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Just watched SP today in the theater, am actually impressed that I get to watch SP first before Gantz (it's coming to SG next month, yay!), and actually never really expect to see it released here. It's good that you watch the drama first, or you just watch the SP episode which is basically a summary of the whole drama, in other words, a waste of time if you already watch the whole drama, before going for this movie to get the background on the characters. But, even if you never watch the drama, the plot itself is quite easy to follow because everything is already layed out for the audience, not much twist like what you have in the drama. So, what makes this movie ranked as #1 for few weeks in Japan then, besides being released at the good timing?

First of all, the actions. In deed it's more packed with action compare to the drama. You'll see Inoue (Okada's character) jumping up and down over rows of cars, running a lot (literally), doing lots hand-on-hand combats. And Inoue is much less blur now, although his series of migraines is getting more frequent, but nevertheless, he's becoming more like the model SP. More explosives and more crowds are used to prove that this is a movie, not a drama. I particularly like the scene towards the end when Inoue throws back the dynamite to the baddies and blows up their car. That's just kakkoii. And then when he challanges the snipper to shoot him, that's to show how pissed off he is with the baddies haha...

The plot, well, it's after the biggest twist from what the drama left off, so you basically know who the baddies are, and in this movie, you'll come to know that there are more of them and even more powerful ones. And the nerdy guy with the glasses who is always around in the corner on almost every scenes be it in the drama and now in the movie, turn out to be the a somewhat good guy. I wouldn't go as far as saying he's really a good guy yet, but judging from the current plot, he's working to uncover whatever behind the suicide of the Chief Police. Off course, the additional point that's not included in the drama is that the suicide of Ogata's dad. And that he planned to kill the prime minister himself, if not the incident with Inoue's parent occured at the point of time. They didn't go as far as to give more hint on what makes Ogata wanted to kill the PM then or how he starts harbouring the intention of changing the world by doing something revolutionary, as with intention of planning fears in society, which is none other than terrorism. In the middle of this whole mess, there're lots of politics going around as the setting itself is the circle of politicians with the SP officers guarding them and caught up in the middle, and Inoue is the perfect example, of being standing out too much that the baddies wants him dead, but as of this movie, they didn't manage to kill him yet.

And, the last part, this is not the last part of the story! There's 1 more movie coming up, the Kakumei Hen! There's no news yet on when it's going to be released in SG, but the last bits of the movie show a trailer of the supposed to be 'Last part'. The OST, it's still the same old 'Way of Life'. Overall, it's a good and entertaining movie, not much on the acting, but hey, it's Okada, so I'm in, V6 FTW!