After the first live action Gantz movie, Gantz, proved to be quite good, I had a reasonable amount of hope that the second, Gantz: Perfect Answer, would at least be OK.
It's not. It's mostly terrible. Even the gorgeous Ayumi Ito as Eriko can't save it.
Obviously the whole CGI budget was spent on the first part, because in this one the aliens are all conveniently taking on human form. They do something weird with their eyes from time to time to remind us that they are aliens... but mostly they are just people (often the same people who are normal people too).
And the story goes bonkers.
We know that Kei is desperate to get 100 points and resurrect Kato. But when the older guy gets 100 points first (how?) he resurrects Kato... even though he knows Kei is also just about to get 100 points. And then Kei resurrects the young brat fighter in the hoodie. Which would be fine, except that when everyone thinks that Gantz is about the expire the older guy becomes so desperate to get the last 100 points that he almost kills the innocent girl for it. Huh? He says he wants to resurrect his wife (did we even know she was in the running for resurrection, I missed that) ... but if that is so important to him, then why did he resurrect Kato? It just doesn't make sense.
And that is just the easiest to explain dumb thing about the story.
On the plus side, some of the fight scenes are better in this one than the first. But that's like saying the Star Wars prequels have merit because the lightsabre battles are better than in the original trilogy.
Overall this is a poor movie. I can't help thinking that like the animated effort, they should have done one decent film instead of attempting two.
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