This gonna be my first time doing this so hopefully, it's alright. JJK 0 for me really fell hard under the "refined extended tv anime episodes" rather than actually looking like a movie. As someone who really enjoyed the prequel when I first read it, hell I'll admit it I enjoy Yuta a whole lot more than I ever have with Yuji I just haven't really found anything to say that makes this movie stand out when it comes to ambitious directing. Throughout the entire film, I just felt that everything looked well and compositing looked better compared to the actual series but it felt like it could've been executed in an ova setting more than a movie. I think Rika was definitely a character where there should've been some sort of expansion on her as she felt really shallow in the manga and there was an inclusion of a bit of her backstory in the manga extra if I remember correctly. Megumi Ogata was someone who I knew would absolutely kill this role with Yuta and she does a phenomenal job once again with him.

The movie does a great job following a 1:1 adaptation and doesn't really miss a beat in it other than adding in some new scenes such as Todo, Nanami, Mei Mei, and others getting some small screen time here and there but the movie won't stray away much at all from the manga if people were worried over that.

Kouki Fujimoto's sequence in the movie might've been my favorite part and easily the strongest throughout the movie (His sequence should be the start of when Yuta fights Geto and the ost The Real You plays) he has such great fx work and his black flash was incredible as well also Shinsaku Kozuma has a great cut with the explosion at the end. Speaking of OST the movie felt really lackluster with it, the main series I felt had a pretty solid ost and I was really pumped to hear what they would have in store with the movie but other than "Greatest Strength" and "The Real You" it was extremely dull and I felt that they held back on it.

I don't really mean for this review to sound all negative because I've seen the movie two times and I did enjoy it both times, it just lacks that ambitious directing that I felt could've elevated this movie higher such as the third MHA movie with cuts such as Suzukis and Hayashi's or even SAO Progressive just felt much stronger when it came to the overall direction of a film even though when it comes to story JJK 0 was far better for me.

Even with these issues I still recommend people to watch this film Ogata does an amazing job with Yuta and Fujimoto's cuts are absolutely incredible but I can't really say much else other than the feeling that it could've worked better in the OVA format rather than a theoretical film.