Bungó Stray Dogs: Dead Apple

I love Bungo Stray Dogs anime series and I really enjoyed the first two seasons. Now, I am about to watch the third season, and so when I noticed thanks to one of my favorite reviewers that the movie, which I must have missed last year, was out now, I just did not hesitate to get a hold of it and put it on. However, well, in all honesty, I have to say it was disappointing. For the first hour or so I was kind of bored, even though the anime’s creators introduced me to the plot with a nice flashback scene and quite an interesting narrative involving the backstories of both of the main male protagonists. At times I had trouble following everything as it rushed by at full throttle, and my attention sometimes wandered elsewhere during this time. Was it the movie’s fault? To tell you the truth, I just do not know, perhaps it was my own fault and I had unreasonable expectations... However, I am sure that it was only in the last half hour when everything got going because there were some interesting fight scenes that caught my attention in terms of cool action sequences, the animation had some originality, plus I was glued to the screen and it reminded me of why I love this anime series. It also reminded me of the originality of the productions coming out of the Bones animation studio. However, by that time it was pretty much too late, so in general, I think it is just a little better than average - 6/10. (29.04.2019)