G-Saviour - The Movie

Starring:Brennan Elliott, Enuka Okuma, Catharina Conti, David Lovgren, Kenneth Welsh, Alfonso Quijada, Taayla Markell, Blu Mankuma, Hrothgar Mathews, Brendan Beiser, Marlowe Dawn, Peter Williams (IV), Christopher Shyer, Sam Vincent, James Hutson, Ron Selmour
Director: Graeme Campbell
Studio: Bandai
Product Type: DVD

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G-Saviour: The Movie is an oddity: an American live-action film made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Gundam, one of the most popular and successful franchises in anime history. Although Yoshiyuki Tomino's mecha show actually debuted on Japanese television in 1979, it was the three feature-length compilations of the series released in 1981-82 that made Gundam a hit. The programs that followed are sprawling sci-fi epics that focus on teenagers whose psychic abilities enable them to pilot the splendidly designed robot-suits. The plot of G-Saviour, in which an evil general tries to destroy a mysterious enzyme that could end world hunger, is no hokier than many of the animated Gundam adventures. But the characters are all adults, and the turgid romance, in which a woman precipitates a war over her pilot-boyfriend's affections, lands with a thud. The film lacks the scope and brilliant design work of the anime series: despite the numerous CG effects by Digital Muse, G-Saviour feels like an undistinguished movie-of-the-week. Rated 13 Up: Violence, minor profanity. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews:

Disappointed........2006-12-26

I was ,overall, disappointed by this film. The plot should have been more detailed. If you look at any of the episodes of the gundam series you will see that they all have intriguing, provacotive, and detailed plots. The plot on this movie was not up to par for a gundam movie. There were times when I was watching this movie when I couldn't tell whether it was about the war of the colonies or the main characters' love story with the scientist. Although, I will admit the gundam fight scene in the end was pretty good. But thats about all I can say. The acting was near terrible, the special effects were sub-par, and the whole thing was just too predictable. In conclusion, this is DEFINITELY NOT a buy, barely even a rent. I only paid $1.99 for it, I feel as though I got my moneys' worth. You can buy it if you want to see the fight scene at the end but I implore you to not pay more than 5 or 6 dollars for it. If you do, you will probably feel like you were cheated. In my humble opinion that is.

Good, Bad, Cheesy..........2005-09-18

First off, I'm a HUGE Gundam fan. I'm collecting all the series, and I had to get this. (How could I pass up a live action Gundam movie?!)

The movie was well made, but it had a lot of sequences that reminded me of the more... cheesy moments of SeaQuest DSV.

Basically, I feel that the graphics and the story were a little half-assed. I mean, while you see 2 Mobile Suits for about 4 mins (MAX) near the beginning of the movie, and two other quick shots a bit later, you don't see any more until near the end! Isn't this a Gundam Movie? Shouldn't the Gundam, or other Mobile Suits be in this a lot more? I think that in the entire film, there's maybe 10-15 minutes of Mobile Suits, and this is a 2 hour movie!

The story... (SPOILERS INSIDE THIS PARAGRAPH!) Basically, it's Universal Century 223. Earth is on the edge of famine, and two scientists may be on the virge of a breakthrough that could solve this problem, once and for all. The Earth Alliance, (or certian factions within the Earth Alliance) decided that such a breakthrough is not needed, as without it, power will be given to those who can provide food. Now while this may sound like a nice concept, things get worse... One pilot, who was in the military a number of years back, is framed as a killer and is labeled a traitor when he helps free one of the scientists with the breakthrough, eventually getting her off of Earth, and to the colonies. Now the only way to stop the scientist from finishing the breakthrough is the declare war on the Colonies. (Although, like the rest of the film, this is done by making the Colony shoot at them first, making their "war" a retalitory act. -_-' )

The execution of the story is just plain predictable, and not very invocative.

