10 Worst Netflix Movies
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
There has yet to be an unironically, un-asterisk, capital G Good movie based on Hiromu Arakawa's steampunk fantasy masterwork, and this movie is perhaps the worst of the three attempts so far.
Everything about this movie screams cheap. in the year 2017, it should not be hard to make "magically moving rocks" look even somewhat convincing, but at no point do you buy the alchemy in this movie, and even Alphonse, who is made of reflective metal that CGI is known for pulling off flawlessly, looks the most fake of them all.
But even beyond that, the story is condensed and shoehorned into a timeframe it was never meant for, which wouldn't be a problem, if it wasn't obvious from minute one that the studio mandated mission statement for this movie was to include as many Iconic moments from the original story as possible.
What results is a clumsy, transparently corporate, incoherent mess that will leave non-fans confused and fans INFURIATED. Avoid this movie like it's radioactive.