B-Thunder

Where to start with "The Rose of Versailles" from 2025? Visually, I have to admit, the film has its own elegance. The graphics are clean, the costumes are sumptuous and some scenes recreate the atmosphere of the time well. However, let's stop here with the compliments, because for the rest... a disaster waiting to happen!

The story, which was the beating heart of the manga and the old, timeless anime, has been literally massacred here. They have cut away entire narrative arcs, fundamental characters have been reduced to extras if not eliminated altogether. It almost seems as if they have taken the most beautiful and significant pages with scissors.

Those who loved the intricate dynamics between Oscar, André, Marie Antoinette and Fersen, the psychological depth of the protagonists, the political and social nuances of the French Revolution, will find here only a pale summary, hasty and superficial. The charisma of the characters has been lost along the way, their motivations appear sketchy and the emotions, which in the manga and anime tore our hearts, here leave us totally indifferent.

It's as if they wanted to make a "The Rose of Versailles" for those who have never read or seen the original, depriving it of all its richness and complexity.

There is no comparison with the old anime, which despite the technical limitations of the time, managed to convey the passion, drama and grandeur of this epic. The anime was an engaging experience, capable of making you cry, dream and reflect. This 2025 film is just an empty shell.

There were some things I liked, for example the action scenes, and some of the characters. However, I didn't like other characters, they also skipped almost all the fights in the manga, which were numerous, in this live action they aren't there, just as there aren't many secondary characters. Ultimately Netflix could have done a better job, what they proposed is too little, it doesn't satisfy me, especially the fifth episode I didn't like at all. It's like a very quick summary of the manga, where there aren't many things, and with some changes. Too quick, 5 episodes didn't satisfy me. My rating is low.

I just saw the film today at the cinema where I entered with great interest and the film partially disappointed me. I found a part of the film interesting another part of the film I didn't like, too many things already seen in other films, too many concepts used in other works, too many ideas copied from other films and animated works (there are animated DC products who have already shown similar things for years).

The CGI is good but not always, there are some points where it's not good. The story entertains but did not convince me at all. In short, a partially disappointing and partially promoted film, half half. I honestly expected more. The DC universe is now at the end, let's see if the new DC universe will be better or worse than this. Partially disappointing. My rating is low due to the lack of originality of the film.