Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
domain-5
Hello!AS A MOVIE, this is simply GODAWFUL.(YES, I have seen the entire TV series, which I considered quite good overall.)This movie was slapped together with zero thought, effort, or money, and was released ONLY to GET MORE CASH. NO other reason.As far as I can tell, the first 2/3's of the movie is simply an incomprehensible mishmash of sections of the TV anime series randomly strung together.I am NOT joking!A section from the end of the TV series will be followed with a section from the beginning, then the middle, in a nonsensical way without rhyme or reason.One scene from the series, was split into two or three different parts spread out through the movie, with them trying to pretend that it was a different scene, every time! (Since I've seen the entire TV series, YES, I understood completely WHERE each scene was taken from, and what it's importance was within the TV series, BUT, the way it was edited together for the movie, made no sense whatsoever!)Robot battles would erupt with no reason, and end. A scene would occur BEFORE a required scene setting it up; which would only show up later.The last third is the first actual new stuff (Yes, yes, some die hard fan will point out that maybe a couple of minutes of new stuff was added to the first 2/3's of the movie, to which I say, so what? The extra couple of minutes added NOTHING.)Now the LAST third, the new material, was almost watchable. HOWEVER, the movie ABRUPTLY ends, right in the middle of a scene, with no resolution of any kind, NOTHING! Just BLAM!, over! (presumably because they were too cheap to add any more.)AND, since the cheapskate, lazy, tightwads that put this garbage together, completely REPEAT this NEW section IN IT'S ENTIRETY, as the beginning third of the next movie, "The End of Evangelion", you don't even need to watch that part!So the final word?Watch the complete TV series, "Neon Genesis Evangelion". (WARNING: Many people don't like the ending of the TV series "Neon Genesis Evangelion".)SKIP the incomprehensible garbage money grubbing movie "Evangelion: Death and Rebirth".THEN, watch the movie "The End of Evangelion". (WARNING: Many people don't like the ending of the movie "The End of Evangelion".)I GUARANTEE, you WON'T miss anything worth watching. You'll save yourself from watching endless, cheapskate, lazy repetition after repetition with no point whatsoever (except to make the lazy, greedy filmmakers extra money).DON'T believe the people who say that this movie is too complex to follow without having watched the TV series. That is absurd nonsense. I think they're only saying that to sucker more people into watching this garbage, along with them.Don't be suckered in!My 2¢ worth.Karl
etg1701
The Evangelion series itself may well be a true masterpiece, a rare example of a popular work that transcends its commercial origins and enters the realm of great art. Unfortunately, this film fails to really do it justice as it consists primarily of material already seen in either the television series or the film End of Evangelion. Additionally, they redubbed many of the voices for the English version, and the new voices often fall quite short of the old ones (even if they didn't necessarily live up to the Japanese ones to begin with). Touji's lines, in particular, fall spectacularly flat. On the positive side, it does introduce some new and hard to get footage interspersed with some nice musical numbers from Bach and Pachelbel.
Archon_Wing
Evangelion is a good series, but stay away from this. If you've seen the anime before, there is really nothing you can get out of this. Most of the film "death" is just recycled footage rearranged in cool ways. There are also violin solos in between "intermissions" that are very nice, but I came here to watch a psychological mecha anime, not to hear people play music. It might be useful to someone who hasn't seen the anime, but I feel they're better off watching the TV show. All that rapidly flashing text isn't going to be very helpful, and might knock seizure prone people out. "Rebirth" is something new, but it's made redundant by End of Evangelion so if you've seen the series, head to that instead. Like many before me have said watch the series first, or else it will really mess with your head! One thing that rebirth has that EoE doesn't is the ending song "Tamashi no Refrain" which is a very cool song sung by the same woman who sang "Cruel Angel's Thesis," the title song of the series. Speaking of that, you're much better off watching the series as I really love that song. For the Lazy:Pros: Violin Solos are pleasant Ending song is great Interesting way of organizing the eventsCons: You can get most of this content elsewhere Mainly recycled stuff, making you feel you got ripped offCheck the CD's out for the music, check the series for the story, and check the End of Evangelion for the ending. But don't check here, unless you are a devoted fan and MUST have everything eva-related.
alias-zero2097
We watch Neon Genesis for all this time and we get 2 discs.The first disc contains clips from old episodes (woo clip-show in movie form!).The second disc contains a highly confusing piece of art that makes you say "WTF" on more than one occasion.One such occasion Shinji is floating through space then all of a sudden he is having sexual intercourse with Eve the creator of the universe (What?!)I believe that the second disc also contains clip-shows but I didn't bother to find out as I turned it off in disgust before it was through.
