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 of the Dark Master" tells the story of Eiji who is turned into a monster. A white haired protector tries to defend him and other humans against demons. All in all, the story is too rushed for 46 minutes. Most likely the movie would have been better if it was twice as long. There is little background information, we witness just another clash between good and bad, and the audience's interest in the characters has hardly time to develop. A drug has the power to turn people into monsters, this is hastily explained in a minute, before more heads explode. The characters are at least visually well created, good sounds, the animation is fine, but not top for the 90s (quite a lot of talking without anyone's lips moving). So, you needn't spend a sleepless night if you missed this.

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?

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.