The Age of Commercialism

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Although the anime version of FMA is far from perfect, it is much better than this movie and I recommend watching it instead.Now, I of course understand that the movie had to cut out a big part the plot from the anime, since it has limited runtime, but the problem is what the movie did with the time it had.The actual alchemy in action is few and far between, which is a shame, but fine, I suppose I will give them that, since they had a limited CGI budget. So what shall you be watching most of the time? Not much, the characters who talk about nothing interesting, plot that isn't moving, or is crawling at a snail's pace and you will find yourself looking at your watch. Would be nice if they filled this time with at least talking about alchemy, since they are doing so little of it, so we could learn some interesting facts about it, or perhaps uncovered some more of the conspiracy that was going on... but nope.. pretty much nothing all that interesting going on a lot of the time (or moving very slowly).Since the main storyline ended up not fully resolved, it means this is supposed to be a trilogy, so let's hope the sequel will do much better job that this meh movie.The acting was fine, but unless you are an anime fan, then the overreacting the characters do will seem strange to you.So even though the movie was not terrible, it was just a pale shadow of the original.

I never read any of the comics or watched the Anime of "Fullmetal Alchemist", so I had no idea what I should expect from this live action rendering of the concept. I just had a little information about what it was about, so I sat down to watch it with no expectations or hopes, as I found it on Netflix.It turns out that this movie was actually entertaining enough for what it was, although the storyline was somewhat simplistic, and there were no twists or turns along the ride."Fullmetal Alchemist" (aka "Hagane no renkinjutsushi") was long, painstakingly long. And they could have trimmed it down with some more intense and thorough editing, because there was a lot of stuff which wasn't really serving more than being eye-candy and filler on the screen.The characters in the movie were adequate, although the lead role played by Ryôsuke Yamada was somewhat of a swing and a miss, because he was rigid and monotone in his performance. Yasuko Matsuyuki, playing Lust, was really perfect for the role, but it was a shame that she, as the villain, didn't have more time on the screen. Tsubasa Honda, playing Winry, was carrying a great deal of the movie, as she had to pick up where Ryôsuke Yamada came in short.The visuals and special effects in the movie were amazing, and they carried the movie quite a long way.An entertaining movie for sure but it was just way way too long.

The night we finished watching full metal alchemist brotherhood me and my friend sat down to watch the movie. We managed to watch 12 minutes before bursting into tears from laughing. It's a diagrace if you consider that full metal alchemist is a brilliant anime

First review ever, but had to. This is bad. Music is hokey, graphics are bush league, and acting is lacking. I mean if I can't get past 12 minutes then something is wrong because I will almost always give a movie or show a chance.I give it 3* because maybe, just maybe the story or concept is actually good. Problem is the production is so hokey (best way to describe it) that I cannot even give the film a chance.Those that rated this anything above a 5* must be sentimental to the anime or something.