AKA: CROWS ZERO 3
Genre: Action, Delinquents, School
Origin: Japan
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Cast: Higashide Masahiro, Saotome Taichi, Katsuji Ryo,
Nagayama Kento and Yagira Yuya.
This
movie is a sequel to CROWS ZERO 2, and the third movie in the series.
Kaburagi
Kazeo (Masahiro Higashide) is a new transfer student at Suzuran High School. As
he arrives he witness’ a fight between the current TOP Goura Toru (Yagira Yura)
and another student. The fight is interrupted by Kagami Ryohei (Saotome Taichi)
who arrogantly announces he will be the TOP. While commotion is going on, Kazeo
refuses to fight but knocks out a student whose attacking him, with a single
punch.
Former
mobster Katagiri Ken (Yabe Kyosuke) encounters Makise Takashi (Takahashi
Tsutomu) and while the two converse Makise offers Ken to work at the mechanics shop
with him. It is soon revealed that Ken used to work for Ryohei’s father, who
was the head of the gang, and had helped take care of Ryohei when he was
little.
Due to
issues at home, and some bad influence by drop-out from other schools, Ryohei
decides to rein havoc at both schools, and Ken’s new gig. At the same time,
Kazeo is refusing to fight, even though he might be the strongest amongst the
students…
I gotta
apologize for the summary, I really tried not to spoil, but it is very hard to
explain this movie.
If I were
to compare the movie with the other two I have to say it’s not as good, and I
honestly can’t blame it on the cast. This movie is bad because of the story.
Very little focus is used on the relationships between the characters, and they
used way too much time on Makise and Ken. I know that they tried to give a bit
back to the fans of the series, but with an entire new cast, I kind of felt
that I never really got to know the new characters. It is hard to trump the
originals I agree, but they didn’t give them much space to grow tbh.
Though
the layout of the school was much better, and the quality of the surrounding
was better - but still isn’t good of the overall doesn’t work. I mean they did
try to go all out, but the ended up having too much.
On the
other note, I admit it was refreshing having a new cast, and new storylines. I
like that it was much ‘lighter’ as in actually being able to see the scenes - for
example: the mob and the bars, which were so dark before… I guess the got a new
scenographer… Or whatever it’s called…
All in
all, okay movie, but not close to the originals.
☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars
♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts
