The live action version of the early Anime series known as Star Blazers in this country. This film follows the story of the early anime film fairly closely and I have to give it credit it certainly is action packed.
The film run over 2 hours but it seemed like a quick 2 hours. If the crew of the Yamato isn't blasting away at the "Gamilas" fighters in Star Wars type space dogfights the crew of the Yamato is mowing them down in hand to hand laser weapon fighting. The special effects are actually pretty well done and the cast does manage to keep a straight face
This is one of those films that 12 year old boys will love. It keeps that gross kissing and love stuff to a minimum and concentrates on the action. Let's face is this film was never going to be confused with Kurosawa's Ran.
Given what this film is I was impressed by the semi downbeat ending the studio allowed the filmmakers to tack on to it. Pretty well done considering the source material is from an old cartoon series.
138 minutes.
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