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We Were Children
(2012)
3.5/5

Ashes In The Snow
(2018)
3.75/5

The Heretics
(2017)
3/5

Psycho-Pass (2015) - First Time on FunimationNow
I thought the first two seasons of the Psycho-Pass series were frickin' amazing, so it probably goes without saying that I was eager to see how the follow-up movie turned out. It doesn't disappoint. It's every bit of a worthy follow-up to the two seasons that came before it, a natural extension of the story presented there and a great lead-in to the upcoming season three. The animation by the team at Production I.G is stunning. As a result, the gore is every bit as realistic as what came in the first two seasons and those without an iron stomach will probably want to steer clear of Psycho-Pass, both the movie and the series. With that said, the gore is story-appropriate in showing how messed up this world and this system is rather than gore just for the sake of gore. Some thrilling action doesn't hurt, either. The story by Gen Urobuchi and Makoto Fukami is an engrossing one, exploring just how flawed something like the Sibyl system is and what happens when that system is abused. Also, almost nothing is ever as it seems in the Psycho-Pass universe and that holds true here as well, Urobuchi and Fukami throwing the audience plenty of curve balls throughout its 114-minute running time. Like the series, it's also a great detective story, which is one of the things that immediately drew me to the Psycho-Pass universe to begin with. Much like he did for the series, Yugo Kanno gives an excellent musical score. On top of this, Funimation has produced an excellent English dub where much of the cast who dubbed the series has returned. Much like she was in the series, Kate Oxley is excellent as Inspector Akane Tsunemori, the incorruptible detective with a perpetually clear Psycho-Pass (which is interchangeable with crime coefficient in this universe) who flies out to the fictional Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn) to find out what's going on when her former partner is linked to a guerilla movement. So is Robert McCollum as Shinya Kogami, an ex-Enforcer and Akane's former partner whom she and her team allowed to flee Japan in order to escape assassination by the Sibyl system at the end of season one and who is helping to overthrow SEAUn's corrupt government. Josh Grelle, Cherami Leigh, Lindsay Seidel, Z. Charles Bolton, Lydia Mackay, and Mike McFarland are also excellent as Nobuchika Ginoza, Mika Shimotsuki, Yayoi Kunizuki, Sho Hinakawa, Shion Karanomori, and Teppei Sugo, who comprise the rest of Akane's team. Jason Liebrecht is also great as Colonel Nicholas Wong, as is Major Attaway as mercenary Desmond Rutagand, both making for some properly menacing villains. So is everyone else and the dub script is completely natural. All things considered, I really enjoyed Psycho-Pass and I don't have a problem recommending it to anyone who likes a good detective story - with some deeper themes thrown into the blender in this case - and can stomach the violence, although I'd recommend watching the first two seasons first lest someone gets lost while trying to understand the movie. With all that said, I can't wait for season three.