Review of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

I've seen that a lot of people don't like this movie, and personally I can understand it, some of the points are: - It's more centered in the action that it's in the psychology of the characters. And yes, I can see why people are pissed because of this. Evangelion always centered the things and dialogs in the characters more than in action. Nonetheless, just because there's more action it doesn't mean that it doesn't take some development. In this new movie, we can see a stronger bond in Kaworu and Shinji, I've heard that some people think that this bond is poorly executed because it seems like abad Fanfic work, but honestly I don't think so, it's a little more developed that it was during the original series, with new metaphorical phrases and a somewhat familiar angle from Kaworu, and the contrast between the knowledge of both characters shows you that something big has been hidden from Shinji.

Which comes to the next point.

- No need for a 14-year skip.

This might be true but if the movie developed right after the second movie, let's be honest, at some point Shinji had to know about what happened, and it would have to be double work and it would be more boring if we already know the things that are going to affect Shinji. This skip I think is a good thing because it shows us the confusion of Shinji in this new post-apocalyptic world with the same incertitude of the protagonist. Which leads us to the next point.

- Everyone's a dick to Shinji.

And while I can't completely understand it I get an idea: How would you feel if the person that send the world to the toilet just to try to save someone he loved and pretty much destroyed everything at its pace woke up not knowing what he did. And not only that, not that much caring about the world but caring only about that other person... You would think that the person is egocentric, right?

"Oh but he didn't cause the Third Impact". No, it was a Near-Third Impact, and let me tell you about the "Eye of the Storm", you see, in a natural event that has a circular effect, the "Eye of the Storm" is relatively calm, while in the exterior it's pretty much the opposite, I think this is what happened with the Near-Third Impact. And while this might not be true, remember that Gendou apparently did some other things (implied in the Kaworu's final conclusion) in order to get what he wanted, probably causing that and blaming Shinji for it so that everything would be in his plans, but this is just mere speculation.

- This movie gives you more questions than answers.

Yes, this is true, but I think this is what a good pre-movie does, it shows you the world and what happened and how things are in order to have a better conclusion. While this movie lacks a proper conclusion you could say, there's an emblematic fight between the kids, yes, all of them, at least in the Rebuild Time-line, that honestly I think it's pretty good.

- This movie doesn't tell you shit

Ok, being completely honest, when has Evangelion been explicit in things? Is really ambiguous at least in the original series and in this movie they slow-down a bit, but with the idea of Showing things to people, not Telling them what happened. And this could also be good because it lets you imagine what happened or what's going to happen next.

Look, if you don't like to be shocked by the things happening, or that things are not explained to you objectivly, you're not going to enjoy this movie. But personally, this is what I love about this movie and what I love from Evangelion, is ambigouse in a good way, and lets you form your own interpretations about it, while they're accurate to the universe. And I think this movie rejected a lot of the theoris that a lot of fans had and that's why they didn't like it.

88/100.