It feels like Death Note and Tokyo Ghoul was competing for the worst manga adaptation of the year. The plot comprises of the first 6 episodes of the anime adaptation which comes around in the same running time but the film messes it all up with an unfocused narrative losing any depth in the tale. The acting looks uninspired for the most part which I presume to be the problem of the debutant director's lack of control over the acting. The kagune vfx looks bad but it's probably because they didn't have any idea how else to show it. The actors didn't look right for the parts, som where older while some were younger than they are supposed to be for the characters to work. The first half had a flow even though there wasn't anything great but it was destroyed by choppy editing in the second half. The various levels of conundrums that were deeply explored in the anime look stale and idiosyncratic. This could have been a great film but it was worse than Death Note.
Review of Tokyo Ghoul
