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I was skeptical of this movie, to say the least. As a huge fan of both animes and the original manga, I doubted that Fumihiko Sori and his crew could do Hiromu Arakawa's masterpiece any kind of justice.

However, the end result is surprisingly okay. Sure, the CGI tends to be an eyesore, the acting is all over the place, and some characters aren't remotely similar to their badass manga/anime counterparts (here's lookin' at you, Riza). But on the whole, this film kind of works. The screenwriters made good choices in terms of what to adapt and how to fit it all together, and some characters (mainly Hughes, portrayed by Ryuta Sato) work really well.

Most importantly, the film has heart. I get the feeling that Fumihiko Sori and c:o genuinely cared about the adaptation, and that ain't nothin'. It's an ambitious production, though arguably an overly ambitious one.

FAR from a perfect adaptation, and nowhere near as good as the animes or manga, but it's not an insult to the original story, and not a bad way to spend two hours of your life.

I never read any of the comics or watched the Anime of "Fullmetal Alchemist", so I had no idea what I should expect from this live action rendering of the concept. I just had a little information about what it was about, so I sat down to watch it with no expectations or hopes, as I found it on Netflix.

It turns out that this movie was actually entertaining enough for what it was, although the storyline was somewhat simplistic, and there were no twists or turns along the ride.

"Fullmetal Alchemist" (aka "Hagane no renkinjutsushi") was long, painstakingly long. And they could have trimmed it down with some more intense and thorough editing, because there was a lot of stuff which wasn't really serving more than being eye-candy and filler on the screen.

The characters in the movie were adequate, although the lead role played by Ryôsuke Yamada was somewhat of a swing and a miss, because he was rigid and monotone in his performance. Yasuko Matsuyuki, playing Lust, was really perfect for the role, but it was a shame that she, as the villain, didn't have more time on the screen. Tsubasa Honda, playing Winry, was carrying a great deal of the movie, as she had to pick up where Ryôsuke Yamada came in short.

The visuals and special effects in the movie were amazing, and they carried the movie quite a long way.

An entertaining movie for sure but it was just way way too long.

Sure it tried, but it still wasn't very good. Aside from the problem that is adapting a 64 episode manga into a single movie, there are many other fundamental flaws with this movie too. One of the biggest is that Ed and Al's chemistry is completely butchered. Barely felt like there was a connection between them at all. Their fight in the abandoned factory was just painful to watch.

Trying to fit about 20 episodes worth of material might work if you knew exactly what to adapt and leave out, but this movie just doesn't do that. Important characters like Armstrong are completely left out while the drama between the brothers is regularly shown.

I am glad it worked for others, but this movie did not work for me. Highly recommend you stick to the manga and anime (FMA: Brotherhood in particluar).

So it appears this movie has been review-bombed by paid reviewers here to praise the hell out of this movie even though it's very problematic, as evidenced by the excessive downvotes to all negative reviews and upvotes to all the positive ones. What's the point of reviewing something on IMDB anymore if it's just gonna come down to this??? Sigh.....

A couple of years ago, my brother showed me an anime that revolves around two brothers Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric trying to use alchemy to get their mother by using an alchemical ritual only to end up with disastrous results. Alphonse loses his body and has his soul transferred to a suit of armor while Edward loses his leg and arm. A few years later, Edward becomes a State Alchemist working for the government to find him and Alphonse find the Philosopher's Stone, an artifact that would help them regain their bodies while performing human transmutation without a circle while discovering the truths about their world governed by the law of Equivalent Exchange, the stone itself, alchemy, their family, and evil forces using alchemy for sinister purposes. That anime was Fullmetal Alchemist.

When I watched the 2003 anime and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood with my brother, I was surprised at how beautifully written the story was and how compelling the characters and their motivations where. Their situations make you relate to them during their adventures, but not only that. It deals with deeper themes including the true meaning of family, and the difference between life and death. Nonetheless, I loved both of those shows and are now my favorites of all time. So, when a live-action film adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist was being made, I was really excited, hoping it wouldn't end being like Death Note (a USA live-action adaptation back in 2017 which disrespected the source material fans loved). Then, when it arrived on Netflix, my brother and I watched it... And sadly, it ended up being a disappointment. It's not as poor or terrible as Death Note, Dragonball Evolution, and The Last Airbender, but it lacked something that made both the manga and anime much more complex.

