Bayonetta - Bloody Fate

With Bayo3 just being released on Nintendo Switch, I decided to replay the games and ended up watching this as well.

If you've played Bayonetta, this feels a love letter to the game that faithfully adheres to the original source material (mostly). Some creative liberties are taken (Luka's car getting trashed instead of Enzo's, hotel scene addition, etc.) which is fine, but everything from the scenes, wardrobe, character/villain design, vehicles/buildings, weapons, finisher moves, and dialogue (there's a plethora of verbatim dialogue straight from the game) are faithfully representative of original source material if not directly taken from it.

The movie is a little condensed with some original scenes missing, but mind you this is a movie based on a video game where the story is definitely not it's strong suit. Fans play the Bayonetta series, because it's historically one of if not the best hack-n-slash games series ever/currently made with top tier battle mechanics; not because of the gripping backstory. This movie does a respectable job portraying Bayonetta and her quest given how little they had to work with and how absolutely ridiculous and over-the-top the story of Bayonetta is - with that made something decently entertaining with high quality animation. While some fans argue that this film doesn't capture Bayonetta's struggle to uncover the truth and thus feel uninvested, that is simply because the viewer isn't investing 10's of hours of gameplay battling insane monsters/angels to progress through the story. You are absolutely not going to get the same feeling watching a movie comprised of cut scenes and condensed action sequences vs 20+ hours of dedicated gameplay - and that's okay.

As a fan with prior exposure to the game, I enjoyed this. If you're walking in this with zero exposure, I don't doubt you'll think, "Wow, this is rushed... Okay, that's a bit over-the-top... Psh, that's ridiculous and would never happen... Wow, this is so cheesy and cringe... Clearly a lot of fan service here... Okay, what is even going on?!" Yeah, try playing the video game, because the original source material is literally JUST like this but dialed up to 100. This movie is like a cup of strong coffee, while the game is more a central line IV of a 5-hour energy, Red-bull cocktail.

That being said, the story is mediocre, because the original story is mediocre. If you have no prior exposure, I doubt this will be highly enjoyable. But with a mediocre story (5/10), very high quality animation, and faithful representation of the source material; my honest review would be a (6/10) as someone who has played the series. With no prior exposure, I can understand a lower review score.

As a final aside to the negative comments on the English voice acting (I genuinely laughed at this comment) - those are literally all the original voice actors from the game, Bayonetta. That's how faithful and representative this adaptation is to the game. The non-English voice cast is so this movie can be enjoyed in another language without subtitles.

Hellena Taylor is literally thee Bayonetta lol

Now please, do yourself a favor and go play any of the Bayonetta games.

Witches be trippin.

Fantastic artwork, heavy on the fan-service (leave it up to you whether that's good or bad!), very good animation, very good voice acting (although the two female adult leads sound distractingly similar), confusing storyline, generic music, dreadful dialogue. What can I say, I had fun. 7/10.

I absolutely love how the story unfolds in the game. The anime? Not so much. Much of what happens is rushed through so quickly you barely have a moment to really savor it. The voice actors for the angels are laughably bad. Bayonetta while charmingly cheeky in the game is overtly sexual and soooo cheesy in the anime i want to throw up. In the game we feel for her on her quest to uncover her memories and we watch as she goes from taking everything as a joke to becoming serious and genuinely forming an attachment to "little one" and fighting to protect her. In the game Bayonetta actually feels like she might be in danger but in this anime nothing feels like a real threat. The epic ending battle in the game is not nearly as awesome in this anime. If this is your first time watching Bayonetta u will enjoy it. But if u are a direct game player than anime watcher you will be disappointed.

So here we have another "bad is good and good is evil" type of nonsense, which seems to be a prevailing subject these days.

I started watching this not knowing anything about the subject matter, but I didn't last long. It's just a bunch of clichéd, gratuitous, ridiculous tripe.

If you are a brainless clod who likes thinking "evil is cool because reasons", then this is for you. No thanks, that mess is beyond obnoxious these days.

Also, IMDb said I didn't have ten lines of text which is just as ridiculous. One can get their point across without having to write a novel, and I've seen shorter reviews than mine on here. Just another unnecessarily restrictive process IMO.

I never got around to playing the game, so I have no clue how true this 2013 animated movie is to the game or the franchise as a whole. But still, I decided to sit down and watch it.

I ended up watching a version with English language, and gathering from the Japanese cast listed on IMDb, then this was a dubbed version. Oh the horror! Words cannot begin to describe how much you should avoid English dubbed anime/manga. The English voice acting talents they had cast was just atrocious. It was some unfathomably poor voice acting talents for the project. Most of the time I was just cringing because of the one they had cast to do the English language for the Bayonetta character.

The animated was quite good and nice to look at. There was a lot of details to the scenes and lots of flashy colors. And it did help out a lot that there was almost a constant ongoing flow of action throughout the movie.

However, given the English dub and a somewhat lack of a deeper storyline, ultimately lead to this being a less than mediocre movie experience for me. And truth be told, I ended up turning it off with about 20 minutes or so left before the end. I just couldn't stand anymore of that awful dialogue and even worse delivery by whomever they had to voice the English version of Bayonetta.

Storywise, well I must say that it was sort of a flaccid experience. It was predictable and not really all that enthralling. Sure, the screen was a constant blur of action and colors, but the movie was just halting behind so badly in terms of not having a proper storyline.

I can't claim to be compelled to return to "Bayonetta: Bloody Fate" in order to finish the last 20 minutes. I simply was fed up with the questionable dialogue and delivery of aforementioned dialogue.

I suppose this 2013 animated movie will sit well with fans of the game. But for someone who is not familiar with the game, it was just not all that impressive.