Review of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale

This movie was a 2-hour long introduction to systems that would be used in future seasons of Sword Art Online. There was nothing TOO good about it, but it did what it had to as a movie. It had decent action, decent plot, decent scenarios. Everything in it was just decent. The animation was better than previous seasons, but that is to be expected from a movie. AR was introduced, VR was overrun, new games were experienced, and Kirito was overpowered (again). What it did do was that it mixed elements well, progressed characters decently, and introduced characters that played some role in the outcome. Whatit didn't do was deviate from its limited plot, which is largely good, but provides no chance to explore many new ideas. It played more of a role in setting up the upcoming Alicization arc than in conveying a story of its own. While respectable, there was nothing really different about it.

The movie is not bad, but only reaches the standard of "decent".