Just perfect...

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Disclaimer: I have not read the manga nor seen the anime, so feel free to discount my opinions and continue on to other, more enlightened, reviewers. That said: this movie makes no sense what-so-ever. What's left of humanity seems to live in a walled city, protected from marauding Titans. The wall is breached by an immense deformed giant, accompanied by what appears to be a rain of meteorites. The opening in the wall is exploited by a number of smaller, but still giant, giants, who lack genitals and some, but not all, secondary sexual characteristics. These behemoths (many of whom have a 'slit-mouth', a popular Japanese horror motif) then messily devour people. Flash forward a couple of years: it has been discovered that the giants (who regenerate when damaged and were thought to be immortal) die if attacked on the nape of the neck. As this is a difficult shot to make, the humans devise a Buck Rogers-meets-Spiderman jet-powered grappling hook system (necessity is the mother…). This leads to lots of cool-drenched shots of youths flying around with samurai swords, slashing open the back of giant necks. I was doing OK up to this point but then a fat giant swallowed a 'hero', and shortly thereafter, the fat giant split open and something that looked vaguely like Eddie from Iron Maiden album covers climbed out, beat up the other giants, then spontaneously expired. Upon examination of his disintegrating corpse, the ingested hero is found alive the nape of the neck, prompting one of the characters to state that this must be why the nape-blows kill the Titans. With that elucidation, the movie comes to a close (anticipating part 2, which perhaps will explain everything). That's it in a nutshell, so if this synopsis intrigues you (and how could it not?), you'll have to watch the movie. I would not that say it's a particularly good movie, but it is picturesque and a novel way to squander a couple of hours.

Being the huge phenomenon "Attack on Titan" is (on manga and anime), a live action movie was always to have a huge problem to live up to expectations. This first part of a two-part shows all the shortcomings fans feared, but at the same time it is fun enough and has a quite good atmosphere.The movie (I would like to meet the person who came up with the weird English title, which is already on the original manga) has a pretty basic story. Titans appeared out of nowhere, humans hid behind walls (three, that separate agricultural, commercial and rich people zones) and 100 years have gone by since the attacks. The movie starts with an attack on the outer wall, and with our protagonists running away for their own lives. This first moments shows the good and bad of the movie. The attack is OK, the fear and desperation of people can be felt, but the actors are a little bit bland, the effects not "amazing" and the plot shows shortcomings (like some characters' actions). If the movie had amazing effects, those shortcomings would be easy to forget for many viewers, but here all piles to an OK start.The rest is more of the same in that respect. Action is OK but not great, effects range from ridiculous to OK, and the acting too. The idea of a hyper-militarized society, with so little space it is forced to reach out to get food to its inhabitants rings many bells... Nonetheless, it all ends up being interesting enough. But the mystery, which in the manga has time to develop, here has to be rushed, and it just leaves too many questions unanswered. Will those be answered in the second part?For now, it will probably disappoint many of the fans (starting with the 100% Japanese population of this world, couldn't they find anyone from somewhere else in the world?, and continuing with the difficult job of bringing the Titans to life). But it is also a good enough movie, that brings some tension, some fun, and a couple of questions (stolen from the manga) to think about.

I'm seriously begging for a future remake of this movie to save the franchise and its reputation. And (hopefully) the next time they do it, they should at least make it look like they actually give a s*** about it. I'm not gonna try to be redundant about my disappointment since the rest of the reviews here already said my thoughts. But seriously... Levi?? Why?? Oh, and that f***** potato girl by the way should have been cut out instead, if they're to change characters. Stick to the actual storyline and adapt them to the big screen. Please give this movie the glory it deserves. That is all.

Fans can make better versions of this story. Possibly the director preferred to show his "Personal" perspective of the film everything in this movie is a total crap, heck, crap is even more useful than this. This movie makes the last airbender look so nice and other live action adaptation of anime. Starting from the modern-post-apocalyptic design of the set to the script that was prepared for this movie. I think only the character of hange is the one i considered at least not an eye sore. Green screen, c'mon even youtubers can make use of the green screen better than how this production used it. The casting of the actors is really irritating, mikasa should give the vibe of a strong female character and eren is a strong willed person. How i hate the idea of how they are wearing the 3-D maneuver gear but not using it. In the manga that is a part of the training before they can even choose the department that they want to join. But they preferred to wait till mikasa and that other unnecessary person to show up and watch them kill titans using the gear and the swords. And by the way, i hate how they made mikasa hate eren then in a couple of minutes he cares about him again. Seriously, the whole production team should never make another movie involving adaptations again. And the director and the script writer should never enter the industry EVER