Review of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale

[Spoilers Ahead] I'd like to say that this movie left me at a loss for words, but frankly it was the complete opposite. Absolute garbage that crossed the border into absurdity. "Plot holes" don't even cover it. There were legitimately more holes than movie. Why do players physically recoil when tanking hits from virtual bosses? How can the blades of their swords interact with each other when they're not actual physical objects? They're just little handles for Christ's sake. WHY THE HELL WASN'T EIJI ARRESTED AT ANY POINT FOR MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT? How is Eiji able to bounce off walls like a bouncy ballto the point where he's basically teleporting? Don't give me that HURR DURR BUT MUH NECK ENHANCEMENT DONGLE nonsense. They literally stressed """realistic physics""" as the backdrop for the action in this movie. What was with the absolute lack of normal scrutiny and coverage that would have exposed the plan of Generic Evil Villan #3 in a matter of hours? How the hell does any of this make any economic sense? Seriously they pump in a degree of economic jargon without ever explaining how this service actually generates profit. There's no way this sort of system is economically feasible for anybody involved, be it the company that owns it or the companies that give massive discounts and free stuff to people for things that have nothing to do with drawing in customers to their stores to generate more revenue. What do the vending machine companies get from giving out free drinks? That's not going to incentivize people to buy more drinks than they already would from vending machines. And why oh why do they keep throwing the concept of code and hardware compatibility out the window to mish-mash data from separate, non-identical systems like SAO/ALO/GGO/OS?

These people praising this movie for its "high quality animation"? Braindead, every one of you. The 3DCG on plenty of the bosses was legitimately cringe-worthy for a normal tv show, let alone a high-budget movie. The fight with the 100th Floor Boss that apparently wow'd so many people? Half the time it was borderline incomprehensible. The transitions were jarring and often lacked proper flow. I thought I had accidentally hit 2x speed or something. When Asuna hopped in, I was legitimately so confused as to why Siluca was suddenly falling from like 100m up that I had to re-watch those few seconds half a dozen times. Everything else is either par-for-the-course or slightly above par for a high-budget anime movie released in 2017.

The soundtrack? Sure there were good parts. It featured kalafina so I'd be surprised if there weren't. But a bunch of it sounds like a straight up rip-off of Fate/Zero tracks (and after finding this I'm sure of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRCbJSpj9y8).

Everything else I can say has probably been said before. Kirito going from pathetic out-of-shape nerd to super saiyan athlete in a day or two, the ridiculous villain plan, the ability to read memories but not just make a simple copy of them, the complete lack of reasonable involvement from the authorities, the melodrama, the fact that nobody just takes off their Augma when they see people around them having seizures, etc.

I decided to finally watch this so I could start watching S3, but at this point I'm not even sure if I want to. I'm struggling to think of a single anime film that has irritated and insulted me this much. 2/10, saved only from a 1/10 because of the visuals and soundtrack. If the rating scale went to 0/10, I'd give it a 1 for sure.