Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (2024)

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Seeing that you're on this IMDb page, you have likely either already seen this film or have just found out about it through its relation with the anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion. That show carries a hugely polarizing reputation within the community, in no small part because of its last two episodes. NGE was a series that defied many viewers' expectations, with some claiming it to be an outright deconstruction of its genre. Finishing the story with bizarre, underwhelming animation and psychological evaluation of its characters that undercuts all narrative advancement, left almost everyone baffled. It seemed like something was missing. There had to be some kind of sequence that would re-contextualize the ending and Gainax was unable to animate it with the show's rapidly declining budget. So, naturally everyone was intrigued when they discovered this film, and believed that it would address all of those concerns. End of Evangelion is not for the faint of heart. It is not a conventional horror film per se, but it is filled some of the most grotesque and appalling visuals I have witnessed on screen, animation or otherwise. Everyone watches this movie for the first time expressed the same traumatized feelings that its characters. This film has no concern with easing the viewer into this nightmarish world. Just a few minutes in, you'll see one the movie's most deplorable acts, and it just never lets up. Yet for every gory action scene and sequences displaying the worst things humanity is capable of, there is a counter weight of hope and love for mankind that comes into focus after much examination of the film. It may seem that EoE relishes in a nihilistic worldview upon first viewing, but it all comes down to reconciling the difficulties of human emotional connection and companionship. There is phenomenal animation, directing, music, and editing that all feed in to the film's message. The Komm, süsser Tod scene has got to be the most emotional scene I've ever witnessed in film.If you have yet to watch this film, just make sure you have watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV anime beforehand. That certainly goes without saying, but otherwise this confusing film will be downright nonsensical. I would recommend watching this at night and not under the influence of anything. If you know someone who has already seen this, it would be a good idea to watch EoE with them so you can more easily unpack its narrative and themes. I like to inform people that I view this film as more of an extended ending to the show, rather than an alternative one. I and many others feel that even though the events appear completely different, the characters arrive at the same point as the show's ending.Of course, if you disliked NGE, then I would not recommend this film; it's not going to change your opinion in the slightest. For everyone who's interested, please give it a chance. You'll feel a pit in your stomach after your first viewing, but hopefully you can feel like that you have gained just a bit more insight into the story and themes. If that's true, don't hesitate to re-watch it. You'd be surprised how much this film gives you on repeat viewings.

The End of Evangelion, an alternate ending to the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion may come across as pretentious, but it perfectly captures realistic emotions with symbolic ambiguity and philosophical themes. This anime is a deconstruction of the mecha genre. That is, tropes and clichés of that genre are taken apart. In the case of End of Evangelion or Neon Genesis Evangelion, unlike a typical protagonist in a mecha series, who is brave and willing to fight in any situation, Shinji, the protagonist of Neon Genesis Evangelion is wimpy and apathetic to his task, which is a realistic reaction of most teenagers faced with a similar situation. While some dislike the emotional realism and are just looking for a feel-good story, I enjoy it because it gives a better understanding of the genre as a whole. Most of the key scenes are purposely ambiguous and littered with symbolisms or hints that point to possible answers. Honestly, I'm not good at catching symbols and analyzing, but the part of the fun in watching Neon Genesis Evangelion is trying to reach a conclusion or researching what other viewers have concluded. The infamous last line of the movie can be interpreted as "I feel sick" or "how disgusting" because of the ambiguous nature of the language, and I have yet to see a logical conclusion or reach a conclusion myself. The philosophical themes add to the psychological nature of the story, which is quite open for interpretation. I see the series as an argument against hedonism, which is the philosophy that the goal in life is to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. However, we see that Shiji chooses a world where there are both happiness and suffering instead of a world with everlasting happiness. The question that this film answers is: "would we perceive a world where there are only endless 'ups' as real and fulfilling?" Perhaps this film reveals what true happiness is. The End of Evangelion may seem like a dime-a-dozen, action mecha anime at first, but that is just a facade. This series requires heavy thinking and the pursuit of truth, whatever that may be, if it exists at all.

OKay, I am an Asuka fan and I am here to complain about Asuka and how she got pushed to the sidelines. She is my favorite character and I don't like what they did to her. It was too torturous, they ruined her eye and her Eva REALLY BADLY and Shinji just got even more hateful by going crazy, crying, and even choking her at the end (gladly, she didn't die).I do not get the hype for this. The movie is boring. Asuka is what made the series better, I would've got bored and I did skip the episodes if she wasn't in them. So, I guess I do not get this movie or maybe I have to watch the series again.So, now we got to suffer an hour of Shinji's pansy butt. Like in the series, he did get more likable towards the end when we learn about his past. I did like Misato more, too. Rei had a more decent ark, but I don't like the end of the world thing at the end. No one else I really could care much for.This movie was just creepy and violent. I was thinking that this would be a great film but it was just very over-hyped. This movie just had me screaming at the computer through. The characters are quite different, Asuka is worrying about her mother and I was wondering if like I heard, it may be because her mother's soul was there or she was just relying on her to try her best to get through this hard battle but she had a really evil face on sometimes during the battle, I understand that this type of facial expression was new for its time but it still looked too evil. Misato seemed to have been in love with Shinji, she might've been this way in the series, too. And I don't understand Rei's arc of being above the world while it was destroyed.I also did not like the new facial expressions for Asuka representing the scenes in the anime like when she wakes Shinji up, she's now more scary and hateful than she was likable and funny.I also do not like the live-action combination in this, even though it did have a good message about reality in dreams.The jazzy song at the end of the first half was okay but it was smoother than Fly Me To The Moon.Gladly, it did not have Hikari in it but it still could do better than this.

OK , this movie takes place at the 25th and 26th episodes of the series Neon Genesis Evangelion. The series is an absolute masterpiece having mixed mecha fight (that personally i am not the biggest fun but this movie is not that much about mecha fighting than the mecha psycho-synthesis itself) and psychological drama where it explains every characters psychology and giving you questions for your own existence. Now for the movie...Its f*cking great!! Some people didn't like the ending of the series cause it lead them a lot of unanswered questions(original ep. 25- 26 ) but i find it as good as the movie. The movie first part is more of the action thing and "erasing" some characters. The second part is like the original ending of the series getting deeper in shinji psychology leading to a lot answered and yet for some unanswered questions. Now thats the biggest plus of the movie! It lets you to think and find the questions you really want to by yourself , it lets the fantasy and the crisis of the watcher to criticize himself and find answers not only about the movie but for his own self. This movie is a masterpiece and i highly recommend you to see it (but first you must see at least the 24 episodes of the series to understand whats going on or else you will be lost at the movie and probably won't enjoy it as much as you would if you have watched the series).