Twilight of the Dark Master

The classic 90s animation feel, a pretty straight forward plot. The action scenes are a few but quite memorable. Also, one could correlate the hero's ability with this of Col. Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist, makes you wonder on the influence between the creators.

Twilight is an extremely well draw anime. It features great artwork and scenery(very reminscent of Blade Runner). Twilight does well with character development and plot advancement, even though it clocks in at only 53 mins. All in all a good solid anime.

I found out about this movie when I watch the Ninja Scroll previews on vhs, the trailer looked amazing, so I spent $20 on it on eBay and was excited to watch it.

Some positives are the sound track and the dark late 90s tone to the movie, the animation is nice and sound effects were great.

But the story was so beyond rushed the character development wasn't there like you wanted to feel for the characters but couldn't no matter how hard you tried, and the fight scenes had so much potential and almost every fight was a huge let down all rushed and one fight was literally skipped completely. The movie could've easily been 2 hours or even a two part series. The movie itself felt like a huge trailer for the actual movie.

I'd still recommend it to people for the simple fact of the potential it had.

I fell for one of the oldest, meanest tricks in the book when i ran into this title at the video store - the DVD cover is simply beautiful, and the movie summary makes the movie sounds reasonably interesting. But unfortunately, the cover seems to be one of the few good things about the movie.

While the animation and the soundtrack were great, and plot had a lot of potential, it seems that the creators of this movie didn't really bother to develop the story into the great movie that it could have been. The story is somewhat scrambled, the characters are developed badly (if at all), with the bulk of information about the main character being provided somewhere in the final battle. That is - somewhere in the last 7 minutes of this (short) movie.

In short - if you feel a burning urge to watch anime, and this is the last title on the shelf at the video store, I'd still recommend that you think twice before renting this. And if you do rent it, do yourself a favor and watch the Japanese dub, at least this way you'll get to experience the cool soundtrack in its full glory.

Interesting cyberpunk version of The Guyver, but where is the rest of the story?