After binge watching the series, I felt compelled to watch the movies ASAP. I watched this film's Netflix release titled Evangelion: Death (True)² which is only 69 minutes long, so I will talk about that only. Well, it is indeed true that this film is almost only a recap of the series' highlight action and dramatic moments. It has very little new footage for the most part, but I will still recommend seeing it. I know it's not easy to cover an entire 26-episode series into a film running little longer than an hour, but the makers have done a good job.
It might not serve much purpose if you have put The End of Evangelion on hold to watch this one; the new footage is indeed not very huge and it's basically nonstop action from start to finish with some character moments, as a result of the summarizing. It does work as a standalone mostly, but I'd still recommend seeing the series first as a number of things related to the continuity might not easily make sense if you start directly with this film. I was fairly surprised the order of a lot of sequences has been altered, and that too impressed me; I overall found it a story that can be retold from different perspectives and styles, and this is where it really works.
I won't recommend skipping this film at all. It only makes you anticipate something bigger from the next film amidst this summary of all the mecha action and human emotion the series gave us.
It might not serve much purpose if you have put The End of Evangelion on hold to watch this one; the new footage is indeed not very huge and it's basically nonstop action from start to finish with some character moments, as a result of the summarizing. It does work as a standalone mostly, but I'd still recommend seeing the series first as a number of things related to the continuity might not easily make sense if you start directly with this film. I was fairly surprised the order of a lot of sequences has been altered, and that too impressed me; I overall found it a story that can be retold from different perspectives and styles, and this is where it really works.
I won't recommend skipping this film at all. It only makes you anticipate something bigger from the next film amidst this summary of all the mecha action and human emotion the series gave us.