Review of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

The story was very good, giving us elements that all make sense through the watching. I still don't know how I feel about it, because the relevance for the 00 series is huge and basically it brings it to a closing, still, I felt certain things went too slow and certain things went too quickly. I wanted more character interaction and development and maybe a little less war in space. Of course Gundam is about giant robots and all that shooting, however, I felt they lost too much screen time giving us tech details (ship doors opening and closing, arriving, leaving...) and the final fightgot a bit tiring in my perception, I would rather have more character interaction and a bit less shooting, but still I'm really happy about the movie. The story gives us since the beginning this message it's going to be deep and that it will have a major impact in the series, not being just another filler like movie but a very decisive one. The art was amazing from beginning to end, the animation is very well done, the frames and the CGI is very well inserted into the conventional animation, something that sounds really hard to do considering other animes that couldn't use CGI so well. The light, the movement, the angles, the colors, everything seems to be in place, I loved it, a work of art.
The sound is beautiful during all the movie, the songs, the effects, however, I found some sound effects a bit annoying and tiring, I know the intention was to show the emergence of the enemy's attack, but because the fighting scenes were quite long, they got me a bit tired, still, the voice acting is excellent and the songs during the movie (specially during the final act) brought me so many emotions, it was beautiful.
The characters, I felt like they were enough, however, I missed more character development. Gundam 00 is an anime that succeeded at working many primary, secondary and tertiary characters at the same time thought the episodes, so it's normal fans get really interested in their particular stories, some personal questions remain, like "how did Alleluja met Celestial Being? How did he live until then?", "How was the Lockon brothers' life since their childhood? What did they work with? What did they study?", "How did Tieria came to be? What memories does he have?", as a fan I would have loved if a movie or OVA worked those characters a bit more, maybe something more slice of life.
I had a very good time watching this movie, I wasn't bored for a second.
In general, the movie is really good, it's among my favorite movies of all time for sure. The message we see at the ending is so beautiful, all the art and the music make the experience so deep and emotional. The way the final act closed is a mix of so many emotions, the solution for the final arc got me teary because of how genuine it was, of how simple the world can be, of how still there's hope for people to see through fear and bad emotions to find peace and understanding. I liked how all the moments were linked to the episodes and to what the anime promises us since the start, for sure it was a big surprise for who decided to watch Gundam 00 thinking it would be only about giant robots fighting, because it's definitely about soooo much more. I think it's a movie that can inspire people to be better.