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Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

Original title: Evangelion Shin Gekijôban: Kyu
  • 20122012
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
14 years have passed since the near third impact. Most of the world has changed except Shinji Ikari who awakens, unaged in a new and strange environment. Misato has formed a group that has is separate from Nerv. The fight is far from over but the biggest struggle might be against humans and former allies.
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14 years have passed since the near third impact. Most of the world has changed except Shinji Ikari who awakens, unaged in a new and strange environment. Misato has formed a group that is se... Read all14 years have passed since the near third impact. Most of the world has changed except Shinji Ikari who awakens, unaged in a new and strange environment. Misato has formed a group that is separate from Nerv. The fight is far from over but the biggest struggle might be against hum... Read all14 years have passed since the near third impact. Most of the world has changed except Shinji Ikari who awakens, unaged in a new and strange environment. Misato has formed a group that is separate from Nerv. The fight is far from over but the biggest struggle might be against humans and former allies.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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14,832
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    • Directors
      • Mahiro Maeda
      • Masayuki
      • Kazuya Tsurumaki
    • Writer
      • Hideaki Anno(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Megumi Ogata(voice)
      • Megumi Hayashibara(voice)
      • Yûko Miyamura(voice)
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Mahiro Maeda
      • Masayuki
      • Kazuya Tsurumaki
    • Writer
      • Hideaki Anno(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Megumi Ogata(voice)
      • Megumi Hayashibara(voice)
      • Yûko Miyamura(voice)
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    • 48User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Megumi Ogata
    Megumi Ogata
    • Shinji Ikari
    • (voice)
    Megumi Hayashibara
    Megumi Hayashibara
    • Rei Ayanami (kashou)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Yûko Miyamura
    • Asuka Langley Shikinami
    • (voice)
    Maaya Sakamoto
    Maaya Sakamoto
    • Mari Illustrious Makinami
    • (voice)
    Kotono Mitsuishi
    Kotono Mitsuishi
    • Misato Katsuragi
    • (voice)
    Akira Ishida
    Akira Ishida
    • Kaworu Nagisa
    • (voice)
    Yuriko Yamaguchi
    • Ritsuko Akagi
    • (voice)
    Fumihiko Tachiki
    Fumihiko Tachiki
    • Gendo Ikari
    • (voice)
    Motomu Kiyokawa
    • Kozo Fuyutsuki
    • (voice)
    Takehito Koyasu
    Takehito Koyasu
    • Shigeru Aoba
    • (voice)
    Hiro Yûki
    • Makoto Hyuga
    • (voice)
    Miki Nagasawa
    • Maya Ibuki
    • (voice)
    Miyuki Sawashiro
    Miyuki Sawashiro
    • Sakura Suzuhara
    • (voice)
    Akio Ôtsuka
    Akio Ôtsuka
    • Kouji Takao
    • (voice)
    Sayaka Ôhara
    • Sumire Nagara
    • (voice)
    Anri Katsu
    • Hideki Tama
    • (voice)
    Mariya Ise
    • Midori Kitakami
    • (voice)
    Mugihito
    • Keel Lorenz
    • (voice)
    • Directors
      • Mahiro Maeda
      • Masayuki
      • Kazuya Tsurumaki
    • Writer
      • Hideaki Anno(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Hideaki Anno stated after the film's completion he once again fell into a state of depression, weirdly mirroring what happened to him after the completion of the franchise.
    • Goofs
      During the scene when Rei attacks Wunder, there is a close up shot of Shinji screaming, during the close up we didn't see his collar attached to his neck, however, after a flash of explosion, the collar magically appears.

      However, this mistake only appears in the home video version.
    • Crazy credits
      Unlike the previous two movies, where the original Japanese title cards showed in the beginning or after the prologue, in 3.0/Q the title card shows up when the film runs 30 minutes of its duration.

      However, the English title card still shows up at the halfway point of the movie.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Know's Top 10s: Top 10 Piloted Mechs (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Sakura Nagashi
      Music by Hikaru Utada and Paul Carter

      Lyrics and Performance by Hikaru Utada

    User reviews48

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    3/10
    The emperor has no clothes
    With a plot full of holes like Swiss cheese, setting and setup that will confuse even the staunchest long-time fans, script on the level of a bad fan fiction, countless disrepancies and abandoned plot lines from the first two movies and characterization taking 180-degree turns every two seconds, Evangelion 3.0 is an utter mess at best, and an open insult to movie watchers at worst. It's a colossal failure as its own story, as a follow-up, as a remake and a movie in general that renders the previous two movies and all their accomplishments completely pointless.

    Almost nothing from the previous films is resolved in any meaningful way: Shinji's relationships with his friends and slowly growing confidence, Kaji's shady dealings with NERV, the Key of Nebuchadnezzar, Rei coming out of her shell, Asuka warming up to people, the growing threat of Angel attacks and much more are completely abandoned and forgotten about. In their place we get an endless barrage of new terms and plot elements which the characters talk about, but none of which are ever adequately explained or established. The first 30 minutes consist of nothing but action scenes with only the tiniest amount of context or setup, just a bunch of flashy stuff for the viewer to look at.

    The characters have taken a total nosedive. Mari, who had a strange foreboding about her in 2.0 is reduced to a mere sidekick with no meaning. Despite the 14-year gap, Asuka is still her old bratty self despite now being 28 years old. The justification for her and Mari not having aged is so ridiculous you have to wonder if the writers are actually pulling a prank. Misato is so far removed from her previous persona she might as well be an entirely new character. Rei's character actually regresses, as all her development from the previous movies is rendered nonexistent, and is never properly explained how. Gendo has become a caricature of himself. In the original series he had an enigmatic presence and there were hints of his deeper motives, but here there's nothing under the surface: he's just a cartoon villain, practically twirling his moustache and cackling "JUST AS PLANNED".

    But the change of setting is undoubtedly the thing that shoots this film in the leg and then some. So many questions rise and are never answered that the viewer is completely lost. The last 20 minutes will be spent in utter confusion as the viewer tries to grasp even the flimsiest straw of what is supposed to be going on, and why it should mean anything. Bombastic music playing over certain scenes is the only signal of something meaningful happening, but since the setting is so unestablished the viewer is just left thinking "I guess that's important because the characters act like it is, but why should I care?"

    Perhaps the only saving qualities of this film are the music and the animation, both of which are great and work to put together some rather impressive action scenes. But that makes it only so much worse when you think what other projects this clearly great amount of talent could have been used for, rather than this 90-minute fart in the audience's face. At one point Fuyutsuki, the one character who gives the only direct exposition in the film, says "'Tis a wretched role I'm playing" to himself. It's almost if he's meta talking about his character having been reduced to a useless exposition device.

    Add to all this meaningless shoutouts to the original like recycled shots from the series and Gendo's new choice of eyewear, occasional pseudo-philosophical lines which don't mean anything and some completely out of place piano playing scenes that add nothing to the story and you have an indulgent, incomprehensible, poorly told, plot less, pretentious, forced mess that doesn't even have a proper ending. Stuff explodes, characters talk about things you don't understand, Shinji sulks, some piano playing, stuff explodes again and then the movie just stops. Nothing has been achieved, learned or accomplished and you just don't care.
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    • Release date
      • November 17, 2012 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Rebuild of Evangelion: 3.0
    • Production companies
      • Gainax
      • Khara Corporation
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $174,945
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $110,825
      • Jan 12, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $60,648,662
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital EX
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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