when characters die I could feel nothing for them since their purpose in the story was so small.

In the beginning they would simply throw you a character and still they would flip from one to another, then again without slowing down just a little to get you used to the main plot of the whole film.

Which I still could not understand....

Visually - 9/10

Story - 2/10

Realism - 5/10

Pace - Roadrunner Fast (Too hard to follow and so you kinda had to say "eh" and shrug it off just so you could watch the rest of it)

Another movie that is completely destroyed by the poor quality of the chain of events. The absurd numbers of side changes the main character has, the big speech from the captain that clearly goes to another movie, the commercial poses of everybody, the plot, the plot itself is a huge waste of time. Character develop is a joke in this movie.

In other hand, the visual photographic scenes are very good, that brings the necessary balance to watch this movie till the end.

It seems the tried to make a change to normal workflow, by putting the main fighting scene at the middle of the movie, in an action film that is a big risk if you don't have enough plot to make a comeback. This film just fill the space after the fight with useless words, with character introduction, its a mess....

I would NOT recommend this to friends

The human race has spread to the stars but, having reached 500 billion, they have overpopulated the universe, so they have all decided to move back to the Earth. The problem is that the organisation in charge of everyone has decided No. However, there is this space pirate called Harlock who has his own plans.

This is based on a manga which I haven't read. It is a CGI feature, and it looks great.

And it's a muddled mess which hasn't been thought through. It's frustrating sitting through stuff which looks so good, asking yourself questions about things which are illogical or worse. Next time, get the script sorted out first.