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Finally I get to watch Platina Data! On the time slot when I watch this, lots of the seats are of fangirls, as expected. There're some guys as well, but most probably they're dragged by their girlfriends/spouses, so fangirls would still make majority of the audience. However, there are non fangirls as well watching this movie as it's promoted as a movie based on Higashino Keigo's novel under the same title in here.

In a gist, Platina Data starts with Asama getting on a case of serial killer with kids wrapped in plastic wraps as victims. Asama then being led to a conference where he saw Kagura for the first time (as well we the first squeel) as Kagura demonstrated how the DNA systems that he designed did the profiling for the serial killer by using DNA found at the crime scene. True enough, they catch the right guy. However, Asama seems to be still not convinced by the DNA system, whereas to Kagura, DNA decides everything that made up of a human. Not long after this, there're murders of a genius mathematician, Saki Tateshina and her brother, which is suspected to be linked to the other 3 previous murder cases as all have the same signature, one of their ribs being extracted (gross, yeah, I know, I cringed at these scenes). Asama sensed something wrong with Kagura, as Kagura was seen to be the last person visited Tateshina and he also was absent during prelim investigation. Meanwhile, Kagura quickly analyzed the DNA found in the crime scene and soon found out that he's the one killing Tateshina. How could this be? What will happen to the DNA system that he's designed if the designer killed the system's programmer?

For those who've read the novel, they'll note missing details. I'd love an English translated novel of this because it's really a pain for me to translate 2 chapters and there're still so many chapters to go. But that doesn't mean that you won't enjoy the movie. I'd think this is one of the good points from this movie. They know that the story is complicated and there are lots of things going on at the same time, so they don't dive on the scientific whatever details, but focus more on what the audiences want to see, the chase, who's the bad guy, who's the good guy, and so on. Hence, I find that the movie is much easier to digest than expected. I also love the setting of this movie. The details in the DNA lab scenes are convincing and the setting doesn't look cheap.

So, if Platina Data is screened in theater near you, do check it out because overall it's an enjoyable movie and it's certainly get your brain working digesting all the info thrown at you because the thing with mystery movie, there're lots of details, tons...