Overall Rating - 7.2 - Mixed Feelings between Very Good and Questionably Dubious
I would probably recommend watching.
First Movie
As a little into, a separate opinion for the first movie only:
Sakura is very good and very likable most of the time. Somewhat confusing occasionally, but may be it is just that Shirou does not take full advantage of a girl like her. I would totally exploit her obedience to the maximum.
I thought Heaven's Feel is about her and her route, but she is not getting enough screen time.
Saber and Rider are also likable in this route so far.
Rin actually helpful and useful, but she is still her usual unlikable tsundere snob.
Shinji Matou is a better Shinji, but he is no Gilgamesh.
Story and battles are somewhat pointless compared to Fate/Zero
However, because of how submissive Sakura is, first movie alone possibly deserves 8.0 out of 10
The Three Movies Combined
I could give the first movie a somewhat better score since Sakura is very nice submissive obedient doormat girl in this one.
This is probably the most warped anime I have seen. I only watched Heaven's Feel Movies, I have not seen UBW or Fate route episodes, but I did watch Fate/Zero
I dropped Eva but completed this one because I wanted to see what will happen to Sakura.
First about Sakura:
In the first movie she is very nice submissive girl.
In the next two it kind of gets crazier.
What bothers me is that she somehow simultaneously hates herself for being evil and impure, yet also hates the world for treating her cruelly.
Compare that to me and Lelouch who only blame the world and thinks we are right in all things.
She caused all the death, but that is other peoples fault for messing so much with her.
Here I am not sure if Zouken or Kirei caused it all as both had reasons and will to do so. Perhaps both of them are to blame for this. They fought each other of course, but that does not mean both of them could not be bad guys simultaneously.
Kirei wanted to see people's misfortune.
Zouken wanted immortality.
Both messed with Sakura to get what they wanted. Good that both died in the end.
Then Shiro. All sort of bad things happen to him for no particular reason.
Also he is hard to relate as he is some sort of paragon of virtue and wants to save everyone for some reason. It is explained that he wants to be a hero like his dad wished for him, but that does not make it easier to relate to him.
That makes the whole movie also hard to relate.
Another dubious thing is that Rin and Illiya are all so eager to assist Shiro in the end. That makes me question their motivation for doing so? Or are girls just like that normally or something?
For example Fate/Zero is a proper battle royale where each side had their own wishes to be granted and wanted to win. They acted from this angle. Only one could win in the end but core premise is that that it is a competition between parties.
In contrast here it works completely different. As if one character is selected as main and everyone else then act as a support for them. In Heaven's Feel it is probably Sakura. While other characters have their emotions and sometimes do dubious things, in the end they all just go and sacrifice everything for Sakura.
I wonder if in other routes Saber and Rin get similar treatment. Though I am not too inclined to check UBW since Rin and Archer of F/SN do not particularly appeal to me.
Or is it that everything is wrapped around Shiro's wishes and it is only because he is so altruistic that his own fate ends up kind of fucked up?
The ending is too sad for Shiro. He saved Sakura but kind of died and get reincarnated as doll.
Does he gets that kind of shit because he is so altruistic or because scrip-writers are mean people?
The Shiro's fate kind of spoils my overall perception of this show.
Finally score breakdown:
First move is 8.0, may be 7.8 out of 10, there were things besides Sakura's submissiveness that spoil it somewhat.
Second something like 7.2 out of 10
Third only 6.5 out of 10
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