a5c7b9f00b In 100 years, humanity lives in fear of the Titans. A race of beasts who take the appearance of humans but are much larger and lack sexual organs. Their only purpose is to feast upon humans. However, humanity barricaded themselves in three 50-meter walls to protect themselves from the terror of the Titans.
A teenage boy named Eren Jaeger must use his special gift to fight alongside with the military to defeat the titan race. Mankind is on the brink of extinction when these man-eating monsters terrorize everybody and set to destroy the last of human civilization left in the world.
I did not even plan to watch this film when I saw ads that it was going to be shown. However, I was surprised when a lot of young people were actually very excited to see it. Apparently it was a very famous manga turned anime series. They wanted to see how the story would be translated into a film with live actors. The film was locally rated R-16 and this actually got me curiousto what could be so adult about it. As the film started, I would not have to wait too long to find out why.<br/><br/>The film is about a dystopian world when what is left of humanity has been confined inside a huge walled city. The tall concrete walls were built to protect them from huge monsters they called Titans who ate human beings for fun. That has been the status quo for 100 years until one day when one particularly gigantic Titan suddenly showed up and kicked a hole through the ancient wall. This enabled the naked bloodthirsty humanoid giants to gain entrance and ravage the town.<br/><br/>The film follows the story of three teenage friends (the rebellious Eren, the mousy Mikasa and the smart Armin)they first experienced first hand the horror of this new scourge, and two years later when they become soldiers to fight an impossible battle against the insatiable monsters. During one heated battle when he rescued a friend from certain death, Eren gets swallowed down by one Titan. However, it was also then that fortune began to favor the humans when a new, different and more powerful kind of Titan emerged whose enraged fighting was directed against the other Titans.<br/><br/>The film felt like a Japanese "Hunger Games" or "Maze Runner" with its young adult lead characters and dystopian setting. The special effects of the Titans were rather crude and unimpressive. There was perverse sense of excitement in seeing the Titans chomping down humans, but this eventually wore off after witnessing the first few bites.<br/><br/>The pace of the storytelling stalled somewhere in the middle such that the film became tiresome to watch. It was only until the action picked up again by the climactic battle in the end that the film became truly exciting. The way the main characters were portrayed was unlikeable, especially Eren and Mikasa. Something felt off about their characterizations. The story may be interesting, but the execution by director Shinji Higuchi was not entirely satisfactory.<br/><br/>My curiosity sparked, I decided to watch the original 2013 anime "Shingeki-no-Kyojin" online. The events in this first film were only in the first eight of the 25 episodes in the series. (The sequel is already set to be released by next month on Sept. 19 in Japan.) Even in the first two episodes alone, I already saw how much the filmmakers changed the way the anime told the story. I could understand why the filmmakers may changed the European setting (though the Western names for Japanese actors could be puzzling) or why they made the characters older. I also understand how it would be impossible to get all the backstory of the characters in more detail due to time constraints, but I felt they should not have totally ignored this very important aspect.<br/><br/>Eren in the film,played by Haruma Miura, was immediately introduceda cocky slacker who could not hold a job more than a few days. We do not know anything more about him at all. So the events that will happen to him in the course of the film would be totally head-scratching for the uninitiated. The painfully awkward Mikasa of the film,played by Kiku Mizuhara, is really very different from the cool and confident Mikasa of the anime. This character was really very poorly portrayed in the film, even in the second act when she was already supposed to be an elite soldier.<br/><br/>Watching the excellent anime made me even more disappointed with the film version. The film was a dreary version, from the dim color palette to the cheesy special effects. The lacking character development in the film was even more blatant when placed beside the rich back stories in the anime. The voice acting in the animated version was even more compelling and moving than the rather lame live acting in the film version. That the film even took time to inject unnecessary scenes of a sexual nature (not in the anime) felt pathetic.<br/><br/>When I initially watched the film without having seen the anime yet, I already felt the film was not able to deliver the best from what could have been a very potent story. After watching the anime, I am even more disappointed with how the film missed to capture the interesting stories of the characters. It went for the obvious audience draw – the visually gory thrill of seeing mighty Titans pulling apart or biting the head off puny humans – without developing its main characters properly. When the novelty of those grim spectacles soon passed, the characters were left without enough heart for audiences to root for in the end. 5/10.
