Attack on Titan (2015)

¡Malísima! Sinceramente no voy a perder mi tiempo en ver la segunda parte. Uno de los peores errores que cometieron fue haberla querido terminar antes de que el propio manga lo hiciera, mostrándonos un final alternativo del asco.
Si querían aventurarse en realizar una tipo de producción de ese calibre, debieron considerar estudiar las posibilidades por unos cuantos años más, recaudar los recursos necesarios, y elegir mejor a los actores y a los guionistas. En definitiva, quedó como una parodia que no pude parar de burlarme de una manera despectiva cuando quisieron alterar todo, desde la historia, los personajes, la época, y como ya dije antes, hasta el mismo final.

Quizás, lo único que pueda salvarse sean los efectos especiales que no estuvieron del todo mal. Por el resto, no la recomiendo para nada.

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I watched this being familiar with the manga and anime but hardly a die hard fan so the story changes didn't bother me. The basic story-line stayed the same in the movie- humans trapped inside walls, titans attack, humans try and fight back- but deviated and shrank the story down to basically action scenes. Other than a brief intro period the movie consists of fighting, dying and gore. That to me is the movie's weakness. The emphasis on action combined with a shorter running time really hurt character development. Without building the connection between Eren, Armin, and Mikasa, there was little to root for and left me feeling disconnected from them because the plot didn't build the personal relationship well.
No complaints about the acting really. All the actors did well at portraying fear and desperation throughout the movie. My shallow side also appreciated how good both Miura Haruma and the Levi stand in Hasegawa Hiroki looked in the film.
The background music drove me crazy! It was to loud in quiet scenes and never seemed to fit with the action on screen. Very distracting overall and detracted from my enjoyment of the movie. This might be partially because of the source but still very annoying.
I might rewatch in the future but only because the source I used was very grainy so I wouldn't mind a better quality source. If you are looking for a faithful adaptation of Attack on Titan don't bother. If you want to see a fast paced kind of gory action movie this might be for you.

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