Gantz: O

Plot synopsis:
While fighting invading monsters, Kei Kurono rescues his friend, Reika. Though she protests, he faces off against the monsters' leader, dying just after killing it. Reika and her surviving teammates are teleported back to their base. Elsewhere, Masaru Kato dies after attempting to save someone from a knife-wielding maniac in a subway (who seems to be indiscriminately killing innocent bystanders). He wakes up in a small room with Reika and her teammates: Yoshikazu Suzuki, an old man; Joichiro Nishi, a surly teenager; and an angry, unidentified man. Suzuki explains that, in the past, they have each died and woken in the room. They are subsequently forced to fight against waves of monsters. Before Suzuki can explain further, a black orb identified as "Gantz" announces that their next mission is about to begin. The angry man defiantly refuses to participate and is killed by Nishi, who reasons that the rebelling man will be nothing but a liability.
After putting on skintight black suits (which contain advanced tech), the group is teleported to Osaka; Suzuki, confused, says they are usually sent to Tokyo. When Kato presses for more answers, Nishi threatens to kill him. Suzuki quickly explains in more detail: the team is given two hours to kill every monster in the city; if they fail, the team members die. After Kato and his team meet another team, some of whom have exotic weapons, Suzuki tells him that players accrue points for killing monsters. Anyone who scores 100 points can choose from three bonuses: upgraded weaponry, resurrection of a fallen teammate, or freedom from the "game". Nishi turns invisible to stealthily wait for high point monsters. The others watch as the better-equipped team slaughters monsters. Reika and Suzuki urge Kato to not engage the monsters needlessly, but he insists that they rescue the city's scared citizens; they refuse, saying they are too weak.
Amused to find Kato fighting monsters alone, Anzu Yamasaki (a member of the Osaka team), follows him, trying to figure out why he is risking his life. Kato says he is a student who has been living alone with his younger brother since the death of their parents. Yamasaki reveals that she has a young son and says they have something in common: both must stay alive to help someone who depends on them. Although Yamasaki initially believes that Kato is just showing off, she eventually concludes that he genuinely desires to help others and joins him. After killing a monster that was menacing several helpless survivors (an elderly couple and a young boy), Yamasaki proposes that, if she and Kato survive, they begin living together with her son and Kato's brother. Although surprised, Kato agrees (somewhat reluctantly), and they rejoin the others.
A gigantic monster rises from the water, and an equally large mecha appears, piloted by seven-time winner Hachiro Oka. Oka kills the monster but loses his mecha. Two other multiple winners from the Osaka team die fighting when they become overconfident. Oka, wounded and fighting without his best weapons, engages the leader, who appears first as an old man, a naked woman, and finally a skull-headed demon. Oka appears to win but tells them it is not dead; instead, it must be taken by surprise to be killed, and his current weapons make it too dangerous. After rising, the demon easily defeats Suzuki, Reika, Yamasaki, Nishi, and Kato. Suzuki is heavily wounded when he sacrifices himself to save Kato, and Nishi's arm is ripped off. Instead of killing them, though, it goes after Oka, who has left to retrieve better weapons.
Knowing someone must defeat the demon soon and Oka may be too wounded, Kato acts as a decoy in a trap. The demon, having killed Oka, attacks Kato, and the others shoot it from a distance. Before dying, the demon kills Yamasaki and maims Kato. Kato collapses beside Yamasaki's body, and the others assume him dead. Reika, Suzuki, and Nishi are surprised when he rejoins them at the base, where all are fully healed. When the scores are tallied up, Kato has 100 points; Reika and Suzuki encourage him to choose his freedom, but he resurrects Yamasaki. After Gantz allows them to leave, Kato races to return to his brother. The others discuss how Kato previously won the game, had his memory wiped with his freedom, and has somehow returned, unchanged from his previous willingness to sacrifice himself for others.

Tags: violence

Review:
If you like Gantz, you'll LOVE this movie..
When i knew about a new Gantz Film coming this year I was very excited but, at the same time, I didn't think that we could watch this film on theatres in Argentina.
The Osaka mission is know as one of the best of the manga and it was a really clever choice to pick it up and make a movie about it.
Yeah, there're some missing characters, but this movie was so good, so entertaining, that you will forget that in seconds..
Impressive visuals n lots of monster action..
