Attack on Titan (2015)

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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

This movie was picked up by Toho back when the manga was first starting out. It wasn't supposed to be an adaptation of the anime. A fan of something should be open to other versions of the same story. A true Attack on Titan should at least think this movie is descent. It is NOT utter trash. This movie is a homage to the things that inspired he manga in he first place. This movie is not for the fans of the anime, it's for Kaiju movie fans.

Disclaimer: I have not read the manga nor seen the anime, so feel free to discount my opinions and continue on to other, more enlightened, reviewers. That said: this movie makes no sense what-so-ever. What's left of humanity seems to live in a walled city, protected from marauding Titans. The wall is breached by an immense deformed giant, accompanied by what appears to be a rain of meteorites. The opening in the wall is exploited by a number of smaller, but still giant, giants, who lack genitals and some, but not all, secondary sexual characteristics. These behemoths (many of whom have a 'slit-mouth', a popular Japanese horror motif) then messily devour people. Flash forward a couple of years: it has been discovered that the giants (who regenerate when damaged and were thought to be immortal) die if attacked on the nape of the neck. As this is a difficult shot to make, the humans devise a Buck Rogers-meets-Spiderman jet-powered grappling hook system (necessity is the mother…). This leads to lots of cool-drenched shots of youths flying around with samurai swords, slashing open the back of giant necks. I was doing OK up to this point but then a fat giant swallowed a 'hero', and shortly thereafter, the fat giant split open and something that looked vaguely like Eddie from Iron Maiden album covers climbed out, beat up the other giants, then spontaneously expired. Upon examination of his disintegrating corpse, the ingested hero is found alive the nape of the neck, prompting one of the characters to state that this must be why the nape-blows kill the Titans. With that elucidation, the movie comes to a close (anticipating part 2, which perhaps will explain everything). That's it in a nutshell, so if this synopsis intrigues you (and how could it not?), you'll have to watch the movie. I would not that say it's a particularly good movie, but it is picturesque and a novel way to squander a couple of hours.

From my point of view (as an avid manga reader in general, not this title only, yet not too much anime, since it's too much time consuming), the adaptation was good enough. And I mean adaptation. It is not following the manga by letter, but it's enjoyable enough. I don't quite get this 'omg it sucks' hype. There are many movies out there who fare much worse in comparison, so if we are to compare at the bigger picture level (which we should) then this movie deserves better.I didn't have high hopes for it, so maybe that's what made it more enjoyable. Yes, the effects are not that good, the acting also could be better, but overall I give it 8 stars for the effort and, well, drama.Keep in mind that I am considering both parts in this review.

Fans can make better versions of this story. Possibly the director preferred to show his "Personal" perspective of the film everything in this movie is a total crap, heck, crap is even more useful than this. This movie makes the last airbender look so nice and other live action adaptation of anime. Starting from the modern-post-apocalyptic design of the set to the script that was prepared for this movie. I think only the character of hange is the one i considered at least not an eye sore. Green screen, c'mon even youtubers can make use of the green screen better than how this production used it. The casting of the actors is really irritating, mikasa should give the vibe of a strong female character and eren is a strong willed person. How i hate the idea of how they are wearing the 3-D maneuver gear but not using it. In the manga that is a part of the training before they can even choose the department that they want to join. But they preferred to wait till mikasa and that other unnecessary person to show up and watch them kill titans using the gear and the swords. And by the way, i hate how they made mikasa hate eren then in a couple of minutes he cares about him again. Seriously, the whole production team should never make another movie involving adaptations again. And the director and the script writer should never enter the industry EVER