The Last Fiction

One of the true icon of the shahname is Kave, whom is popular for his actions against the injustice and cruelty. An ego that is brought the proud to the persian people. The movie is amazing and well-created and I believe it is a must-watch movie. You would not believe it until you'll watch it. The sounds, music and soundtracks are traditional persian well-known music. It could be ever better but I think they did an amazing job. We need more of these stories.

Watching the Last Fiction was an overwhelming experience. Seeing Iranian mythological characters getting some well-deserved screen time, beyond their literary and often formal context, which for some of us is not so easy to grasp, was exhilarating. The Persian Book of Kings' stories have been woven in Iranian culture, but rarely the tales and the remarkable characters of this book have been portrayed in a cinematic feature, for everyone, regardless of their literary knowledge or interest. This lighthearted adaptation of one of the most adored Persian myths, was quite captivating and left many to want to see more.

The story of this animation is better and more complete than any animation and anime I have seen. If you are interested in epic stories such as Lord of the Rings, Warcraft and Warhammer, do not miss this animation.

Well, Iranian animation industry have a long way to go. But I believe that's a good start.

I went to watch this movie with really high hopes & well it was mediocre. It SURELY does have the worth to be watched once or twice maybe; but the movie has some disappointing features; for example :

The music by Christophe Rezaei is SPECTACULAR but sometimes the sound of music was so high that we barely could hear the characters. I really hope this wouldn't be a problem in DVD or Blu-ray version.

The language was a mixture between old and modern Persian which doesn't lead to integration! Again I do hope the English version doesn't have this problem.

Finally the plot... Well as a person who grew up with "Shahnameh" stories & also stories like J.R.R Tolkien's, I really did feel that the plot was an ambiguous mixture between The Lord of the Rings ,The Tale of Kave (from Shahnameh) & even a glimpse of Hayao Miyazaki's works. Sometimes we would feel a plot hole & well I know Hoorakhsh Studio has a series of comic books (The tale of Jamshid) that will eventually lead to this animation BUT they should consider that someone with no background of Iran's literature and their comics will also watch this. It would've been great if the plot was more comprehensive.

After all I did appreciate the graphics; though it isn't perfect compared to great 2D animations like Ghibli's works and you can notice some minor mistakes sometimes during the movie BUT it's a huge leap for Iran's 2D (with a sprinkle of 3D) animation. Good job to Hoorakhsh Studio & I look forward to watch better works from them in future!