Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Hideaki Anno/Kazuya Tsurumaki/Katsuichi/Nakayama/Mahiro Maed

[Philip J. Fry]

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[Philip J. Fry]

[Philip J. Fry]

[megladon8]

I have no idea where to start with this franchise.

[Philip J. Fry]

I have no idea where to start with this franchise.

With the original show.

[Idioteque Stalker]

It's only one season, correct? I may watch it.

[Philip J. Fry]

It's only one season, correct? I may watch it.

Yes.

[Peng]

This seems ping-ponging a while between the series' ending and The End of Evangelion film, then charging its own new definite course. One big gripe -- and I don't know if this stems from having less time than series or if Anno can't quite get back to that intuitive sense of mythmaking -- is that these new films, once they diverge from the original material in You Can (Not) Redo and Thrice Upon a Time, become a bit impenetrable in Evangelion lore and mecha action logistics, which makes many of the action scenes, if always stunning, feel random at times.

The film has a huge boost in its unexpectedly extended middle section though, with a most lovely, character-oriented downtime interlude that keeps stock of where this world and its various characters are at. The accumulative psychological and emotional details of that part help give enormous weight to the final showdown, making the film's definitive conclusion to the entire Evangelion story, if not quite the masterpiece of EoE's open-ended surrealism, quite potent and moving in its own right. 8/10

[Philip J. Fry]