My apologies that my review is a day late. My internet died on Sunday... It is fixed now. So here it is, a rather messy, yet complete, review of Evangelion 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance.

At first I was not impressed at all by the movie. It was just a recap of older episodes. There is, at the very beginning, a fight between an angel and a rather cute and funny girl that pilots EVA-05 & speaks English. She pilots Unit-05 (an American model, I believe). We won't see her until again until later on in the movie. However, as the movie pressed onward, I got hooked. It was not quite as addictive as End of Evangelioni, but as whole the movie was very addictive (and sad).

Toward the beginning, Commander Ikari and his right hand (I forget his name) head into space. They are orbiting the moon and who do they see? Why they see Kaoru, of course! He then jumps into an angel and slowly heads toward Earth. This angel is the ultimate; his AT field is unstoppable.

Later on, Rei gets wooed over by Shinji. She then wants to throw a dinner party for all of the Eva pilots and Commander Ikari. For the first time, you see Rei show a hint of emotion . Unfortuantely, the date of her party is the day Asuka has training exercises. It also happens to be the day that Auska has training exercises; an angel-emergency pops up that day as well.

Shinji and his father have another fight. He refuses to fight another Eva (the EVA that Asuka is in has turned into an angel); he then threatens Eva HQ. After all of this, he walks away. Asuka has a mental breakdown in her fight with an angel. This is where the movie gets gorey... Asuka gets into another EVA and attempts to fight this angel. The angel dismantles Asuka's EVA and eats the entry plug... no more Asuka. Shortly thereafter, Shinji returns with the help of the mystery girl and fights what Kaoru jumped into at the beginning of the movie. Rei jumps into Unit-00 with no rifle and she charges right into the angel form of Kaoru. She becomes absorbed Here are a few screencaps.



After all of this, we are visited by the dreaded THIRD IMPACT... Shinji reaches into the ulitmate angel's AT-Field and gets torn to pieces. He managed to merge with Rei and the Third Impact ensues. Boy howdy the world is a mess. Bottom line is... shitty movie opening; beautiful ending.

I would rate this movie: 7.2/10