Review of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) by Theredsky — 05 Sep 2021
For someone who’s loved the Evangelion series, I felt this was a very satisfying ending to the series. It’s no End of Evangelion but it didn’t need to be and I’m glad it wasn’t. Besides visually, it made itself feel different from End of Eva.
There were visual references and musical references but that’s all they were to me; references. The way the two films end are drastically different and I loved both endings although I loved End of Eva’s more.
End of Eva was a much more dark and depressing film and that worked perfectly for that original series. This rebuild series ends more optimistically which works perfectly for this series. The script here is great.
It gives us a deep dive into each of our main characters psyches and what we learn about each of them is great. We see Shinji finally become the hero that he wanted to be and get the positive attention he always strived for and I loved that for this version of him.
The animation most of the time is great. It’s on par with the rest of the series although it is weird at some points. There is a final battle between the Evas that looks really weird and we get a live action face on an animated body which was really weird but other than those moments, it was good.
The music was great as always although the other movies music was better. The film has a much slower and light hearted tone for the first half and yeah I get why some people don’t like it but it worked super well for me.
It gave us time with the characters and we get to see them in a new light before we get to the finale. What they did with Rei for the first half was phenomenal. We see the new version of her finally understand the joy of life.
There is a moment though and she is written out of the rest of the film bar a scene at the end and I do wish it was handled better but I still loved what they did with her in the first half. There are some stupid moments here and there but overall, I was happy with how this rebuild series ended.
I would definitely recommend checking this out if you have watched the other movies.
This review of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) was written by Theredsky on 05 Sep 2021.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time has generally received very positive reviews.
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