I can accept some silly costuming, wigs and over the top anime acting if it’s in service of something great. Had it chosen to focus solely on the Scar stuff, with a lot of time dedicated to the tragedies of the war, then Revenge might have actually stood a chance at being a halfway decent movie. Once again, there’s a lot going here and the film doesn’t have nearly the amount of running time it needs to get it all across with any weight. While the original source didn’t really divide itself into arcs, the two main plots that are covered here are the Ishvalan warrior Scar (Arata Mackenyu)’s attack on state alchemists as retaliation for Central’s part in the Ishvalan War of Extermination, as well as his clashes with protagonists Edward and Alphonse (Ryosuke Yamada and Atom Mizuishi) and the introduction of Ling Yao (Keisuke Watanabe), May (Ron Monroe) and their search for immortality. The terribly-titled Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar is the result of that seeming inevitability. I had assumed that this was one and done, but it appears that the film’s popularity on Netflix and baffling inclusion on many “best anime adaptation” lists guaranteed a sequel would eventually come out. It was a hollow shell of its source material, recognisable only thanks to some careful costuming and a rushed, if mostly straightforward retelling of some story elements. There’s only one thing I really remember about 2017’s live action adaptation of beloved manga and anime Fullmetal Alchemist: it’s that I really didn’t like it.
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