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• Amazon Sales Rank: #74080 in DVD

Customer Reviews

MORE ACTION AND EXCITEMENT THAN THE ANIME VERSION!! :D
I preffer this version than the short anime serie because I saw the animated serie and it wasn't THAT good. :(
The animation was so-so, the graphics were not so inspiring, some of the characters looked stupid, the action was NOTHING great and the storyline was a little slow.

NOW THIS ONE! is the "worth buying it". There is SLOW-MO ACTION like in the John Woo films, FAST gun-fights, BIG explotions, good acting, GREAT martial arts movements and COOL one man army swordman scene!!! ;D
If you think that the story is more important then I recomend the anime version, but if you are looking for COOL FAST action then I recomend this one.

This movie have basically the same story as the animated serie but a little summarized.

About the dvd: The picture quality is very good but when the camera goes to "close-up" there are some brieff purple lights in the picture but is not THAT annoying, besides, it's only at the begining of the movie, the last best action scenes doesn't have that. The sound hears good but is low volume, so you have to turn up your tv volume to hear the sound much clearer.

Adios.

Should be better
I enjoyed the 5 graphic novels of Crying Freeman by Dark Horse. The animated movies were good but not as good as the graphic novels. This movie compared to the animated version and graphic novels is a disappointment. It is disjointed and the actors left much to be desired. This movie is in English with Chinese subtitles. But there are portions of the movie were Chinese (Cantonese dialect) or Japanese is spoken only that was not background chatter, but dialogue that I think was important to the storyline and flow of the movie. These conversations leaves the movie viewer clueless unless he/she can understand or read Chinese or Japanese. The important scene where Freeman falls in love with Emu is weak and not convincing. The dialogue strayed from the graphic novel at that scene and it was disappointing because the script replacing it was poor. The acting in that scene was also disappointing. As a stand alone movie, I rate this movie no more than three stars. As the first Crying Freeman movie, it is a disappointment.

Why?
When will you have more copies Amazon? The other ones will not play in my DVD player. I hope you have more soon. I enjoyed this movie very much. Anime fans will love it. Hurry up Amazon and get some more quick!