Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy

They skip on the special effects, not sure how much budget they had for this movie but i have seen all 3 of them, and the special effects will make you cringe.

I guess this is why i am more a fan of the animation series and movie than the live movies.

The live movies are not all that bad, the story is good, lots of things are going on, but sometimes it's hard to get past the bad special effects.

I really hope if they do decide to remake theses movie they put more budget on the special effects and CGI to actually make it believable.

Some of the effects with monster have the bad quality of the asylum movies which is very sad.

Objectively, this film deserves a rating of 4/10, or 5/10. Without knowledge of manga/anime, it is difficult to understand what is happening on the screen. The story starts from the middle, the threads are suddenly interrupted, only to return at the end of the film (I will skip the example so as not to spoil, but it is enough to see this film to understand what I am talking about) and the characters don't have a moment to be well portrayed.

The choreography of the fights is tragic. They wave their arms like paralytics, shoot from their hands like Spiderman, and as if that wasn't enough, transmutation is shown in a primitive way, as if someone animated it in stop motion in Paint. In general, this film looks a bit like an amateur work created by fans.

So why did I give it a 6/10? I even had fun on it. It was fun to remember this story. That a completely new way of presenting this story about brotherhood and bravery is ok as a one-time experience for a fan of the series. This is nothing fantastic. It's an average film at best, trying to cram several dozen hours of an animated series into less than two hours of film. It's not hard to imagine how this film came out, since he so desperately wanted to tell the whole story of the brothers.

THE FINAL ALCHEMY is the final instalment of the FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST trilogy...and thank heavens for that! It was shot back to back with the second film, and while I didn't particularly like that or the first one, this one is astonishingly bad, complete with CGI that would look out of place in a modern video game. It's a bloated, overlong affair which mainly consists of different characters squaring up to each other and making various threats while CGI swirls and flows in the background. Some of the visuals are okay, but as a competent, coherent film this is a huge mess and has to rank as a disappointment whichever way you look at it.

This looks more like a cheaply produced television soap than a fantasy movie. Honestly, I cant this serious. Perhaps only suited for a diehard kind of niche group of fans who are into these kind of stories?

The bad; this movie has got incredibly cheap looking special effects. That's a real bummer for a fantasy movie, in which it is paramount that we, as viewers, get to believe in another fantasy world. None of that.

More bad: the actors look the part, with all sorts of weird kinda hairdos and makeup, but that's about the only thing positive that sets them apart from C-listed actors who would usually only star in television soaps.