Score: 9
"Wow! Another classic just like The Composer!"
date: March 13, 2006
With this, your most recent submission, you have set a new standard for yourself as an author. Now after this and the Composer, you are very respected as an artist. Many things are now expected of you, all of which are good. Your stories now must always be well developped, the length of your movies must always be as long as these were, and your movies now must be presented in this way "film noir". But this is definitely a good thing because every who has watched these two movies knows what youre clearly capable of. All of the aspects in this movie were just great, or sometimes better. Here is my review.
The graphics were filled with style and great moments in this movie. At first glance they are very impressive and almost perfect or as close as you can get to it. But when you break it down there are in fact some negatives, even if there is only a few here and there. The only negatives i could find when i paid close attention is sometimes the animation wasnt quite as fluent or clear as id like and what i mean by that is sometimes it looked as though some motions were skipped. An example of this is where the big saw Chillz with the money and he ran out of the hallway. And only occasionally the detail wasnt quite what id hoped it would be like the whole way through. Other than these there were only little flaws here and there. I loved the character design a lot, i admire an artist who can give away a part of their characters' personalities just by the way they look. The whole movie had a cool feel to it thanks to your animating style, which consisted of a dim purple glow it seemed in many of the scenes. The style was without a doubt the strongest and most prominent aspect in this movie. Your animating style was just a small fraction of the components that made up the perfect 10 i gave you for this aspect.
The feel you were able to create remained strong the whole way through. It definitely had that Film noir style i mentioned earlier as well as a very "jazzy" look and feel to it as well. This has not been done in any other movie i have ever seen on Newgrounds. This was not the only thing that made this movie extremely creative and original. The story was amazing, it was very similar to a real movie id say in the sense that it was very well developped, complex and had a good point to it. In other words it could pass for something made by a professional. The sound was also a very strong aspect in this movie. It was also very important to give the movie the feel it had. Its just a few sound effects were i guess a little awkward, again when Chillz had the money and bolted out of the hallway is an example. But the music was amazing. Very jazzy, very diverse and very cool!
Overall this was an amazing movie for a number of reasons. Despite its few flaws it came out very well and i as an author would be completely satisfied if i created this. As of now the score is definitely there to show with this truly deserves. I wouldnt be surprised to see this linger around the top 50 submissions for a very long time. Really nice job!
-Two Thumbs Way Up! 5/5