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Movie Review: 9

I've been looking forward to seeing this movie for a while since I first saw the preview. Not only did the trailer look pretty interesting and original, but I loved the look of it.

After having seen the movie earlier tonight, I am still very impressed by the production design of the movie. I very much like the sort of futuristic robots as would be imagined from around the WW2 era or so. The animation was pretty top notch as well. I loved the movements they made, and how their eyes were animated. The robots were also very cool and intricately animated.

The movie as a whole however I thought was a bit disappointing. It seemed to jump into the story a little too fast, introducing characters and then taking them away too quickly before you get a sense of where the story is even going. It probably took about 1/3 of the film to even see where the whole thing was headed, and even maybe the last 15 minutes to mostly know how it was supposed to go.

It might have been me, but I didn't really feel for the characters as much as I think I should have (my sister said she did, so maybe something is wrong with me?). Even though it took a while to get to the point like I said before, it also felt just like the characters were shuffled around to hit various story points at certain times. The whole flow of it just felt weird to me.

I'll probably see it again when it is out on video, but for now I'm probably going to give it about a B-.
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