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Watched this on the plane back to Singapore couple days ago. It's the sequel form the 2010 movie under the same franchise. What previous movie left of is the Inoue challanged Ogata to kill him right at the spot, but Ogata didn't and cancelled the plan. And from there, work goes on as usual with all the missions here and there, but the face off is left hanging, until the faithful day. In this movie, Ogata finally launched his revolutionary plan, and how did he do it? He's not alone, there're lots of other bunch of beuracrauts infiltring the government from both political field or the police side. The plan is executed quite well at the beginning of the movie with the terrorist aka Ogata's croonies lock up the whole cabinet and lawmaker during their diet meeting and set up lots of booby traps all over the building. Prior to Ogata's attack, Ogata instruct Inoue's team to inspect one room quite far from the meeting room, hence, the team only find out that their team leader is actually heading a terrorist act after Inoue sensed something wrong with the atmosphere (as expected the agent with SP power). Lots of action on bare-hand combat (yey), but what you'd expect from SP movies should be the twist, will Ogata succeed in his mission? What other details will be revealed and what is Ogata's true motive? You have to watch it and experience the tension.

There's no doubt that I'll watch this movie again because airplane screen are just TOO SMALL. This is one of the rare franchise that still have good stories despite of it being the 'final' movie. The action sequences are quite cool, I winched couple of times seeing Inoue got beaten up like that but he survived (LOL)! The cleaning team (the small truck that's always appear at the end of each show) is still there, and we still don't know who's heading them. In fact, this so-called final movie still have LOTS of other question marks. The biggest question mark from this movie is what Ogata had written in his letter to Inoue and why Inoue's still keeping the letter.

I'd assume that this is not the end considering this franchise is quite a successful box office, and they still have lots of details to be revealed plus lots of dark secrets to be exposed. The prime minister is not dead yet (yeah, that horrible person is still alive), the opposition leader is still alive (after what he's done to Ogata *some spoiler here*), and Inoue still has his migraine, so yeah, the franchise is not ending yet. Totally recommend this movie for the thrill of it, and oh one fun thing to know, they throw in some commedy stuff every now and then and it involves Yamamoto beaten up by Sasamoto and Yamamoto loves it, LOL.
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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!

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