Review of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale

Same conflict as SAO S1 condensed into a different setting, however this time our hero starts off rock bottom before rising. The Black Swordsman Rises. Now for the villain. The villain's motivation are flawed in the sense that their very actions are insanely contracting. Claims to be at fault, claims to be willing to do anything to fulfill their objective.Committing the same misdeeds as a previous villain, the same villain that has backed SAO:OS's villain into a corner.

With the given technological setting, the only choice for the villain is to sacrifice himself for his own objective. After all they were willing to do anything, and he is the most genuine source of "data" for his motive. No, he needs to commit himself to inhumane and illegal acts that will ruin any chance for him to reach his goal. When he can go into a dark corner and sacrifice his own "data" and have an accomplice see to it his intentions are carried out at the cost of only 1 potential casualty if it can even be called that.

Far too many holes where the Villain's flawed script ruins the story. Sometimes a silent villain makes the best villain while having environmental and interactions between the main chars and victims do all the exposition. Which is certainly ascertainable for the astute viewer.

Spoiler Warning:

Can scan, extract and return "memories," but can't make copies (or record either, or there would be a record of the main victim's memories stored somewhere after the SAO incident).