Unlimited Blade Works

The movie UBW(Unlimited Blade Works) is based on a visual novel developed by Type-Moon in 2004. It revolves around a war called "The holy Grail War" which occurs every 10 years. Each time it is a fight to the death between 7 masters(mages) and their servants(legendary spirits summoned by the holy grail to fight). The last standing can then claim the holy grail which has the power to grant any one wish. The main character is a survivor of the holy grail war that occurred 10 years ago. He was saved and adopted by a master of that holy grail war and lived peacefully for 10 years. The plot involves him getting dragged into the holy grail war as a master and teaming up with another master to survive, a thing easier said than done.

That said, this film is not for children as it contains lots of violence and people brutally killing each other, a thing which is pretty epic when it's in 2-D... I mean they can show alot more than they could with real people and they aren't sued by strange americans because this is a japanese film. I would not say that it resembles a horror movie or a psychological thriller at all. Well it is actually kinda hard to go to sleep after seeing it, though that is because you just want to see it again.

Just to be clear on one very important point, this is a movie for fans much more than the general public. Being a movie adaptation of the second arc of a visual novel which takes about 30+ hours to read it has to skip some parts of it. Even so it is amazing just how much they manage to do with this movie. This movie has alot of fighting scenes with some nice coreography and  a very good story. This movie has some of the best fighting scenes I have seen in a long time and the backgrounds are probably best described as eyecandy. UBW also has an amazing orchestral soundtrack which goes well with the fighting scenes. Well truth be told I really wanted Heaven's Feel instead of Unlimited Blade Works but I guess you can't always have things your way.