![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So "Ace Attorney" lasts a whopping 135 minutes and needs them all. that is a whole lot of story, and a pretty convoluted one as well. Those first small cases open a can of worms which doesn't get closed until the end of the fifth trial, and therefore the producers (and Capcom) decided that the film should cover all five trials. When I heard Miike Takashi was making this film, I hoped he would use the first two court cases, which together would make for a pretty neat intertwined story.īut the script is a wee lot more ambitious than that. I have to be honest here and say that I know the games and am a fan of them (*). Cue a film version.Īccording to director Miike Takashi the biggest challenge was to create a film that would cater to the avid fans, yet which still could be enjoyed by people who had never even heard of Phoenix Wright. Catchphrases like "OBJECTION!" and "TAKE THAT!" complete with character poses have become popular, not just amongst gamers but the collective mainstream as well. In Japan alone more than four million copies of these games were sold since the early nineties, and the characters from these games are well-known to the general Japanese public. The gathering part is old-style adventuring, while the trial parts in court resemble a dating-sim. In these games, you (playing as Phoenix) need to visit locations and gather evidence, and during trials you need to use this evidence against the testimonies of the prosecutor's witnesses. The movie "Ace Attorney" is based on the first five court cases from the long-running series of Capcom videogames starring attorney Phoenix Wright. Phoenix sets out to expose the truth and fight for justice, but inadvertently he opens a cesspool where prosecutors leave no dirty trick unused, evidence gets tampered with, witnesses are silenced, ancient cases get reopened and trials lead to more trials.Īnd that's without even mentioning the ghosts that keep appearing and a Japanese relative of the Loch Ness monster popping up in a nearby lake.Ĭan Phoenix Wright keep his head above water and his friends out of jail? Having barely won his first such trial, fledgling attorney Phoenix Wright suddenly gets a huge case dropped in his lap when his boss gets killed and an innocent is framed for the crime. Instead, prosecutors and attorneys have moved to something called "turnabout law": accuser and defender now have to produce, defend or attack all the evidence within three days, in tournament-like bouts in front of an audience. In the near future, crime will have risen to such a high level that the courts cannot cope any longer if they just use regular law. So, what is the film about? And is it any good? Note that we at ScreenAnarchy also got an opportunity to interview the man himself (link). And unlike a lot of his other output this one is squarely aimed at mainstream audiences. The IFFR and Miike have been friendly towards each other ever since "Audition" had a few legendary screenings over here back in 2000, and it was a very odd year when there WASN'T a Miike film during the last decade.Īnd indeed this year he again did not arrive empty-handed exactly: the IFFR got the World-Premiere of Miike Takashi's big-budget film "Ace Attorney", an adaptation of a VERY popular string of courtroom-based adventure videogames. One of the happy surprises of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam was a visit by the prolific and beloved Japanese director Miike Takashi. ("Strictly speaking, did this film need to be so extremely over-the-to." ![]()
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