russellian This movie was picked up by Toho back when the manga was first starting out. It wasn't supposed to be an adaptation of the anime. A fan of something should be open to other versions of the same story. A true Attack on Titan should at least think this movie is descent. It is NOT utter trash. This movie is a homage to the things that inspired he manga in he first place. This movie is not for the fans of the anime, it's for Kaiju movie fans.

JLRVancouver Disclaimer: I have not read the manga nor seen the anime, so feel free to discount my opinions and continue on to other, more enlightened, reviewers. That said: this movie makes no sense what-so-ever. What's left of humanity seems to live in a walled city, protected from marauding Titans. The wall is breached by an immense deformed giant, accompanied by what appears to be a rain of meteorites. The opening in the wall is exploited by a number of smaller, but still giant, giants, who lack genitals and some, but not all, secondary sexual characteristics. These behemoths (many of whom have a 'slit-mouth', a popular Japanese horror motif) then messily devour people. Flash forward a couple of years: it has been discovered that the giants (who regenerate when damaged and were thought to be immortal) die if attacked on the nape of the neck. As this is a difficult shot to make, the humans devise a Buck Rogers-meets-Spiderman jet-powered grappling hook system (necessity is the mother…). This leads to lots of cool-drenched shots of youths flying around with samurai swords, slashing open the back of giant necks. I was doing OK up to this point but then a fat giant swallowed a 'hero', and shortly thereafter, the fat giant split open and something that looked vaguely like Eddie from Iron Maiden album covers climbed out, beat up the other giants, then spontaneously expired. Upon examination of his disintegrating corpse, the ingested hero is found alive the nape of the neck, prompting one of the characters to state that this must be why the nape-blows kill the Titans. With that elucidation, the movie comes to a close (anticipating part 2, which perhaps will explain everything). That's it in a nutshell, so if this synopsis intrigues you (and how could it not?), you'll have to watch the movie. I would not that say it's a particularly good movie, but it is picturesque and a novel way to squander a couple of hours.

cavalieore Fans can make better versions of this story. Possibly the director preferred to show his "Personal" perspective of the film everything in this movie is a total crap, heck, crap is even more useful than this. This movie makes the last airbender look so nice and other live action adaptation of anime. Starting from the modern-post-apocalyptic design of the set to the script that was prepared for this movie. I think only the character of hange is the one i considered at least not an eye sore. Green screen, c'mon even youtubers can make use of the green screen better than how this production used it. The casting of the actors is really irritating, mikasa should give the vibe of a strong female character and eren is a strong willed person. How i hate the idea of how they are wearing the 3-D maneuver gear but not using it. In the manga that is a part of the training before they can even choose the department that they want to join. But they preferred to wait till mikasa and that other unnecessary person to show up and watch them kill titans using the gear and the swords. And by the way, i hate how they made mikasa hate eren then in a couple of minutes he cares about him again. Seriously, the whole production team should never make another movie involving adaptations again. And the director and the script writer should never enter the industry EVER

Charles Herold (cherold) I was blown away by the Attack on Titan anime series. It was original and almost overwhelmingly thrilling, and it offered an intriguing mystery (as with Lost, the series keeps adding to the mystery without doing much answering, and I've about given up that there's every going to be a satisfactory answer to anything).I also thought the movie was absolutely terrific, with the same level of wild excitement and horrific cruelty. And I was honestly surprised by how hostile other reviewers here are.A couple of the big criticisms of this movie are that the story has been changed and that there is a lack of character development.Honestly, I don't even remember the anime's story, for the most part. All I remember is endless, incredibly exciting battles. I had to do a search on differences to even find out what has changed, and I'm still vague on it. The locale has changed, and the names (everything is Japanese now, which seems fine to me). A character has been excised and apparently the main character's personality is different. And I don't care, because I loved the show for its thrills, not it's people. Was the character development better in the anime? Of course. They had a lot of time for character development. There wasn't a lot of that in the first few episodes, but over time they did create a few interesting characters to a greater extent than the movie. But people, the anime isn't Shakespeare, and these aren't characters for the ages. And in both the anime and the movie, all you really need is a basic sketch of the character since they'll probably be dead soon anyway. The deaths are more upsetting in the anime, but I'm okay with being a little less upset, honestly.People also complain about the special effects. I saw the movie on TV, and on TV, the special effects look decent. The incredibly overrated Hollywood action epic The Avengers certainly had better special effects, but I was still far more entertained by Titan.The movie's certainly not perfect. It lags in the middle. Characters do unrealistically stupid things (at one point two characters do something really dumb when in a real army someone would have stopped them). There is one ridiculous blood-on-the-camera-lens shot. But overall it is tremendously exciting, and for me almost as satisfying as the anime. I'm looking forward to seeing part 2.