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I have become accustomed with some pretty weird ideas in Naruto movies and a lot of useless scenes before Naruto unleashes some fox power or has the will of fire do something or something ridiculous like this. In Lost Tower, the story is much more believable, the characters are interesting and likable and overall the only thing I had a problem with is that Naruto is a very young one, a long time before the one in the anime as I know it. Of course, this was released in 2010 and has reached Europe a year later and I am seeing now, so a lot has happened since then.

Basically, Naruto goes in the past, fights the evil madman ninja and saves the girl. He still gets none, though, which should have been frustrating for anyone not Japanese. Some interesting interaction with his father, though. Bottom line: an easy win for the Naruto movies.

I was quite interested heading into this movie because it has a rather negative reputation, and it turns out there's a reason for that. This installment in the "Naruto" movie series was mostly kind of a bore. Most of this film is either wasted potential or stuff that we have seen before in previous films. If you read my reviews, you might remember that I said the same thing about "Bonds", but even that film had more to offer than this one did.

The thing that got me most excited is the fact that Naruto goes to the past and meets his father, Minato. This potential was completely squandered, however, because they did almost nothing with the character of Minato. Him and his teammates had no relevance to the plot aside from helping out in the battle scenes. They did so little with this idea that the movie would have been no different if they didn't include Minato at all.

Sara is nothing special as a supporting character. Basically, she was yet another princess character who has been deceived by the person closest to her for many years and comes to her senses when Naruto gives her the obligatory "do the right thing and believe in yourself" pep talk. In fact, there are many ways that this movie is a rehash of the pervious films. These elements started getting old a few movies ago, and it was particularly stale here.

Mukade is yet another bland and boring "Naruto" movie villain. I'd say he gives Shabadaba from "Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom" and Shinno from "Bonds" a run for their money as the worst one yet.

There were a couple of action scenes during the film that were pretty good, I guess, but things really started to drag during the third act. The climax was very repetitive and boring, and I just didn't really care about what was going on. The animation was okay, but nothing overly special aside from doing a really good job of selling the scale and scope of the city of Roran.

After the fantastic "Inheritors of the Will of Fire", this film was a huge let down. I really thought that the interactions between Naruto and his father would give this movie some value, but the wasted potential just really disappointed me. The whole endeavor was rather boring for the most part, and I would caution "Naruto" fans to not expect too much from it.

RATING: D+

So I already know that a lot of the movies,don't have anything to do with the show and don't line up properly. But. This one was ridiculous. So first we start off telling him to cut the Chakra strings. Ok got it. But he missed several opportunities to cut it on multiple puppets.

Then there's the time travel it's like ok that's off but fine let's say the transportation technique with that much chakra can create a time vortex. But what bothers me. Is i'm sure by now. Naruto has seen chojis. Yet he acts like he knows who no one is. So I guess this is before he learns sage mode. And doesn't meet his dad. So if he doesn't recognize the other two ok. But multiple times they split up and tell him to protect sara and they will handle the rest yet everytime here comes the puppet. And none of the other shinobis. So what are they doing in all that time. Where are they. They bring kakashi on the mission which he only did some explosion tags a few times. Other then that. He didn't need to be there.

Then he does rasengan so many times and he never saw it until the end. And how did he find out that if two rasengans together can create and ultimate one. Which by the way is probably the only good part of the whole movie. Then also how did they find out that guy was from the future. Six years ago he arrived like where did they get this intel. And why were the locals so off their rockets always looking confused. And then the Gillian was under ground controlling s puppet. But they never sent after him. How did he die.

Then he does the rasengan was told to never do again sure it got absorbed. But didn't he learn not to do it again. And he barely even uses the kyobi chakra.

Sorry but I found this to be the weakest one ever made with any of the Naruto's. Everyone jsut leaves naruto to dk everything. Where are they they weren't shown to be defeated just not around. The story just doesn't make sense.