Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2014)

Amateur movie with Big budget

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Blistering performances.

I never watched the TV show or read the cartoon but I really enjoyed this. Maybe it's because I had no source material to go by. I loved the CGI. I don't understand all the negative reviews beyond the fact this it's probably due to people who are diehard fans feeling let down. The look of the film in great and I liked the story.

This one is pretty bad.The film has one disabled character in a lead position, which raised my hopes of diversity. One line of dialogue/subtitle seems to say that he'd be prime minister otherwise and that fortune doesn't favour the "ill-equipped". This may be a translation issue, but I found it pretty offensive.The film is set in a dark future at the end of mankind. Almost all of humanity's women seem to have died out already, and only a few skinny underwear models survive in a population mostly made of men. The evil disabled dude has what seems to be a giant space phallus to shoot spaceships with. Humanity's leaders only seem to seek advice or give responsibility to the good looking. This led us to wonder if this is the logical conclusion to the Zoolander universe. The plot is awful, and frankly makes no sense. I'm not going to spoil it here, but if you want to watch it, know what you're getting into. I normally love bad and cheesy sci-fi films, but this one crossed a line for me.The CGI animation is good though.

WOW! This had some very eye-popping animation. Visually, this is stunning. Unfortunately, trying to appreciate the story-line presented here just caused the blood- vessels in my head to start bursting as well. What I'm left with is an overwhelming desire to fall down and experience an epileptic seizure - to help get rid of the headache.The only complaint I have about the animation is the fact that some of the space combat scenes were repeated more than twice, as so many animation movies are prone to do. Other than that, this is one of the most visually appealing animated movies I have ever seen.I don't know what it is about Japanese writers that doesn't seem to inform them of any other audience outside of their own culture, but their sappy-happy, juvenile themes of romance and social behavior is just plain annoying to me. Okay, "annoying" doesn't quite describe it. It's downright vomit-inducing.The worst part of this movie is the fact that no matter how many times the main space ship in this movie seems to be destroyed, it's engines out of energy, the crew worked-over, and the story-line played-out to the very end - no matter how stupid it gets, nothing is more important to the climax than to insist the ship and all of its' crew sail off into the proverbial sunset. The emphasis on continuing the romance trumps all else - no matter how implausible, and no matter how much damage that does to the overall enjoyment of the plot.It would have been so much more satisfying to see this come to an end about 25 minutes sooner than it did - with a little more blood and guts to go along with the epic battle scenes. Just when you think someone has reached their end - no, there's some stupid plot twist that brings them back to life. Forget the fact that they're no longer an essential part of telling a good story - it's so much more important that everybody stay around, feel good, and stay around for more adventures to come. We MUST have a happy ending - because isn't that how epic battles always end?

Another movie that is completely destroyed by the poor quality of the chain of events. The absurd numbers of side changes the main character has, the big speech from the captain that clearly goes to another movie, the commercial poses of everybody, the plot, the plot itself is a huge waste of time. Character develop is a joke in this movie.In other hand, the visual photographic scenes are very good, that brings the necessary balance to watch this movie till the end.It seems the tried to make a change to normal workflow, by putting the main fighting scene at the middle of the movie, in an action film that is a big risk if you don't have enough plot to make a comeback. This film just fill the space after the fight with useless words, with character introduction, its a mess....I would NOT recommend this to friends