Rezension von Jeremy_Urquhart

I was always interested by Owl's Castle, but never mustered up quite enough enthusiasm to watch it. I've liked but not loved much of Masahiro Shinoda's work, and I guess the fact this came late in his career and was labelled as an action movie always made it sound interesting. But then on the other hand, it seemed like most claimed it was decent at best, and with a runtime of nearly 2.5 hours, I guess it never really felt like it would be worth it.

I felt ready to eat my words for a while, at least during the first act, because Owl's Castle does begin in a promising way. I was on board and interested to see where it would go, but it ended up meandering and not really going anywhere. I wouldn't call much of it abysmal (besides some janky CGI which I don't think would've looked good in 1999 even); just a bit boring and by the numbers after a promising first few scenes.

I guess I come away a little disappointed, but also not too surprised. At least I've finally crossed it off the watchlist after years.