This is a movie you skip 10-15 seconds, watch for about 2 seconds, skip 10-15 seconds, watch for about 2 seconds... until the end of the movie. I finished it in about 10 minutes. That's all I feel it deserved.

I really don't understand how 20 people alredy watched the movie.

HALFMETAL ALCHEMIST

I'm not a confesed fan of live actions, and see some one at least... decent, but this could be the wort and most biggest shit someone else did....

**Music**: wrong, poor and insignificant during all the film.
**Effects:** Meh... alchemist effect have a pass, but the CGI?? what the f**k?? I hope that one was fired.
**Characters:** Hughes excellent. Tucker... bad. Mustang, meh. Hawkeye very good. Ed extremely bad. Al bad. Winry bad (except one moment at the lab no5), Lust meh, Envy f**king bad, Gluttony.... the worst from far .... the best? Alexander (Nina's dog).
**Story**: Half invented... I understand this part due the omission of some character that I don't understand why... but, ok. No problem. No Armstrong, no Bradley, no Lee, no Hoemheim, no Homunculus, no Greed.

So - it appears that some of the other commenters here didn't like this movie. I on the other hand enjoyed it. I also have never seen the anime series or movies, so I had no preconceptions about the characters or story.

The anime to live action I have enjoyed. It doesn't have a scratch on the Brotherhood series but I never expected it to. It invokes the same things I love about the anime though, the characters are true, the bond between the brothers is realised and an overarching plot that progressively becomes darker. They take liberty with the source material but lets be honest, a 2 hour 20 film could never cram 25+ hours of anime into it without sacrificing things.

In short, good fun, acting was admirable and I enjoyed it. In fact, it got me wanting to watch the original series again.

Finally, a live action anime movie that isn't horrible. No matter what, it's impossible to translate anime style mannerisms and facial expressions into a live action format so it always ends up being a bit cheesy but I felt like most of this movie was spot on. If you've seen and loved the anime, then you'll love this movie. If you haven't, don't waste your time. They are essentially covering a whole series in one movie so there's a lot they can't cover and it helps if you already know the back story. But having loved the anime, I was excited to see it come to life. Compared to every other live action I've seen, it was amazing and so much fun to see it come to life. I'm hoping for a sequel!

Yea this is fucking terrible. The casting is fine. But the acting, cgi, and the fucking awful sjw anime cartoon pandering dialogue, makes this even hard to call a movie. Its just Japanese people pretending to be anime characters. Which is just fucking cringe.

I'm unfamiliar with the source material, but as a standalone film, this was enjoyable enough. Perhaps needed a little more alchemy to make it something truly special, but it's not a waste of a couple of hours.

I sleep at the middle

Al didn't get his body yet. pity!

Agreed and not smooth enough… the scenes are forced and not very well acted…