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Akio SatsukawaCamera:
白井久男Muziek:
Shirō SagisuActeurs:
Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Kōichi Yamadera, Takehito Koyasu, Tomokazu Seki, Mika Doi, Toshihiko Seki, Yuuko Miyamura, Fumihiko Tachiki (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Fifteen years after the Antarctic blast known as the Second Impact, the world once again faces the threat of the Angels--super-powered entities with the capacity to bring about a Third Impact capable of destroying all human life. Summoned by his estranged father, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari reluctantly embraces his destiny as the pilot of the bio-engineered vessel known as "Evangelion Unit-01." Alongside fellow Eva pilots Asuka Langley and Rei Ayunami, Shinji battles against the host of invading Angels. But all is not as it seems. Amidst layers of subterfuge, and the competing agendas of secret government organizations each seeking to manipulate the children and their Evas for their own ends, Shinji, Rei and Asuka must each come to terms with their past and unearth their own identities. Told from the various perspectives of the tale's primary characters, Death & Rebirth is a composition of epic proportions. The first half of the film is an orchestrated retelling of episodes 1 through 24 of the original groundbreaking Neon Genesis Evangelion saga. Supplemented with startling new animated sequences, Death offers a unique insight into the personal worlds of the characters as conceived of by the series' director Hideki Anno. In Rebirth, the second half of the film, we see an alternate vision of episode 25 of the original series. Seele, the secret international organization behind the development of both the Evangelion project and the Human Complementation project, is concerned about the way the projects' director, Ikari Gendo, is proceeding. Convinced that Gendo is implementing his own plans, they set out to wrest control of the projects and capture Eva Unit-01. Using the nine-production model Evangelions under their command, and a force of conventional troops, Seele undertakes a full-scale invasion of Central Dogma - the operation control center beneath Tokyo-3. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Recensie (2)
A classic “previously in…” from the 1990s. Only it's not a minute or two, but endless dozens of minutes, because there's an attempt to fit eleven hours of footage into a feature-length form. It just doesn't have a coherent form. And so there's some recapitulation of characters, some battles, some main themes, jumping from episode to episode, from theme to theme, text interludes... No sense, no concept.
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When the film was on its way as a conclusion to the series more than a year after the series had ended, it became necessary to somehow remind the viewers of those twenty-six episodes. And since exclusive options like Netflix marathons did not exist in the nineties, there were occasionally memorial or compilation programs and films. However, in the case of Evangelion, it is a disservice in every sense. There is no exposition, nor introduction to the characters, and by the end a new viewer has no idea which side wins or had a chance at winning. On the other hand, a knowledgeable viewer will be annoyed that some strong moments are not given attention in the film while other scenes are prioritized that can't have even a fraction of the original impact without a proper foundation of character development. A mistake, albeit probably an inevitable one.
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