Unbearable nonsense... To begin with, I love fiction, I love anime (quality), I love spaceships, so expectations for this film were high at the time. The Japanese know a lot about action, drama, original characters, unpredictable turns. So it's a big mystery to me how they managed to make a movie without it all. I watched it for 3 days. Because I fell asleep under it 2 times.
- Graphics. It must be either very believable, as in the Avatar, to be completely like life, or clearly animated, so that the eye does not look for life’s faults in the picture. But here the graphics are stuck somewhere in the middle, you're watching a movie, but people look like they shouldn't. And it soaps your eyes.
- There's no plot at all. The characters are sluggish about implementing the bomb plan, but for some reason we immediately introduce them at the end of this work (the last bomb out of 100). And in the middle, they refuse to do that. What are we looking at? There is no climax, no denouement, and this is the basis of the work, without them the film is dead.
- Instead of the plot, there is a presentation of several characters, not even their characters or stories, but purely their appearance. Yes, Kei Yuki is very beautiful, alien-elfish too, but... who are they??? Has anything been said about them? They have no biographies, no arches, no drama. Same thing about the fat guy and everyone else. Who are all these people?
- Lori nonsense. Dark matter (like any McGuffin) does not understand how it works - Harlock uses it to create a shield around the Earth, but instead kills everything living on it, it makes him immortal, and his ship is generally rebuilt in the best traditions of the "Pumping Car". Where's the logic??? Elfish near the end says goodbye to the captain and turns into matter, but after 10 minutes returns back without any explanation. In the first third of the film, Harlock jumped out of the ship without a parachute directly into a volcano, landed on his feet and did not even get hurt – at this point I made irreversible conclusions about the authors. In the middle, one ship is battling the fleet of the entire solar system and can’t even be scratched. Then the crew is captured, but captured on the ship itself, without taking them anywhere, i.e. giving them the perfect opportunity to win back the ship. And that's what happens in 5 minutes.
- That Logan and Harlock are somehow the same person at different times I realized almost immediately, so similar. Therefore, to delay the admission of this until the very end was very stupid. I can still believe that Logan and the whole team might not have noticed this, but how could Harlock, who remembers his past, not know this?? Why was he going to put himself on the board? Why didn’t you remove the eye device that caused the damage? How could he not know what Logan knows? At what point did he go back in time? Its backstory is originally told as having taken place 100 years ago in the last war, there’s simply NOTHING to put a story about time travel, but the fact remains that we have two identical men.
- A Jupiter cannon, ordered by the Council, aimed at Harlock's ship to hit Earth. But she didn't make it to Earth. Why? Because the ship left! At that moment I put my hand on my face. "Bitches, aim at Earth itself, you won't miss." But the next minute they showed where exactly the ship had departed - he ... sat down on Earth. Do you understand anything?
Over. There's no meaning, no plot, no action, no drama, no humor, a twist with the captain's personality is both predictable and schizophrenic. Solid logical holes, senseless death of characters and sluggish attempts at pseudo-philosophy. The only plus is a very beautiful ship, if it wasn't for him, I would have turned this nonsense off in the middle.