1/31/26, the second film of 2026 was awful. I planned on watching a couple others, mainly Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue, but I held it off despite wanting to watch it today and I was so incredibly bored I went on Tubi and watched the second worst regret of my life. Please, don't watch this film. I'm reviewing it out of sheer spite.
I don't even have much else to say really, I had some white shells and cheddar from pasta roni for lunch, if you wanted to know. But, next time I decide to engage with Go Nagai, I'll just read it 😅. I will not talk about the plot details, as I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone wanting to read Devilman, so yeah. I'll just be roasting the shit out of it for the next two or three paragraphs.
Devilman is a 2004 adaptation of one of Go Nagai's best selling and most influential manga, Devilman. The second in a trilogy of connected stories between Demon Lord Dante, that, and Violence Jack. And, for those who know me I know I talk a lot of dislike about Go Nagai, but this film review has no bias or anything from me.
The film had absolutely trash CGI, it's on par with the level of television CGI like the zombie vr episode of House M.D it looked nearly identical actually. The combat was terrible too, it was mostly made with CGI (according to wikipedia it's rumored it's because the director didn't know how to make fightscenes)
The music is just bad too. Think of the most generic, 2000s, low budget action film soundtrack and you got the Devilman soundtrack.
The acting was incredibly stiff, and the writing was terrible too. Though, I watched the English Dub and not the subbed version, but I doubt it made a difference. The dub was, again, stiff as a 2x4 piece of wood. They had no emotion. When a certain major character died, the guy who dubbed Akira did a "scream" but it was like the guy just got told to go "Ahhhhhh" with no emotion. It was borderline cartoonish, but even then I've seen cartoons with more emotion than this.
The casting was incredibly odd, having idols and celebrities like Bob Sapp, a wrestler who played a news reporter. Ai Tominaga, a famous model who played Silene. The Izaki brothers who played Akira and Ryo were members of J-Pop group FLAME, with Akira notably never acting once prior to this film. Though, I don't blame them, they weren't directly responsible for the film being bad and were just doing their job.
I'm done roasting the film, and I'd like to mention the two or three good parts about the film. One, I liked the uncle, he was played by Ryudo Uzaki/Tachibana from GMK, my favorite character from my favorite Godzilla film. Two, I liked Jinmen when he was the cop going "Turtles are great. They're delicious." and swallowed one whole in front of a kid. Three, I liked the painter. Wish Jinmen didn't eat him.
This film, despite my hate-like ramblings, did not feel anything. I didn't feel happy and laughed at it's mediocreness like with The Amazing Bulk, I didn't moan and whine on how bad it was while actively watching it like I did with Reigo. I sat there, for two hours, blank face and being like "Dang, that sucks." When something bad happened. When the film ended I was just like, "Okay I guess."
The film, objectively and subjectively are only a 2/10, 3/10 if you're pushing it. I personally wouldn't recommend it, it took me two hours to finish it and was ironically the most on time I've been watching a film so far.
I need a palette cleanser after this if I'm going to watch another bad film, which I don't. But if I do, I will watch Mark Hamill's The Guyver, as it's incredibly mediocre in comparison to Guyver 2, so I heard.
That's all for today and just a friendly reminder.
Just. Be. Ultra!
