Review of Psycho-Pass: The Movie

The final chapter in Gen Urobuchi's Psycho-Pass. That said, the franchise hasn't completely strayed from his original vision, just that he stepped away from his creation after Ubukata royallly goofed up on Season 2. It's in a weird area of the franchise. Close to Season 1 and 3, much better than 2, but not as good as the following Sinners of the System movies or First Inspector. Sibyl's presence outside Japan is almost completely forgotten in following seasons, so the movie can be interpreted as canon or non-canon as you prefer. In that sense, it's more like a love letter to the fans. Given that the movie takesplace outside of Sybil's Japan, it doesn't have the philosophy that season 1 was so well known for, instead, the movie sets itself up more as a political action thriller.

But if you're watching this, it's more for a nostalgia kick, so let's get to that.

Akane and Kogami are reunited! They share quite a bit of screentime together, but it honestly doesn't add up to anything meaningful here. So their reunion is nothing more than a tease to the fans.

We get to see some follow-up to the first season, as Kogami deals with the fallout of killing Makishima, manifesting in the form of a hallucination. Makishima died a physical death, but his essence is very much still in the series, continuing to affect Sibyl and occupying Kogami's mindspace, because he still has much to talk about with his philosophical equal.

Ginoza is in a much better headspace as an Enforcer - having come to terms with what happened in the prior season. He reconciles with Kogami, which might be the only meaningful development in the movie.

Animation and visuals are top tier as always, since it's under Production I.G.
Fight scenes are still unrivaled, since considerable time is spent in dojos observing martial artists.
Yugo Kanno still composes the music, so the new compositions here are also nothing short of being classical masterpieces.