Coming from Steins; Gate. This movie is quite a disappointment. Although, I didn’t enjoy the show as much as I hoped I would, the story and the characters still intrigued me. Where as the original show tries it’s best to sum up it’s complex plot while not forgetting it’s characters. It tries it’s best to rationalize everything that’s going on in the world.
The first half of the movie was enjoyable. With Okabe’s and Makise’s relationship with the addition of the new déjà vu plot device. It was pretty interesting. But it’s the final act that certainly left a bad impression on me. I mean take the couple of scenes for example. How the hell did Makise know where and when Okabe was going to reappear? How is Okabe in a world line that’s empty of humans? If that world line is not inhabited, how does infrastructure exist? What about Okabe’s first kiss being stolen by Makise. How did that manage to not shift world lines in a big way. Doesn’t even simple changes result in big consequences with the butterfly effect. On top of that, the movie also shows us that Okabe remembers it. Would this memory not affect his relationship with Makise during the three weeks of summer in the alpha world line. How come that all of these are ignored.
It’s these kinds of questions that really bugged me. It just broke my suspension of belief to a point that made me disgusts that last scene. And left me disappointed at the end of it all.