If you’ve never played any of the games before, this movie probably wouldn’t be as entertaining, and could be considered rather weird, and both badly acted and cheesy in places. ![]() The subtitles use the localised English names from the games rather than directly translating the names from the Japanese, and even took into consideration particular accents and wordplay used by the characters, such as the American accent of Lotta Hart or “That’s right, Wright” pun that occurs regularly. It somehow just seemed to suit it better that it was in Japanese, and the subtitling was so good that it didn’t matter. Before we saw the film, my friends and I were talking about how it’s probably too new to have an English dub yet but, after seeing the movie, I couldn’t imagine it with an English dub. This meant the whole thing was subtitles. Like I mentioned, the film is Japanese and thus is both set in Japan and spoken in Japanese. For the most part, it doesn’t feel like a video game movie, but a film built on its own worth. There are a few eerie, creepy sequences to go along with that, as well as a few pretty crazy and erratic ones taken from the game. You don’t just find out who and why, but how and what lead them to that. But it also means they have the time to expand further than the game did into the backstory and motivations, the emotions and tragedy that surround those cases. It means that they focus in on the cases that lend themselves best to this. This movie is made to feel like a crime drama, with smatterings of neo-noir but also comedy, and it’s pulled off brilliantly. In the games, you play the title character Phoenix and go about solving court cases and striving for truth and justice, using logic and by finding contradictions in witness statements.Īll four cases from the original first game appear in this movie, but some of them are only fleetingly seen. But if you’ve already played the games, you already know most of what’s going to happen.**Īce Attorney is a live-action Japanese film adaptation of the Japanese Capcom game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, which is the first in a rather large series. ** As usual, this review should be spoiler free. I’m a BIG fan of the video game series, so I was quite excited and looking forward to seeing what they did with it. So, a few days ago I went and saw the Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) movie with a few friends. ![]() ![]() Click on the picture to go to my source.⇈ It is an official image ripped from the games. The judge, as adorable as he was, looked and sounded half asleep most of the time and wasn't as appropriately shocked, which reduced the dramatic impact of key moments.⇈This image is not mine. The court cases really should have been fast paced and dramatic, but it was maybe 80% awkward silence as Phoenix put on his ‘concentration face’ (aka. The dialogue was on an extraordinary level of stiltedness. Half the time, it looked like Ghost Mia was the Deus ex Machina of all time because she literally explained the answers to Phoenix. A lot of the turnarounds, as much as they made sense in the game, was just so out-of-nowhere in the movie. The time the player would be puzzling over the evidence can’t be shown. Translating that into a movie is…not successful. Exploring the crime scene, talking to people, collecting evidence and trying to piece it all together during the trial - a lot of the action happens because the player is actively involved. The thing about Phoenix Wright games is that most of the fun happens in the gameplay. Gumshoe is way too young and attractive-looking though.
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