As for the Gantz, without having any exposure to its video game, manga, anime n action films, i was pleasantly surprised n happy to see this movie on a dvd.
The movie is filled with style, awesome action sequences n terrific monster designs.
After watching this movie, i have become a fan of the Gantz series n looking forward to its sequels.
I have nothing to add to the other 10 out of 10 reviews for this amazing movie, except to say that the backstory doesn't matter.
Impressive animation and a rather good adaptation overall.
Well, that might be a bold statement since Gantz: O doesn't have the depth of these two, but it's a rather good adaptation of a segment of Hiroya Oku's manga, quite entertaining, and very, very well made.
The motion capture is impressive, the best I've seen so far in this kind of production and leaves far behind the various declensions of Final Fantasy, Halo, or resident Evil (the animated ones).
The facial expressions are perfect, down to the glittering eyes that gives these animated characters the sparkle of life that's often missing in Asian CGI animation.
Otherwise, just an advice, don't look away or be distracted in the five last minutes or you might be baffled by what's going on (I had to watch the end twice because someone talked to me at the worst moment and I missed the one sentence that was the key to it all)..
Amazing, a must for anime and Gantz fans.
Everything fits in this movie, they didn't overreached trying to tell the whole history, the whole manga; they just put a saga and run with it, telling the mechanics of the game on the run.
As with other reviewers here I came across this little gem browsing Netflix.I guess Gantz is pretty big in Japan for them to be able to make something this amazing.
Any mature anime fan will love this regardless of knowing the backstory.The main reason I'm "reviewing" this title is because I see many people complaining about the laughable dialogue.
Gantz:O It's completely based on Osaka arc (not present in anime, just in Manga), this is one of the best arc of Gantz and one of the most incredible battles ever to come, the film takes a few small liberties just for Putting some characters in a simpler context of comprehension, is an extreme homage to the fans who were not disappointed at all and an excellent inter-training for anyone who has never heard of gantz, since it brings a film with moments of tension and unparalleled quality visual..
Far better than 2 Live Action Movies that we've got.If you are new to Gantz, this will be your animated movie that had thrill, action, noir and horror in balanced setup.
Its just complete menu i say.For animated movie, the colors, graphs, movement, detail, expression and gesture is almost perfect.
I was surfing Netflix and came across this title and decided to watch it because the stills looked good and it had a good rating.
Great movie, laughable dialogue..
Gantz:0 had the potential to be an excellent movie, but just like other animé with amazing CGI - it fell flat, over and rolled over into laughing zone.
definitely not the best, but the animation alone, combat scenes, story-boarding was excellent..
:this is less of a review and more of just a ramble of what was in my head at the time I finished watching: As I would consider myself more a member of the "uninitiated" as far as anime is concerned, I really don't.
I am a gantz old fan and i can say this really feel like gantz, and the animation its awesome..
Most of the dialogue is just borderline abominable and made some parts of this movie really hard to watch.
Superfans will most likely eat it up and praise it to high heavens, so if you're not that much in to anime steer clear of this one and maybe watch some of the fight scenes on Youtube or something.Best bit: The little old manster Worst part: Any interaction between Kato and Anzu..
I never even heard of Gantz before, but it didn't take me long to understand the basic premise and rules of "the game" even though at the end I still had more questions then answers, but I'm fine with that, I don't need to have everything spoon fed and tied up with a nice bow.Sure the dubbing/translations are bad..
The story itself does not make too much sense, but compared with the action movies the West can produce this one is hyper intelligent.The good part: it is action.
Lately I keep watching action movies.
The animation is very good.The ugly: women are still at the emotional level of a mature male who buys manga, meaning somewhere between 6 and 11 with a strong emphasis on sex.
This is an action movie with an anime fan in mind; it starts at 10 and rarely lets up.
The animation, the character designs, the motion capture; everything culminates into such a thoroughly engrossing experience, that I did not want to blink in case I might miss something.
As a fan of movies, it is impressive.
As a fan of anime/manga, it is impressive.
One of the best movies I have seen so far this year, it deserves to be seen by anyone who just appreciates a good time.
The actions scenes are really good and the science fiction story holds you from the very beginning.
Great anime quality, director ship and sticking close to the manga.
