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      Galaxy Express 999

      1996 2h 6m Sci-Fi Animation List
      Reviews 55% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A young man seeks a mechanical body so that he can confront his mother's killer. Read More Read Less

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      Martin F I made the mistake to see the 90's movie instead of the original one from 1979 not knowing it was the third part in a trilogy... Quickly, I was wondering why this movie is so loved, it's uneventful and introduces a lot of things for a nonexistent future installment, which was very frustrating especially when the end is just a narrator saying "their adventure is just starting". It looks like the first episode of a TV shows but even looking at it like that, it was no particularly interesting. The concept of a train traveling in space is original and fun but at one point it's just scenes in a regular old-fashioned train. Design-wise, the female characters all look the same with different haircut which is very confusing and the main character doesn't have anything to make him stand out, some background art was pretty good though. The main antagonist doesn't do anything, even when she has the chance to kill her opponents. She is basically just there being pretty and mysterious, we learn nothing about her. At one point, she gets melancholic about her life (without giving details about it) and it feels useless. The most infuriating thing about this movie, it's that a lot is introduce for a sequel, but for things that actually happen in the movie it's the total opposite, it's just thrown at you with the bare minimum, maybe of course it's because it is the third movie in the franchise, but for a movie that came out 20 years after the last installment they have all the reason, and the time during their uninteresting and silent scenes to explain a few things. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Galaxy Express 999 - of course its science is not true at all, but it is such a beautiful idea of a steam train running through the stars and this beautiful image is eternal. Who can resist it? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member The 3rd GE999 installment is perhaps not the best in the movie series as it's far too short at only 54 mins but it's still got an interesting storyline as a female warrior Helmazaria targets both Tetsuro and Maetel to be killed and there's a doom laden prophecy about the Earth. This is probably the best looking GE999 movie of the lot with gorgeous CG animation which surpasses the other 2 movies. Nice to see the resurrection of Claire, the dining car waitress of the train with a machine body made from glass and there's the obligatory rescue by Captain Harlock. It's just a shame that the storyline couldn't be carried on in another movie. Recommended for GE999 fans only. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The 3rd GE999 installment is perhaps not the best in the movie series as it's far too short at only 54 mins but it's still got an interesting storyline as a female warrior Helmazaria targets both Tetsuro and Maetel to be killed and there's a doom laden prophecy about the Earth. This is probably the best looking GE999 movie of the lot with gorgeous CG animation which surpasses the other 2 movies. Nice to see the resurrection of Claire, the dining car waitress of the train with a machine body made from glass and there's the obligatory rescue by Captain Harlock. It's just a shame that the storyline couldn't be carried on in another movie. Recommended for GE999 fans only. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A young man seeks a mechanical body so that he can confront his mother's killer.
      Screenwriter
      Trish Ledoux
      Genre
      Sci-Fi, Animation
      Original Language
      Japanese
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 7, 2019
      Runtime
      2h 6m