Review of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

First off , I will score this movie on its own merit , and not how it compairs to the orignal series. That would be both unfair and pointless. This is the 3rd installment of the Evangelion rebuild movies. The first one was a less nuanced rendition of the first few episodes of the show. The second one was a 2 hour long fanserivce extravaganza And now this one. Right of the bat we see that we wont be getting a faithfull rendition to the show. This is ok since a rehash would be boring anyway. The new style seems way more focussed on one character and his current ordeal , rather thana multitude of characters and their past.
In a movie you dont have time or correct pacing to explore 10 characters to the extent of the show.
So they didn't.

This movie however explores the darker , psychological side of EVA , all be it with way less nuance.

The audio visual experience is top notch , better than 1.0 and way better than 2.0' style , which just became boring after 2 hours of robots and boobs.
The more lengthy dialogue heavy scenes , which take up more than half the movie are interesting and are a good change of pace from the very exiting action sequences.

The movie exhibits a bit of edgyness to shock its audience , this may be a bit cheap , but since they simply dont have time to explore all the characters and build up thension , they had very little choice.
It may be a weak spot , but it did not deter harshly from the overall experience.

The contents of the movie are completely original , nothing here is a retelling of the show.

This movie has shinji and koworu as the biggest characters , their dialogue exchanges are well written are dont suffer from the boredom and plain annoyance that 2.0's lengthy action scenes induced in me.

Characters like Rei and misato get little screentime , and when they do show , they dissapoint.
Mari at this point seems like shes here because she was in 2.0 , so she has to.

In the end , we have had a lot of facets of the original evangelion that were explored in the movies.

The only thing missing is character and backstory , 4.0 is our only hope for that.