When it comes to entertainment, the Japanese aren't so different from us Americans. A popular comic book or graphic novel is likely to become a television show or even a live action movie – or both. For example, the Japanese manga (graphic novel) series, "Attack on Titan" debuted in 2009 and became an anime TV series in 2013. Then, like adaptations of our "Twilight" or "Hunger Games" sagas, "Attack on Titan" became multiple movies, although, in this case, only two. "Attack on Titan, Part 1" (NR, 1:30) was released in Japan on August 1, 2015 and, for a limited engagement, in the United States, on September 30th. Of course, like their American counterparts, Japanese Movie Fans expect film adaptations of their favorite entertainment properties to be faithful to the source material and to be of high quality. Thus, the Japanese, like us Americans, are sometimes disappointed.<br/><br/>In this story, human civilization is surviving behind three sets of concentric cement walls that are tall enough to keep out King Kong… or Godzilla. This society exists outside of any recognizable place or time. It looks like it could be the modern world or the near future, but life behind the walls is quite primitive. It's something of a police state, run by the military, but the flags on screen don't represent any modern, real-life nation or organization. These nameless, nationless people are bound together by a shared heritage of fear – fear of the past and of a possible future that has them constantly on guard.<br/><br/>100 years in their past, a mysterious but monstrous group of giant human-like creatures inexplicability appeared and devastated civilization. These titans,they're called, look to be about the size of the aforementioned monsters. Being monsters, they wear no clothes, but they also lack genitalia (even though some of them appear to be female, based on the appearance of their chests). They all have creepy comical smiles on their faces and mostly emotionless eyes. They move slowly, but powerfully, and walk around eating people. In reality, they look like actors who are wearing body suits, are high on drugs and are being filmed in slow motionthey do to humans what the T-Rexes do in the "Jurassic Park" movies, while operating like the "walkers" in "The Walking Dead" television shows. Anyway, it's these giant, drugged-out zombie ballerinas with dinosaur DNA that people are hiding from.<br/><br/>As the movie opens those walls have worked for a century and no one alive has ever even seen a titan. The young doubt wonder titans even exist or are just a legend. Or maybe they're long gone and there is no more danger. Eren Jaeger (Haruma Miura) is one such young adult. He cajoles his girlfriend, Mikasa (Kiko Mizuhara), and his best friend, Armin (Kanata Hongo), into joining him in trying to find a way through the massive walls in order to see what's out there. The trio barely reach the wall when they're stopped by troops led by an officer named Souda (Pierre Taki) who explains that the military is about to organize a scouting party to do what Eren, Armin and Mikasa were trying to do.<br/><br/>It's about to become a moot point. An enormous titan, larger and uglier than any of the others, one that stands taller than the massive walls, kicks a hole in the wall and the "regular" Godzilla / King Kong – sized titans come traipsing through in all their frightening androgynous glory. Buildings are destroyed, army garrisons are wiped out and many, many people are eaten alive. Souda disappears, Armin and Eren are separated and Mikasa is left for dead. The survivors retreat behind the second set of walls, but the loss of the farmland just inside the outer walls, and the loss of space in general, create a famine and even worse living conditions for the remainder of civilization. It's a really bad time to be a human.<br/><br/>Eventually, a plan forms to protect what's left of the human race and regain what's been lost. The military forms a Scouting Regiment to see if the titans are still around and make an attempt to fix that people-eater-sized hole in their outer wall. Eren and Armin reunite when they both volunteer for the regiment. Under the guidance of a bumbling squad leader and with the help of a mysterious female warrior, a diverse group of raw recruits learn how to fight like a combination of Spider-Man, a ninja and a samurai. Then they load up explosives, jump into military vehicles and head out to secure their future.<br/><br/>"Attack on Titan, Part 1" is a film that Japanese critics and audiences alike love to hate, and I can see why… kind of. The Japanese have complained about the special effects, the acting and changes in some characters,compared to the manga series and the TV series. Without the same frame of reference that they have, I can only react to what I saw on screen at my local multiplex. The acting is definitely melodramatic and the special effects are indeed primitive – especially the scenes with the laughably-portrayed titans. The basic story isn't bad, but it has some plot holes big enough for a titan to walk through, especially the ending which leaves some audience members whispering a frustrated "WHAT?!" This film elicits a wide variety of reactions from those who see it. After the showing I attended (which was packed, by the way), I heard more discussion than I think I've ever heard immediately following a movie. Comments ranged from "that was the worst movie ever" to "that was pretty good." I think that if you like old-school Japanese monster movies, you may enjoy this one. Given its lack of artistic and technical merits, however, I can't recommend it. "C-"


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