She also works as a spy for a foreign queen whose ambassador died under mysterious circumstances.
#Black butler movies movie
The movie revolves around young Earl Kiyoharu Genpou who is actually the disguised daughter of a couple that owned a toy company and who was brutally assassinated. It offers an intriguing genre mixture that intertwines action sequences, fantasy passages, gothic atmosphere, period drama, science-fiction and steampunk visuals.
#Black butler movies series
Reviewed by kluseba 8 / 10 Quirky genre mixtureīlack Butler is a live-action adaptation of the manga series of the same name. BLACK BUTLER is certainly an inventive and fresh-looking film, but one I felt distinctly 'meh' about. As for the action, it's slick and heavily stylised, incorporating way too much slow motion for my liking. There's a teen/young adult feel to the whole thing that made me feel like I was too old to be watching it at times. The story is augmented with average CGI effects, neither particularly good nor particularly bad. The plot takes a long time to get going and involves the usual stereotypes about betrayals and twists and an evil megamind planning to unleash a deadly virus on the public. In addition, I found the leading characters unremarkable and unlikeable, and the efforts to depict the butler as some kind of 'cool' guy fall flat I thought he was a posturing ponce. There's a whole Faustian thing going on here (again), but the story line is so slow and mannered that I was twiddling my thumbs and waiting for something interesting to happen. It's a predictable tale about a young girl fighting crime with a demon butler at her side. I suppose this isn't a bad film per se rather, it's simply not very good. I suppose the film it most resembled for me was DEATH NOTE, another live action adaptation of a popular anime, but compared to DEATH NOTE, BLACK BUTLER is a huge disappointment.
I should point out at the outset of this review that I've never seen the anime or read the manga version of BLACK BUTLER I only watch live action movies as a rule (although I make an exception for Studio Ghibli) so I came to this completely new. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 5 / 10 Lacklustre anime adaptation And yes, the opening sequence is one of the most amazing combat scenes I have seen: If you meet a well dressed butler with a butter knife asking politely for something, you should not laugh at him. This is very "above average" drama, a crime movie and a somewhat bizarre love story. The "master" might seem spoiled and much more powerful "servant" might seem cold and cynical, but the ending is really powerful. The uneasy relationship between the "master" and "servant", that is somewhere between the love and the hate is also very interesting. The plot is somewhat familiar for the Westerners as it builds on the West culture. Even though this might seem to be bizarre, it is actually very cool. The story is actually a near future sci-fi fantasy crime movie. It might be a hard thing to swallow for some but it is worth it.
Of course, there is an incredibly complex storyline that makes the Japanese stories hard to follow for us, the plain West village folks. I have seen the Black Butler movie for the very first time and I have kinda liked it. So their fundamentalist dismissals of movies based on this argument are totally off the mark. They are not alone on this world and these movies are made for more general public who do not have encyclopedic knowledge of the respective fictive universes. To quote the Black Butler, "their opinions slightly fuel my wish for killing".
Please forget the opinions of manga fundamentalists. Reviewed by the_wolf_imdb 8 / 10 Very cool West-East near future action movie
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