I love the fact that this exists and it isn't terrible, that's all it needed to be and the fans would have enjoyed it, due to how low the standard is for video game movies. But it's actually a good film.

A group of people went into work and styled a guys impossible hair to look like a character from a GBA/DS game not many people have played, it's so ridiculous and they knew it. The film was riding on…

It takes a particular sort of videogame film adaptation announcement to invoke any amount of excitement in most circles. No genre is more (justly) vilified than the videogame adaptation; and the consistency of lacklustre adaptations has slighted the reputation of a genre that had little to stand on anyway. Games are not appealing for their narratives; some manage a story competently, but few excel in their writing. The Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright series however is an unusual example where the writing…

Great movie, Its hard to tell if they are mocking the US court, lawyers and prosecutors or if they just wanted to do their own "thing". Nevertheless, its a great movie. It has its twists and turns, acctually several turns in the movie. It brings me to remember Agatha Christie (decades ago) mixed with "the pelican brief". I have never been a fan of moral speaches whether in US english or in Japaneese, that kind of things can really spoil…

Best movie based on a video game to this date.

Not an excellent movie, but very enjoyable. The plot is a bit messy, but it all fits in the end. It may be a big immersion breaker as the legal system is a bit weird and to different from ours, but that is because it is based on the games.
It is a weird thriller that surprisingly works quite well. It is surreal, different and weird, but it does what…

I borrowed one of the games from my class mate and it got me to Ace Attorney -mood.

I think that this is what all the fan(dom)-based movies should be like: No explanations for those who don't already know what's going on. No transforming and twisting to make things more understandable for bigger audience. There is no product, theme, style etc. in this world that would've gotten better by being transformed into something that masses can understand and 'Ace Attorney'…

I'll admit I started Ace Attorney with an almighty fear in my gut; the jist of the popular video game would simply not translate well to film. Luckily, the game has not only made the transfer to film, but it manages to do so in-addition of being an entertaining feature.

Among the stronger aspects of the adaptation is its visual style, which it uses to completely set the semi-ridiculous tone. Any fan of the series will tell you not to…