Review: The Sky Crawlers

Finally, I'm clearing my leave!!

On Wednesday, I made a last minute appointment to watch The Sky Crawlers. It is quite a surprise for Golden Village to get hold of this movie instead of Cathay, so Fang Qi and I thought we could watch at Tampines. Unfortunately, it is only available in 3 GV cinemas, namely Plaza Singapura, Marina Square and Vivocity.

We thought it will be a great movie since it highly advertised in the last Anime Festival, but it is not we expected. I will not say this movie is totally bad. It has a lot of emotional scenes here and there, and the characters did not really speak much in each scene. However, most of the scenes will make the audience think a lot about what will happen next, and what exactly happened before to the female lead character. The movie lasts for 2 hours, but I nearly fell asleep halfway through. Haha. The air fight was incredibly exciting though, but it has only 2 or 3 scenes in total. I thought it was a bad movie since it made me tired, but I found out this story was not bad at all towards the end. In short, I can say that this movie is sad, because all the characters in the story are trapped in a never-ending cycle. Oops, did I spoil anything for those who have not watched this movie? If you are going to watch it, be sure to stay after the credits as there will be another scene. Luckily, I made a right move to stay to watch. Almost all the audience has left except us and a few sitting beside us.

Rating: 3.5/5