Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
A traumatized pilot wakes in a devastated future where former allies, impossible machines, and another apocalypse make understanding itself a battlefield.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Moderate
- surreal
- foreboding
- melancholic
- anime marathon
- mecha movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film visually extraordinary and energizing but narratively obscure, emotionally distant, and difficult for newcomers to follow.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Shinji awakens fourteen years after the near third impact to find the world radically transformed and the conflict still continuing.
The film juxtaposes giant-robot battles and cataclysmic impact imagery with highly abstract visual sequences.
The altered relationships, new factions, and continuing impact mythology are presented with limited exposition, especially for viewers unfamiliar with the series.
Shinji's depression and struggle to understand the changed world are bound to Evangelion combat and the threat of another impact.
Films like Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, and why
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
shares post-apocalyptic anime worldbuilding, psychologically distressed protagonists, giant-robot combat, and dense mythological science fiction
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
shares surreal mecha action, apocalyptic stakes, emotional alienation, and visually maximalist anime direction
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
shares cryptic post-apocalyptic science fiction, biomechanical combat, and emotionally fractured human relationships
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
shares abstract science fiction spectacle, existential themes, and a young protagonist confronting a transformed world
Movie Details
- Directors
- Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Mahiro Maeda, Kazuya Tsurumaki
- Release Date
- 2012-11-17
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 (974)
Cast
- Megumi Ogata
- Yuko Miyamura
- Akira Ishida
- Megumi Hayashibara
- Maaya Sakamoto
- Kotono Mitsuishi
- Yuriko Yamaguchi
- Fumihiko Tachiki
- Motomu Kiyokawa
- Mariya Ise
Common questions
- What is Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo about?
- A traumatized pilot wakes in a devastated future where former allies, impossible machines, and another apocalypse make understanding itself a battlefield.
- What is Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo as breakneck, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as dense.
- Is Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo as moderate.
- What did critics think of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo?
- Critics broadly found the film visually extraordinary and energizing but narratively obscure, emotionally distant, and difficult for newcomers to follow.
- Which films are like Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo?
- Films with a similar feel include Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio, and Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars.
- How long is Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo?
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo runs 96 minutes.
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