Gantz was my first and favourite manga i read, I've watched the TV show and was disappointed it discontinued early in.after losing hope that Gantz was finished a few years back i stumbled across this movie per chance and could not believe how much effort was put in.It has truly rekindled my flame for Gantz and would love to throw money for a Gantz:1, Gantz:2, Gantz:3 etc of this quality.I'd even recommend it for first time viewers not knowledgeable of the manga.
Great animation - particularly of human action movements and camera work.
The screen suddenly got so busy I didn't know which where to look - a bit like Transformers, at times there's so much going on you lose any real focal point.
The squeaky, repetitive, persistent dialogue from Anzu, and her (combined with Reika) constant failure to pull the trigger on ANY weapon at ANY time (apart from the end) will have you ripping your hair out.The absolute lack of any character development will leave you wondering who these people were.
Like a certain Video game, Pretty to look at, but painful story.
That's Gantz in a nutshell, only it's a game you'd never want to play because the weapons are illogical, frustrating garbage, and because it would be a real nightmare.As others have said, the cgi animation is on a different level and is stunning in its execution.
Creative camera angles and use of lighting make the environments and characters pop with a distinct style that is reminiscent of the final fantasy movies, only with more demons and a lot more blood; buckets of blood.The story centres around a young man who dies, only to find himself resurrected in a deadly game where he and others are pitted against demons, given the glimmer of hope that he can be reunited with his brother if he does well.
Unfortunately, the game itself becomes more interesting than any of the characters themselves, and the viewer learns quickly not to be attached to most of them in the process.Despite having a story that is simplistic, it is not that which detracts most from the experience, but the tedious delay with which most elements of the action suffer.
The heroic and emotional death of one character becomes comedy as he succeeds in killing his opponent, but only seconds after he has already died.Taking into account the style and visual power Gantz brings to the table, the film comes out ahead as a worthy addition to the Gantz anime family.
It's a story that is easy to forget, but an experience that will likely make an impression, even if only for its bizarre renditions of Japanese demons..
I was recommended that I watched "Gantz: O" since it was readily available on Netflix some time ago.
So I did as recommended, even without having any prior knowledge of the "Gantz" series and franchise.One word is really all that is needed to summarize "Gantz: O", and that word is: wow!The storyline was really good, and the entire movie had a really interesting concept to it.
Just as it is packed with some really cool and great-looking CGI, which really helped bring the movie to life.
Visually, then "Gantz: O" was astounding to behold, no doubt about that.The characters in the movie were quite interesting and fleshed out nicely on the screen and throughout the storyline.
And characters are very important in a movie.
The voice acting talents is a make or break deal for a movie such as this."Gantz: O" is well worth watching if you have the chance.
I was more than genuinely entertained with the movie, and am glad that I listened to the recommendation and sat down to watch it..
Just the best animated movie ever!!.
The animation is the best I´ve ever seem in my life (At the very beginning I even thought for a minute that Reika was a real woman).
I´ve seem the anime and read the manga and the story on this movie is pretty close to the manga.
But unfortunately the script is very simplistic, which makes the film extremely shocking from a visual point of view, but little impact in the story, which ends up reflecting on the characters, and we have an incredible cyberpunk here, but as I said, If the script and the characters were better worked.
Fantastic director Yasushi Kawamura, I do not know him, but this guy has to stand out and make other movies, damn, fantastic visual creative animation.And this end, really made me curious, what the protagonist witnessed..
Let's make this immediately very very clear: the score comes all from Gantz fans, and if you don't know what a "Gantz" is, you are in the really wrong place.If you didn't read the anime, the movie is an abominable mess of pitch-perfect CGI, atrocious human interactions and unintelligible plot, and if you want to get the most out of it, you'd probably better watching it with no audio and skipping all parts where the characters are moving their lips.
you are a Gantz fan, and you read and loved the manga: then the dialogues and characterizations will remain atrocious (and very Japanese), but you'll be in for the best adaptation of the source material you can ask a Japanese director: lay back and enjoy the ride!The CGI is astonishing.
I still can't believe I've just watched a rendering and not actual footage, and the movie is packed with breath-taking action.
Then the characters speak.You know when you watch a Bollywood movie and, at some point, the hero and the bad guy start to dance together for what seems like an eternity, where they were about to kill each other the moment before?
Is this a spoiler?).Mind you, I'm not judging: God only knows how our movies look to a Japanese audience, but if you want to watch this, be prepared that 80% of the movie is awesome action, and the remaining 20% is cringe-worthy dialogues (by Western standards, at least).Worth watching for fans, worth scanning for everyone else..