Let's start with the problems. Those who read the manga and watched the anime might be disappointed. I'm not going to spoil the story, but I will say this... the movie didn't include key characters that contributed to the story including Scar, Armstrong, Izumi, and Fuhrer Bradley. If the producers of the film ever make a sequel, they better bring them together. Not to mention the special effects on the Mannequin soldiers are really poor along with the other effects including the Homunculus. Also, the story fell apart. It had a decent start with an accurate depiction of the younger Edward and Alphonse using alchemy to try and bring their mother back, but the rest of the film suffers from some of the biggest problems. The writing is really weak because it had bits of the manga and place them out of order in a two hour and fourteen minute length, which results in uneven pacing that drags too long and because of that, the character development ends up lacking in comparison.

That being said, there are some good things that saved the film. The actors did a fine job capturing the personalities of Edward, Alphonse, Winry, Colonel Mustang, and the bad guys Lust, Gluttony, and Envy. The other actors who portrayed General Hakuro, Shou Tucker, and Hughes also did a fine job. The directing is actually really good. It captures the look and feel of the anime perfectly. Also, the music score is good. It's atmospheric, it has a great use of drama and action, and ends up being really powerful. And most importantly, some of the effects, including the transmutation sequences and Alphonse's metal armor, is nicely detailed and looks good in movie form. Oh, and the costumes are great and are accurate to the anime/manga counterparts. Kudos to the producers for being at least some effort.

Overall, Fullmetal Alchemist ends up being a huge disappointment. It has good intentions and is faithful to the anime/manga, but due to the weak writing and lack of character development, the movie just comes up short. My advice, if you want to see a live-action movie based on your favorite manga/anime, this film is only watchable. However, you might want to revisit the 2003 anime and Brotherhood again and remember the complexity they had. 2.5/5

This movie is quite the mixed bag which absolutely needed a bit more polish!

I usually know where I want to start with a review but this one was hard. Nothing is so horrible that it jumps out at you, but also nothing so good that it elevates the film. If you want to see a very condensed FMA in real-life form, then here it is!

As the flick condenses a huge manga and anime down into a very long feeling 2 hours, it does a commendable job hitting the key points and dropping the dead weight that isnt needed for the story. That isnt to say that those unfamiliar wont be confused, because they will be for sure! There's just too much lore to go over, and terminologies, for the movie to cover for the average audience viewer.

And those who love FMA will also feel disappointed, but again not in any one thing. The acting ranged from terrible to good, as do the sets, outfits, and actors. Everything is *HERE* but there is a lack of polish, as stated earlier, to the whole thing that will make you wish for someone to have gone over the movie for all the little details that mar this movie, so I'll start there.

The sets and outfits are all a bit *too* perfect, as in they look like stage pieces as opposed to something in a real world. Unfortunately, even when things happen which should impact these sets, such as Lust shooting her fingers out and impaling someone against the wall, there is nothing left behind. No holes, no blood, no damage, nothing at all. That pretty much bleeds into every visual aspect of this film. Its a hallow kind of substance. The few real world locations used, such as the outside of a large house, stand in stark contrast to the rest of the "clean as a whistle" aesthetic that other locations have. It all has a bit of a feeling of a live-action stage play.

The acting is all over the place as well. It is clear that the creators of the film wanted the characters to have the same quirks as their anime counterparts, but in doing so they made some characters over-act so badly that it feels out of place. They made Winry into basically an unnecessary character, there to exchange exposition in one of the numerous info dumps that happen throughout, which is a disservice to her character. Contrasting both of those is that a majority of the class is playing it VERY flat, so it makes any overacting stick out even more. The acting overall has a very 'teen flick' feel to it.

It hits story beats fine but at the same time it feels like you have been watching this movie since the beginning of time when the 60 minute mark hits. There are some major story moments that broke your heart the first time around that are still here to gut-wrench you once more.

The CGI isnt the best, but outside of Hollywood it rarely is. You get the feeling that things have the wrong weight or consistency quite frequently. Even though hes a suit of armor, Ed feels very stiff when moving as well, but he looks spot on!

There was a constantly droning "theme"? running throughout the movie, and they tried to make the strings sing at the right moments but the music felt like a blended mess of nothing that didnt help anything.

