What I found in turn was something below the expectations. The plot was extremely awkward, to say the least. As for Ryuuzetsu, I didnt feel a connection to her character whatsoever. She was pretty much just that girl in the background. The action was flimsy, and could have used some improvement.
Yeah that comes pretty close to my reaction, the filmed script was just a big bunch of nothing. I felt like I pretty much completely wasted my time watching that movie, I was disgusted. The only part that I found decently done was the part with the fake Naruto in Kumo. Even the dramatic ending with the canon characters involvement was very poorly written in the filmed script. In contrast Lost Tower was actually decent in the scenes with canon characters, not just the scenes with Yamato, Sai, Naruto and Sakura, but Naruto with Minato, Yamato with young Kakashi, etc... the story with the filler characters was pretty cliched, but at least most of it wasn't crashingly dull like Blood Prison's filmed script was. The filmed script of Blood Prison was on the level of bad of the dreadful Bonds, plus the whole long prison section was dull as hell. Kishimoto must have been really disgusted too by the poor quality of the filmed version of Blood Prison since he's gone to the still unusual action of getting directly involved with the next movie- Road to Ninja. The dreadfulness of Bonds apparently must have inspired his slight involvement with Will of Fire- which has been the best of the released Naruto movies, so as long as Kishimoto stays closely involved with Road to Ninja it should be quite good.
But did anyone notice that this movie felt like it didn't belong to the series? Or is it just me?
That's another problem with Blood Prison, in the filmed script very little of the canon characters characterization was anywhere in line with Kishimoto's canon characterization. It was actually even worse than Bonds on that score, at least in Bonds it was just Naruto that was way off (and in Sasuke's short appearance he was way off for his part 2 characterization, Pierrot basically wrote him like part 1 Sasuke. It just seemed too off, and was a rather painfully obvious insert for sales.) Blood Prison was an animated movie with a character named Naruto who looked like Kishimoto's Naruto and some characters who were named and looked like Kishimoto's characters but the characterization was so far off from Kishimoto's that I can't call it a Naruto movie because the Pierrotization was so bad... Bonds started off okay characterization wise, then went to hell in a handbasket on Naruto's charaterization. The plot was bad from opening scene...
To my knowledge, there were quite a few NS moments in the novel, but the animators switched it all around.
Certainly there is a strong and well written Naruto and Sakura interaction at the end of the novel. Kishimoto and his friend cowrote the novelization based on the first script, which Pierrot faked him out and "switched it all around" for the dreadful filmed script.
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