Outstanding Graphics, Everything Else Sucks Really Bad. Without the stunning graphics, I would rate this 2/10.Characters are infuriatingly stupid, so much so that I began rooting for the monsters to kill them all.
Finished the new cgi film Gantz.0.
Honestly the movie was all about the in your face action and gore.
This is one of those movies that I have seen on Netflix, thought it looked interesting, and would then scroll by.
Some of the action scenes happen so fast and in a dark setting, so I had to play around with the picture mode on my TV to get it to look the right way.
If that is the case then I can confirm that watching, really any movie, outside of it's original language you are going to drasticaly miss out on key dialogue inflections.
I may have to go back and watch it again sometime because the end of the movie left me a little confused and feeling like I may have missed out on some hints throughout.
As I said, great action/fantacy film that is well worth your time to watch!.
A must to watch to action fans.
Best adaptation of Gantz manga so far.
Gantz: o has an amazing animation sometimes feels real, but the plot of the film is a bit confusing for new gantz viewers and for those who have read or seen the anime with the same name could feel out of place the story due to the changes made to convert gantz as a standalone film, compared to the original work in the film the protagonist lacks an objective and this makes it difficult to sympathize with him..
Don't watch this movie.
This movie is very well animated, however it has no other redeeming qualities at all.
The dubbing is terrible, all the characters are just anime stereotypes, every scene is beyond over-dramatic, and there is an underling misogynistic tone that makes this movie completely unbearable.
If you like anime I cannot recommend this, if you like to watch bad movies because you think they're funny, I cannot recommend this because there is nothing funny about how bad it is.
I understand that 'Gantz' is some sort of video game or manga cartoon show or both, and for fans of whatever-it-is this movie might be something fun.
But you definitely need a backstory because - for someone who's had no previous clue as to what this whole 'Gantz' might be (like me), and just gave it a watch because Netlix - this whole thing is just too ridiculous and too terrible to watch.The animation isn't good.
The action director isn't John Woo. In the opening scene some monster grabs a car (this looks weird, as the car seems to have no mass/inertia) and throws it at a lady.
(So physics again way off.) I'm sure this intervention is supposed to look cool and heroic, but because of the poor use of slo-mo and terrible physics, it just looks weird and is anti-climactic.(Also, this whole time the viewer who has no foreknowledge of this video game/cartoon show doesn't know what's going on.
The viewer is supposed to accept this without any backstory and/or explanation as to why, who, what and where - my guess is because the movie is made for people who already played this game.
I haven't read the Manga, but I have seen the TV show and the two real live action movies.
I personally think, the really crazy and action packed beginning works very nicely for everyone.But don't worry, after the introduction (if you can call it that), we get the real introduction where things get explained a bit.
Gantz was a good read as a manga because you could skip trough the lamer parts and just view is as a pure action title - which was its strongest part.
As an adaptation, for person like me who is familiar with all of these source materials, I have to say Gantz doesn't work as a stand alone title at all.
This movie is the least mature take on the Gantz franchise for sure.
On the other hand, I would have never watched this movie if it hadn't been on Netflix recommendations.
I've seen some older anime and would usually rather watch a real life movie rather than an animation but the choices on Netflix have dried up quickly and I finally decided to try this.
Right from the start the action kicks in and as the other reviewers pointed out, the CG/animation looks absolutely awesome.
If this movie considers that the viewer has pre-knowledge of Gantz then there is no problem.
Worth watching for sure, better than most real live movies I've seen on Netflix..
good pseudo Game movie, but lacks of content & answers.
The idea is very good, a pseudo action RPG game in real life with uknown creatures.
But the most important was that after the movie ended, it left me with lot of questions like, are the points accumulable ?
My rating is 6.5, but this movie could be very good, I hope if there is a second part, they give some answers..
As a manga fan i'm feeling grateful that this doesn't turn into crappy cgi and reduce like 50% of the storyline just like the live-action.
Overall it's amazing, i'm fully enjoyed it especially as it manga fans..
Great action, TERRIBLE dialogue and writing..
but this, no.I watched the English dub (bad idea I know) and I was very disappointed.Animation rocks, great fight scenes and action.A 17 yr old high school kid goes from zero to hero in 2 hours getting a model/ idol AND a 23 yr old mom to fall in love with him setting up his harem for life.