When we finally do get to see them, we get the same treatment of what the tv series did. All this time the heroes are not even seen or heard of. All we see is the villains slowly doing their thing and plotting to kill a priestess. And here is what I mean in detail.The first quarter of the movie is nothing but a silly build up without any actual depth. Just like the second part of the main series, it starts with a bang which promises to be super awesome, only to quickly disappoint you with its juvenile gimmicks and messy storyboard. So yeah, on paper this sounds to be by far the best movie so far… And sadly it ain’t.Although it looks spectacular and exciting on a superficial level, the directing is bad, many things make no sense, and there are major power level inconsistencies.

You no longer feel like it is the tale of a boy trying to live by and be accepted in a rough world, but a bunch of clowns goofing around in a poor attempt to keep us interested.

The first was memorable for the movie gimmick, the second for the weird blend of cultures, but this one is a complete joke. They even went as far as throwing in a vision from the future, where Naruto gets killed and they keep insisting his fate can’t be altered. Thus we get the team having to escort a young snotty girl with a tragic past (again) and fight their way through villains who want to get their hands on something that will help them rule the world (again). They even combined the best elements of the first and second movies (disregarding the third as a complete joke) in an attempt to offer the best possible movie-based plot the setting can offer. The characters are older, more powerful, more mature, the stakes are up, the action is better, and the pastures are greener hereon. And indeed, both the series and the movie feel like they are trying to convince you that the show is back on track, better than ever. In an attempt to make the old fans return as well as gaining new audience, they poured a lot of money into making both the first dozen episodes of Shippuden, as well as this movie, to look as slick as possible. This is the fourth Naruto movie, made after the horrible fillers were over and the franchise returned back to being good for awhile.

Naruto blood prison opening scene