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FIRESTORM
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Animation - 2.5 |
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Sound - 4.0 |
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Story - 1.0 |
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Character - 1.5 |
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Value - 1.0 |
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Enjoyment - 2.5 |
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Average - 2.1 |
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Brett |
2004-02-12 23:29:30 |
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| Average |
2.0 |
| Animation |
2 |
| Sound |
3 |
| Story |
1 |
| Character |
2 |
| Value |
1 |
| Enjoyment |
3 |
| A third, if not fourth rate cartoon(I cannot bring myself to call it anime) in almost all regards, about an anti-terrorist organization comprised of various international members whose designs collectively couldn't be any more politically correct if they tried. An evil organization teams up with some mysterious aliens and randomly causes trouble for our team of PC-heros.
Only one obscure group is subbing this show, and it should be painfully obvious why.
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| Average |
2.2 |
| Animation |
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| Sound |
5 |
| Story |
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| Character |
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| Value |
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| Ok, I know many here trashed this from the get-go just because of two English names listed in the opening credits as "based on a idea by...". Well, I didn't want to write it off quite that easily. After all, in TV parlance that can mean as little as a few lines scratched on the back of a napkin. Still, I really don't get the "idea" here. Terrorist organization, yada yada yada, world domination, yada yada yada, Elite fighting force, yada yada yada. It's all 100% cookie cutter action-thriller plot and little more than an excuse to have endless scenes of 3D CGI fighters zooming about blowing stuff up.
Even so, it completely lived up to it's reputation. What really makes this exceptionally bad is even with such a generic plot they still can't write a coherent story. For example, here's what I learned from the second episode.
* You can sink a huge bomb-laden tanker over the chunnel and nobody in authority will notice (until the "clever" team member points it out). Hm, yeah, billion dollar tankers go missing all the time - not really worth bothering with each one I guess.
* Disarming a bomb-laden tanker takes less time than the endless "preparing to launch" sequence (and I bet we get to see that every episode too).
* Traceable radio waves can now magically run underwater.
* Even so, bad guys bent on world domination wouldn't think of placing a receiver rather than a transmitter on the bomb.
* After tracing the location to a lone cabin cruiser floating nearby - which instantly opens fire with hidden AA guns - you still need to get a visual confirmation of who's on board before blowing it out of the water.
* Zippo lighters can double as a handy detonator!
* Terrorist organizations will happily let you defuse all their bombs and attack them up rather than press that Zippo detonator one second earlier than they said they would. (Hey, they may be terrorists, but they're not cheaters!).
* Middle aged bad guys and their vixen assistants are no creampuffs! They can have their boat blown up, escape unharmed, and still swim 8 to 10 miles to shore fully clothed. Gee, I haven't seen that kind of survivability since Cobra took on GI Joe!
All and all, this is is more the kind of crappy cartoon you'd expect to see on afterschool TV back in the 80s - just with a lot of CGI flash thrown in. Maybe if you were a big fan of the old product placement toons like of He-Man or Go-Bots you might get a kick out of it, but I'd think most anime fans would give it a miss.
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