K Tyler

I wanted to like this so badly. The visuals and voice acting were amazing, and you can tell they went all out on animation. It's also nice how each character shines, especially Bakugo. But you can tell they wrote theirselves into a corner. I can understand a bit of disbelief, like the main character surviving something deadly and showing up right on time. But the finale completely ignores how Midoriya's quirk works to give a huge beautiful battle I couldn't even pay attention to. If you read ahead in the manga and know more about One For All, it's especially distracting and creates SEVERAL plot holes if this was actually cannon. If I didn't JUST read that the creator wrote this, I would swear the writer skipped all of season 1 and never bothered to check if this would conflict in the future

The actors do their jobs really well, the music is very well placed, it's well filmed and directed, but the actual story is a hypocritical mess. Maybe they're trying to go for realism, but it completely loses the message in the process. Even tweaking the original "cop shot an unarmed black man" story so that the cop didnt have any justification (you know, NOT give the victim an object that is easily mistaken for a gun and/or have him come from an area where there was JUST a shooting moments earlier, and/or not give him a valid traffic infraction and/or NOT make the cop brand new and by himself), could've done wonders for this film's message. The thing that frustrates me is that this has so much potential to be a powerful thought provoking story. A dramatic expression of the human condition and issues within our society. Instead it chokes on the hypocrisy of a justified situation, which only serves to magnify the characters hypocritical actions as major flaws in the narrative instead of nuances and realism to give the story more depth.