![]() ![]() ![]() They are seen, but not nearly as much as I would’ve liked. Other missing gestures are Detective Gumshoe’s confused head scratch and Maya’s general excitability at everything. One thing I was a little disappointed by was the lack of Phoenix’s characteristic confidence and finger-pointing while delivering the line “Objection” at the top of his lungs. Having said that, many fans would say that there were some things missing. For example, the use of large holographic screens in the courtroom to announce the verdict, to match the way words just appear across the screen in-game. ![]() I was so glad to see the way they used the fact that it’s set in the(no so distant or different) future to incorporate some of the game elements that wouldn’t have fitted otherwise. However they’re done in such a way as they fit into the storyline, not detracting from the mood and power of the rest of the film. There are frequent jokes and absurdities that either reference or borrow directly from the games. And this comes down to the fact that this film pay a lot of fan-service. If you’ve never played any of the games before, this movie probably wouldn’t be as entertaining, and could be considered rather weird, and both badly acted and cheesy in places. The subtitles use the localised English names from the games rather than directly translating the names from the Japanese, and even took into consideration particular accents and wordplay used by the characters, such as the American accent of Lotta Hart or “That’s right, Wright” pun that occurs regularly. It somehow just seemed to suit it better that it was in Japanese, and the subtitling was so good that it didn’t matter. Before we saw the film, my friends and I were talking about how it’s probably too new to have an English dub yet but, after seeing the movie, I couldn’t imagine it with an English dub. This meant the whole thing was subtitles. ![]() Like I mentioned, the film is Japanese and thus is both set in Japan and spoken in Japanese. For the most part, it doesn’t feel like a video game movie, but a film built on its own worth. There are a few eerie, creepy sequences to go along with that, as well as a few pretty crazy and erratic ones taken from the game. You don’t just find out who and why, but how and what lead them to that. But it also means they have the time to expand further than the game did into the backstory and motivations, the emotions and tragedy that surround those cases. It means that they focus in on the cases that lend themselves best to this. This movie is made to feel like a crime drama, with smatterings of neo-noir but also comedy, and it’s pulled off brilliantly. In the games, you play the title character Phoenix and go about solving court cases and striving for truth and justice, using logic and by finding contradictions in witness statements.Īll four cases from the original first game appear in this movie, but some of them are only fleetingly seen. But if you’ve already played the games, you already know most of what’s going to happen.**Īce Attorney is a live-action Japanese film adaptation of the Japanese Capcom game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, which is the first in a rather large series. ** As usual, this review should be spoiler free. I’m a BIG fan of the video game series, so I was quite excited and looking forward to seeing what they did with it. So, a few days ago I went and saw the Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) movie with a few friends. Click on the picture to go to my source.⇈ It is an official image ripped from the games. ![]()
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