The Gundam and Mobile Suits aren't that good either. The 3D looks like graphics that belong in The Last Starfighter, which had the first computer graphics meant to be real-life visuals. (It was released in 1986. This film is 2000. That 14 years!!) Basically, this film looks like it was made on a shoe-string budget, and has absolutly no visual resemblence to any of the Gundam series, aside from the design of the G-Savior, AKA The Gundam, and the basic design of the Earth Alliance uniforms. (Oh, the Earth Alliance soldier/marine outfits look like they were taken straight off the Starship Troopers set...)

Now while I may have just really badmouthed this film, it's not without it's good points. The 15-minute battle at the end of the film is rather good, even if the graphics aren't up to par. The execution of the non-MS sections were well done, and the concept for the whole thing had a lot of potential.

In many ways, I feel that this had the chance to be something wonderful, and it ended up being a home-made cheesy film.

Honestly, I think this could of been done better, even for the time. But at the same time, I think it's kinda cool to see something like this done.

Overall rating: 2&1/2 out of 5 stars.

More of an episode of the Outer Limits than anything Gundam.......2005-02-25

This movie is ok by American sci-fi standards if not associated with the Gundam franchise...but as a 20th aniversary celebration it falls well short of Sunrise's usual standards. The plot is incredibly simplistic and the cliche characters are all far too happy and care-free for being on the verge of war.

The "war" is quite small as we see maybe a total of about 80 mobile suits(including the reinforcements from the incredibly cliche "illuminati" force of quasi-gundams that arrive without any fleet transport/escort at the end) and only two ships built for battle, one of which is a mobile suit transport with no apparent weapons of its own.

The G-Savior is quite a joke as far as Gundams go as well. In EVERY Gundam series the main Gundam is an advanced suit that is better than the mass-produced models. From what we can see, the G-Savior is actually INFERIOR to the RX-78 original Gundam in everything other than appearance.

To tell the truth, I feel really sorry for those that worked on the project and the shame they must feel for their failure. It really would not be difficult to create a story that would fit in Gundam's impressive storyline and to have memorable characters, but apparently it was beyond them.

Fair movie, Bad Gundam........2004-04-02

Now I want every one here to note I have seen at least one episode of every gundam series ever, in fact I have seen at least 70-80% of all gundam in my time, now this movie is an interesting concept: Live Action movie taking place in the Gundam universe, even though they never say the word "Gundam" at all you can see words like "Mobile Suit" pop up in places.

The movie lacks every thing that makes a good gundam, I can easily get past the fact it is not the best looking film I have ever seen, but the characters lack chemistry, the other UC gundam characters were so great was because they all had a chemistry and all reacted to each other in a diffrent way, and you could easily understand their situations. The characters in here do not seem nearly as tragic as in "Mobile Suit Gundam" or the kill-a-minute "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam" in fact I would go as far and saying I did not like, understand, and I can not even remember the names of most charcters, unliek the epic motion picture "Mobile Suit Gundam Char's counter Attack" the characters in "G-Saviour" are rather plain and uneventfull, the action ( I know how much you probably love action) is very low, in fact, the show lacks the "full scaleness" of "Mobile Suit gundam SEED" of which it would look like every one was involved and the war was really brutal, "Savior" on the other hand made it seem like a walk in the park. In fact, this movie was actually kicked off the UC calender, because it had WAY to many continuity problems, over all I suguest looking into it if you are curious, how ever the film falls VERY short of being what the other UC shows were.

My eyes are burning.......2004-02-04

Oh god was this bad. It was so bad that while watching it all I could think of doing was hunt down and kill whoever made this piece of crap. Let's see what else the plot for starters. Wow if this wasn't the stupidest thing in the world I don't know what is. Heck monkeys with typewriters could come up with a better plot than this. Acting: horrible. My six year old sister could act better than these clowns. All 30 seconds of CG was kind of cool, maybe if you where on acid. Whatever you do don't buy this, don't borrow this from a friend. And if you do buy this then I'm sorry my friend but God hates you and you are a born loser.

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