First half of the movie is extremely boring. The story most of the time is very abrupt, as if was skipping all the time, not that it matters because the series never had a super complicated story, but still it's annoying. The character designs are what you expect from Saint Seiya, but the backgrounds and most of the animations are catastrophic. Really, this movie was a very low budged one. The music is almost nonexistent, it's as if they forgot completely that the movie should actually have some of it. When the movie hits the Icarus vs Seiya part it slowly starts to build upto the more emotive shonen Saint Seiya real deal. Suddenly everything it's decent and makes you remember what you have been following this franchise for such a long time. Simple a clean shonen it it's purest form. Still love it!. Thanks to that the movie gets a refresh and its saved from failing miserably as being the worst Saint Seiya material ever released.

Conclusion, if you love Saint Seiya, at first will be a bit slow but you will get rewarded. If you are not a fan please avoid it. If you haven't seen anything of Saint Seiya just try the Series first.