I can't believe this "movie" is just under an hour. Imagine going to a theater for this and by the 50 minute mark you're done. Even with the run time they had I can't help but feel like it was all wasted. I understand the story beats they wanted to go for, and it could have worked if written by someone more competent. Plot points like Jax abstracting was teased for the whole show, and instead we forward so Pomni can slowly wander through his brain. Nothing happens until we get to the Ribbit scene where we're subjected to this mini therapy session that was not necessary, and then Jax decides that he's an asshole now. This is not some lost soul who pushes people away as a defense mechanism. He has no reason to be so abrasive. It all ends with Isn't She Lovely which I guess is just a tranny victory lap or something.
That's Act 1 which feels like a completely separate episode from everything else. Maybe it literally was written as it's own episode and it got strung together as a movie because they wanted to be able to go to premier parties and hang out with celebrities instead of quietly releasing them on Youtube. It takes 30 minutes for us to get nowhere. Jax is still abstracted, we didn't really learn anything we didn't already assume, and it wasn't even that interesting to watch.
Act 2 with Caine at least manages to make the movie visually appealing to watch. It plays around with shapes, colors, and space. It's not groundbreaking but it's enough to keep my attention I guess. Caine has a cry session with himself and has a brief scene where I guess he Googles all of the people who were scanned into the circus.
His redemption arch doesn't really make much sense. I don't understand why he is suddenly so sentimental about everything when that hasn't been his character at all. What is it about nearly being deleted that made him change his perspective? Don't know but he gets rid of the other ai he absorbed. This confused me. Why did he do that? Was the blue ai evil? I thought that was the newer better model. Why didn't Caine give over control to someone who was more capable? How is he supposed to be any less powerful? Where did the other one go? Is it trapped in the void forever? No idea but I guess it doesn't matter because he goes back, everything is normal, all is forgiven The End.
It ends pretty much exactly where I expected it to end, but the journey getting there felt pointless. Where was the conflict? Where's the action? What did we actually accomplish? It doesn't feel like anyone changed, or grew, or struggled. We just sort of walked our way to the end of the story. It wasn't offensively bad like I expected it to be, but it definitely doesn't hold to the same standard as the rest of the show. It feels like too much time was wasted during the season that should have been spent on these plots, and now that they're out of time they have to jump to the end.
I give the ending a "I guess that's it" / 10.