The movie gives you just enough of a taste that you'll wish it was something you stole that was still in pre-production as opposed to the final movie. Its not bad but it feels like more of a rough draft than a final release.

As a true fan of the Anime I was left a little disappointed. I wish they hadn't forced it so much. They seemed to be in such a rush to get as much of the series into one movie that they missed much and failed to hit the mark. Though the acting was the biggest distraction in some scenes. When trying to develop the characters, I felt, they kept them too animated for a live-action movie. I have seen some great live-action based anime movies to know that keeping some of the characteristics of an anime character is nice and draws the die-hard fans in, but over do it, and you are left with horrible acting. Rurouni Kenshin (or Samurai X to you American Dubbers) was a prime example of how an anime live-action is done correctly. Tackling only one story arch at a time, and with a perfect anime character to live actor blend. Maybe that's why this movie fell so short with me was because movies like Rurouni Kenshin and the Japanese Death Note (NOT NETFLIX'S) set the bar very high and I was expecting similar results, due to Fullmetal's popularity, but sadly it let me down. Now with that being said, I have seen far worse live-action based anime movies (Netflix's Death Note) to know this one is not the bottom of the barrel, but one is still scraping pretty low. I would love the opportunity to ask the creators to go back and do it again, because the series has so much to offer and with great potential.

It's gonna be difficult to fit the long and complicated story line to fit around 2 hours. They've all done their best and you can't deny all of the actors and actresses are so similar to the characters and they really did well in bringing those characters to live action. Of course, it's gonna be difficult for fans who have been so familiar with the manga and anime for many years to cope with no element of surprise that may be you feel it's lacking. I know the story line by hard too so there was not much surprises in the movie but seriously, I'm surely satisfied with the casts and cgi and really enjoy the fantasy became reality and no doubt have to give 8 stars.

Overall, its a decent movies that have many positive aspect, but the cinematography and directing are not as good as the original, pretty good acting, good cg, as any other anime adaptation it would have its story packed short, its a pretty good job for this one though, yet there's lot of good moments in anime left behind, i don't mind with japanese cast even if the anime setting in alternate universe of europe, otherwise it would've been a better portrayal of the character.

Full Metal Alchemist was one of, if not, my favorite Japanese anime series. I haven't watched a ton but I have it up there, or above, "Inuyasha," "Bleach," and "Naruto." So, needless to say I was excited to see a feature film of "Full Metal Alchemist."

I was a little put off to start. The characters in the anime speak Japanese but not a single one of them is actually Japanese (but then again that's the case with just about every Japanese anime) yet all the characters in the movie are Japanese. After I got over the initial shock of a blond Japanese man playing Edward Elric I settled in for the story.

The movie was more-or-less a recap of the entire series. Of course they had to leave a lot out but it seems they captured most of the important moments--although, I don't know if that was a good thing. The show had its run and it didn't make sense to try to recapture it in a movie. Honestly, I think they should've made an entirely different story formatted specifically for a 90-110 minute movie. This movie was around 140 minutes and still missed a lot of things.

The CGI was excellent with the transmutations and most of the characters were spot on: Al in the armor was perfect, Gluttony, Envy, and Lust were precise and even Hughes was a great replication of the anime. Even with the excellence of the CGI and the accuracy of the characters I think the movie was too long and should've gone a different direction than trying to recapture the entire series.

Bad CGI, terrible acting and even worst adaptation. Alphonse is the only more or less acceptable thing, the rest is dreadful, i don't get why they try to shove anime's movement/personalities in human's acting, the end result is an awkward and weird, and when you combine this with bad acting it is just disgraceful. I loved the anime, and this was an utter disappointment

Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Is it perfect, no far from it. I do think it's much more faithful to the source material then the live action Death Note was, like Death Note it is a very ambitious movie trying to pack a lot of story into a short amount of time. As a result, some characters are omitted and the story is condensed. To be honest, it felt like I was watching a fan-made movie with a big budget. This is not a bad thing, actually it was refreshing because it makes me believe those who worked on it really cared deeply about the original anime and did their best to show it. Other reviewer's issues with the show are right, the acting wasn't the best and I would have liked to have seen more comedy. Also elements of the story were passed over or not explained. What I did like was the homunculus, I thought they were done very well. While the story was condensed, it was still easy to follow and the movie had a good (sometimes too fast) pace.

