Bayonetta: Bloody Fate

Fantastic artwork, heavy on the fan-service (leave it up to you whether that's good or bad!), very good animation, very good voice acting (although the two female adult leads sound distractingly similar), confusing storyline, generic music, dreadful dialogue. What can I say, I had fun. 7/10.

So here we have another "bad is good and good is evil" type of nonsense, which seems to be a prevailing subject these days.

I started watching this not knowing anything about the subject matter, but I didn't last long. It's just a bunch of clichéd, gratuitous, ridiculous tripe.

If you are a brainless clod who likes thinking "evil is cool because reasons", then this is for you. No thanks, that mess is beyond obnoxious these days.

Also, IMDb said I didn't have ten lines of text which is just as ridiculous. One can get their point across without having to write a novel, and I've seen shorter reviews than mine on here. Just another unnecessarily restrictive process IMO.

It's ok for an evening. Not like I was expecting much of anything from a game adaptation, especially, a game where plot is, probably, not on the front of one's mind. I did not play the game much, tried it long time ago, and it just wasn't my type of combat (weapons like swords and axes are more my thing), so I can be wrong in that regard.

Anyway, the movie itself has some nice animation, and it definitely has style, but that's pretty much it. The story is fine, but predictable for the most part, and definitely underwhelming. It lacks... Gravitas? Emotional involvement (if not a roller-coaster), world-building... Maybe more interesting side-characters. Or, at least, those, whose background is explored a bit more. On the other hand since it was 1.5 hours there was, objectively, too little time to explore them.

The game series is known for crazy stunts, but what I saw in the anime did not feel that crazy. Possibly because they seemed to lack weight to them. Like physical weight. I think it was one of the things that I did not like when I played the game as well: Bayonetta felt too light even compared to Dante from DMC3, where he was not particularly "heavy" in a fight. If I remember correctly, magic also had more explanation on how it works during its first level.

Again, for one evening, it's perfectly fine, if you temper your expectations. It will not blow your socks off, but it won't make you dose off, either.

I absolutely love how the story unfolds in the game. The anime? Not so much. Much of what happens is rushed through so quickly you barely have a moment to really savor it. The voice actors for the angels are laughably bad. Bayonetta while charmingly cheeky in the game is overtly sexual and soooo cheesy in the anime i want to throw up. In the game we feel for her on her quest to uncover her memories and we watch as she goes from taking everything as a joke to becoming serious and genuinely forming an attachment to "little one" and fighting to protect her. In the game Bayonetta actually feels like she might be in danger but in this anime nothing feels like a real threat. The epic ending battle in the game is not nearly as awesome in this anime. If this is your first time watching Bayonetta u will enjoy it. But if u are a direct game player than anime watcher you will be disappointed.

I never got around to playing the game, so I have no clue how true this 2013 animated movie is to the game or the franchise as a whole. But still, I decided to sit down and watch it.

I ended up watching a version with English language, and gathering from the Japanese cast listed on IMDb, then this was a dubbed version. Oh the horror! Words cannot begin to describe how much you should avoid English dubbed anime/manga. The English voice acting talents they had cast was just atrocious. It was some unfathomably poor voice acting talents for the project. Most of the time I was just cringing because of the one they had cast to do the English language for the Bayonetta character.

The animated was quite good and nice to look at. There was a lot of details to the scenes and lots of flashy colors. And it did help out a lot that there was almost a constant ongoing flow of action throughout the movie.

However, given the English dub and a somewhat lack of a deeper storyline, ultimately lead to this being a less than mediocre movie experience for me. And truth be told, I ended up turning it off with about 20 minutes or so left before the end. I just couldn't stand anymore of that awful dialogue and even worse delivery by whomever they had to voice the English version of Bayonetta.

Storywise, well I must say that it was sort of a flaccid experience. It was predictable and not really all that enthralling. Sure, the screen was a constant blur of action and colors, but the movie was just halting behind so badly in terms of not having a proper storyline.

I can't claim to be compelled to return to "Bayonetta: Bloody Fate" in order to finish the last 20 minutes. I simply was fed up with the questionable dialogue and delivery of aforementioned dialogue.

I suppose this 2013 animated movie will sit well with fans of the game. But for someone who is not familiar with the game, it was just not all that impressive.