[Dr Kain]

Gundam F91 - Such beautiful animation wasted one of the most down right boring Gundam plots ever. This movie starts off really strong with a kick ass battle where we get to see a countless number of civilains caught in the middle of and getting to see little details like bullet caps and debris flying about that you don't normally see. It brings a really nice gritty realism to the battlefield. Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from there with some of the most lackluster characters in the franchise. None of them are remotely memorable, their motivations don't make sense, and new characters keep sprouting out of nowhere as if there is a Federation Clown Car hidden off screen. Seabrook is a boring as hell protagonist and we never actually learn what motivates him to do anything. He is just there. In one scene they said he could be a Newtype, in another he is called a Newtype, and then in the next, someone tells his mom he might be a Newtype. WTF? Is he a Newtype or isn't he? WHICH IS IT?!

The Crossbone Vanguard make even less sense because we are never really told what they want and the fact that Iron Mask has his own agenda just comes out of left field in the story's last 20 minutes without any build up prior. Add on top that characters just betray the Vanguard to join the Federation without any reason to and are just accepted into the Feddy ranks without question makes this poorly paced, slow moving rush job a total mess. Oh, and then when that character dies in the next battle I'm supposed to for some reason be upset about it? Why? None of these characters gave me any reason to even give a crap. And some of their deaths don't even make sense. One guy lands in the water and he's blatantly dead? Huh? Then we have this revelation in the last 10 minutes that Iron Mask is a cyber Newtype even though nothing was ever stated before this moment. Finally, the ending takes way too long to finish and there is no actual conclusion to the Crossbone Vanguard.

I know this was originally planned for a series and changed into a movie, but come on, put some god damn forethought into the process. Instead of making a compilation film for 50 non-existent episodes, how about actually rewriting the story to be a 2 hour movie and cut out 90% of the characters that don't serve any purpose? Wow, it's so simple that even a caveman could write it.

In the end, I give this lingering waste of time a 4/10.

By the way, this was the first time I watched this movie in English and the dub was god damn terrible.