I have to say that converting an anime into a real movie is one of the hardest things to do. But when you do you have to change also the mood and emotions cause if you import them 1:1 your protagonist will look like a douchy braggart. Facial expressions in animes are one of the most iconic things and very important sometimes but when in real life someone glances at you in a condescending and arrogant way not even the nicest person will be convincing! Whereas in an anime it's common that protagonists do that you will feel external shame if your hero does that. Let me also take as example the first 5 minutes of the movie (no spoiler). The first scenes with his mother seems so disconcerting and disconnected I dont know who approved them. You cant see the mothers face, you cant tell what they are feeling and you cant tell any emotion in this 5 minutes. It's like someone has taken every emotion out of a scene and made it suitable for a rational computer to watch and enjoy. If you will watch the scene you might understand what I mean. After all I would love to see a "all in one" anime movie for this franchise but this one here failed. It feels like a game developing company went out to create a movie from the story of Max Payne, oh wait a minute, someone really did that and we can see the outcome! Im sorry for all the FMA fans cause this anime is really good and very unique, also I bet the intentions of the movie-maker were really sincere but it's like you wish for a childhood were you eat sweets everyday but not consider that when you grew up you lost all your teeth and have diabetes stage 3! The really and only amazing thing in this movie are the special effects. They are state of the art and really well made though!

If I wanted to insult the fullmetal alchemist stories I couldn't do better than this movie. One good thing about the movie are the visuals but that's it. That's also the reason I gave this movie 2 stars instead of one.

The choice of filming locations is awful, the atmosphere completely failed, the fighting scenes bad and everything in between ridiculous. They failed Ed's character and made Al completely obsolete.

I'm not against any further live action adaption but not if they're as bad as this one is.

This movie is well worth the watch, Though i'd recommend watching the anime first. There could be some parts that could be improved though.

I had nothing to base it on - so for me, compared to Hollywood movies where the ideas seem predictable this seemed new and fresh.

I guess if you're familiar with the anime (which I only found out about coming to IMDB) then maybe the good ideas are all straight copies of that. But I dont think that matters to the majority who will not be familiar with it.

When I first started watching it - I couldn't and still cant place exactly where this is supposed to be set. I felt some theft of Harry Potter in the scenes of steam trains chugging through what looks like the English country side, there was even a British phone box at one point. All the lettering of place names were in English but the film was subtitled. So I went from expecting some weird knock off of Harry Potter and his spell casting but then found the premise of the story much more interesting.

Sometimes you want to shout at the screen - when there's impossibly long periods where heroes are confronted by an enemy and stand around not doing anything for what seems like hours. But I think that probably plays into the anime style.

So not my favourite movie ever - but definitely watchable, modern, good effects, nice interesting story line.

If you watched the movie because you are a fan then you probably expected that it was going to be bad as hell. The thing is that as a "movie" it was fine. Compared to the anime though it was shit.

The movie fails in every aspect to deliver the chills that you get from watching the anime BUT we all expected that.

It is understandable though since we do not have the technology yet (We do but it is expensive af) to make a "Good" live action movie. There are things that can be achieved in anime that you simply can't put into a movie, such things include: Facial expressions, the anime faces, the hairstyles (They look terrible IRL), the CGI for the super powers which is bad... like really bad and so on.

In order to achieve the fine perfection the anime has, the budget of the movie itself must be like insanely high. The reason is because first of all this should not be a movie but a series of maybe 20 episodes(1hour each). Cause squeezing all this content to a 2 hour movie is just not going to work.(Even 4 hours is too little I count the sequel as well). Another thing which I PERSONALLY WANT TO BE FIXED is the god damn hair, for the love of god it just looks fake af please moar realism to dat.

Anyway having to write all of the flaws is actually super boring so im going to focus on the positive things.: Nice audio.

Anyway, I really hope the one piece live action series will do great as it will have one of the biggest budgets every like 10m/episode.

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Unlike other "live action" films, this one is faithful to the the manga/anime! The visual effects are awesome. Some cast's perfomances were a bit lame, though.

Should you watch it? Yeahh! However, if you haven't read the manga or watched the anime you may find the ending not so satisfactory.

My advice: Give the anime FMA: Brotherhood a try and all the doubts on your mind will be cleared up.