Review of Psycho-Pass: The Movie

Just to clarify: I am a huge fan of Psycho Pass. That is, the original series, written by Gen Urobuchi. Season 2 was a bit of a letdown but overall still enjoyable. But this? No. No excuses. This was just plain bad. Minor spoilers. Tl;dr at the bottom: Story: This was just a huge cluster of cheesy sci-fi-esque "plot twists" which you find out at the end of the film mean absolutely nothing. The so called "plot twists" themselves were about as predictable as a sunrise. The film starts out promising with an interesting hook of a terrorist plot in Tokyo which you soon find out involvesanother country in an experimental phase of integrating the Sybl system. But...that's it. Beyond the first 20 minutes is nothing but boring, bland and tasteless "plot" designed to try and make the entire situation seem a lot more complicated than it actually is, in a vain attempt to try and give the film the same depth that the original series had.

Art:
It's pretty. Nothing else really to say: the futuristic technology still looks as pretty as it did back in the original series.

Sound:
Again, nothing much to say, besides the fact that a few of the adrenaline pumping OSTs reappear in places. Aside from that, the OP was brand new, however done by the same artist who did the first two OPs, and the ED was a reused one, however one of my personal favourites.

Character:
Ugh. They messed up two of my favourite characters. The first half of this film tries to establish how strong our main heroine is, and to show just how much she's grown to when she first became an inspector. But around halfway through, she essentially becomes completely useless, serving no purpose but to convey the plot to the audience (which the audience already knows by this point, might I add). Kogami makes a reappearance and plays quite a key role in this movie. And by key role, I mean he was on the screen for a while. As for what he contributed to the film...pretty much nothing aside from a bit of fanservice and action.

Animation:
Oh my lord what happened?! I've made PowerPoint presentations with better animation than this! As a whole, the general animation was about average quality, however during particular scenes (such as a fight scene around 3/4 of the way through, or even a general talking scene around halfway through) the animation becomes extremely rough. Heck, there isn't even any animation. It's a slideshow with sound. Did they run out of money while making this?

Tl;dr
+gorgeous soundtrack
+pretty art style with cool, sci-fi backgrounds and technology present everywhere.

-sloppily written plot
-virtually no character development past the opening 20 minutes
-incredibly low animation quality

If you're a fan of Psycho Pass, I'd definitely say steer clear: it will only make you start to dislike what was such an amazing series.