Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door goes unnoticed too often, even though it boasts some of the best action scenes ever put to screen.
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door – or "The Movie" outside Japan – is an underrated work of art only marred by a few narrative blemishes. The fact it doesn't appear in conversations about the series shouldn't be taken as a sign that the film was a disaster. While it doesn't hit the same emotional highs as the TV show's best episodes, the movie does deliver some of the best action scenes in animated history.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While it's easy to disregard the movie as a quick tie-in to bring in a few extra dollars out of the Cowboy Bebop anime, thinking it's sloppy or uninspired would be a disservice to both. The movie, created by staff from Sunrise, Bones, and Bandai Visual, is bursting with quality visuals. Its only weakness is a plot that lacks the same charisma and imagination that the original TV series had in spades.
Sadly, the plot of the film, while serviceable, doesn't leave much of an impression. The original anime's episodes possessed some truly outrageous sci-fi ideas; from monkey-creating viruses, clown-clad assassins, and a high stakes battle for a hyper-intelligent corgi. The movie's terrorist plot, by comparison, lacks any sort of eccentricities, and even feels out of place for how rote its killer gas is, simply dropping bodies without any usual Bebop fanfare.
As a result, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is an understated show of style over substance, with hundreds of frames of slick animation dedicated to a few jaw-dropping minutes of fights and long tours of Mars that isn't able to really sell its high-stakes plot as something signature to its world, or as something worth remembering. While the TV series could sell its low-key crime adventures, the movie's conspiracy-thriller feels generic.
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