Maya Fey served as more of a support in and out of court than she did in the games.The trump card she mentions at the beginning isn’t referenced again until the exact moment Wright needs it the most at the end of the last trial. Mia Fey’s appearances where brief though I’d say the actress did an excellent job.Unlike Wright you didn’t see alot of his courtroom mannerisms from the game though the charisma was definitely there. Miles Edgeworth’s personality was there.Even though the senior Edgeworth lost he was able to prove Von Karma forged evidence during the trial. In the games the only person who got close was Gregory Edgeworth (Miles Edgeworth’s father). As Edgeworth indicated no one in their right mind would willingly face Von Karma in court expecting to win. The look was fine and his skills in the court were impressive to say the least. Now, since I know some of you are gonna wanna know how the characters in the movie were in comparison to the games, I’ll break it down: Hopefully they can bring Justice For All, Trials & Tribulations and possibly even Apollo Justice to the big screen. Hollywoodhad its chance and thankfullt Capcom went with a Japanese studio for the live action movie. There are two moments from the movie I don’t think I’ll ever forget.Īll I can say to the production team is WELL DONE. Even after Wright proves his guilt in the DL-6 Case Von Karma walks out of the courtroom under his own power.įor the purposes of the movie the changeup worked. For every move Wright makes Von Karma is always a step ahead of him. The actor playing Von Karma just sells it. With a little help from Mia (being channeled by Maya) Wright solves the case only unlike in the game White doesn’t deny to the end.Ĭase 1-4: The main event. In fact the Gatewater Hotel is not even mentioned. Unlike the game April May and Marvin Grossberg (and references to them) don’t appear in the movie. We also get to see some channeling action from Maya during the trial. Again, the case is solved by the time the scene happens.Ĭase 1-2: The Ace Attorney and The King of Prosecutors face off in court at last. Edgeworth is the prosecutor against an unnamed public defender. The confetti after the Not Guilty was an AWESOME touch as was Frank Sahwit throwing his wig at Wright’s face just like he does in the game.Ĭase 1-3: Same as above only Wright is not there. Mia literally walks in and solves the case for Wright. I’ll break this down by case in the order they were done in the movie.Ĭase 1-1: More or less skipped to the end of the trial. Only read on if you don’t mind being spoiled. Even so the movie struck that balance between being recognizable to fans of the source game and telling a damned good story.īefore I continue the rest of this review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for events from cases 2 through 4 of the game as well as the movie. You could obviously tell certain parts–specifically at the beginning–were rushed. The time constraints of turning it into a movie is the main reason I didn’t give it a perfect 10. I’ll do things backwards and give this the rating first: 8/10. Someone did upload the full movie with English subtitles, though (Turn CC on): As of this writing there is no English dub official or otherwise. To my fellow Ace Attorney Fans: In case you’ve been living under a rock and/or missed my panel at Anime Boston, a movie adaptation of the first four cases in the first Ace Attorney game was released last year. Like the one I did for Wreck-It Ralph this one’s exceptional. For the second time in this blog’s history I am posting a movie review.
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