, his first feature in over 15 years, the first film from Studio Trigger, and his third collaboration with screenwriter Kazuki Nakashima, does little if anything to buck that trend. Galo Thymos, a brash, likable, and frankly very stupid young man whose life motto is, and I quote, “balls to the wall,” is the protagonist of
. Galo is a rookie firefighter of the Burning Rescue squad, a high-tech team of mech suit-clad rescue workers tasked with fighting the Mad Burnish, a terrorist organization made up of humans with destructive pyrotelekinetic abilities. In the wake of capturing Lio Fotia, the leader of Mad Burnish, Galo finds himself set on a path to discovering the origins behind the Burnish terrorists’ abilities and the shadowy malefactors who seek to exploit those powers for their own ends.
feels as though the pair have moved beyond pushing one another to greater heights and instead are resting on the laurels of those past accomplishments. It’s entertaining, for sure, but one can’t shake a slight twinge of disappointment as if they’ve seen this all before, albeit in a television format.
attempts to touch on themes of civil unrest, martial law, disaffected minority populations and the cruelty of indefinite detention, only then to promptly pack those ideas away in favor of moving on to the next explosion-laden set piece.
unabashedly leans into this type of absurdity and owns it, but at this point it just feels like the first of many, many callback references intended to compensate for the film’s narrative shortcomings, trading originality for spectacle.is a visually stunning, narratively anemic and predictable blockbuster. If this is your first brush with Imaishi and Trigger, maybe that won’t be a problem, and you’ll be dazzled by where and how far the film goes.
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