IDontRideBarrels
Overall this is a fairly mediocre film. It's short, under 80 minutes, so it's not a waste of time even if you hate it. Dead Space: Downfall is much better even though it's 3 years older. The plot is more cohesive and so is the animation style, a very important aspect.While there can be some complaints about the plot in Aftermath (mostly regarding repetition), it's reasonably decent, and the biggest complaint is the visual aspect. The film is divided into multiple parts and each is made differently - some with 2D animation and some with 3D animation. The 3D is completely awful despite the lighting (inexcusably worse than cutscenes from some PS1 games) and the 2D is weird in the last portion (not objectively BAD, but the style isn't fitting and heavily conflicts with previous sections). Most people would probably rate this as a 7 or 8 if Aftermath used the first part's 2D animation throughout.If you're a fan of Dead Space it's probably worth watching Aftermath, but I wouldn't recommend it; I'd recommend Downfall instead. It's not amazing, but it's much better than Aftermath in all aspects.
Paul Magne Haakonsen
Not being familiar with any of the "Dead Space" games, or the first animated movie, I have nothing to compare this to, so this is all by what I thought of this 2011 animation."Dead Space: Aftermath" had a nice enough story and it was easy to follow. The story is about a small group of four survivors who are rescued after a tragic occurrence, but now they have to tell their stories to people who seem to have little regards for their well-being. As I said, not being familiar with anything prior to this animated movie, then I have no idea how true or far from the original plot lines this movie is. The storyline was nice and well told.However, the solid storyline was brought down tremendously as they had opted to use various styles of animation and art styles. Most of these, sadly enough, were not in my personal liking, and thus it brought down the enjoyment of the movie for me. Especially the CGI animation, that was just horrendous. It looked like it was released before they had applied the finishing touches to it. In my opinion, then "Dead Space: Aftermath" would have fared better had they opted to stay with just one style of art and animation (in my opinion, the style they used when they were telling doctor Cho's story).As for the voice acting, well then I think they really did manage to put together a good group of people for the voice acting. So that was really working out well for the movie.I am sure that this 2011 animated movie is a great thing for fans of the games, but it failed to fully ensnare and captivate me. I am giving "Dead Space: Aftermath" a 5/10 rating because of the story alone, the different art styles and animation styles was the knife that killed it off for me.
alonso_dz
It's hard for me to understand why this movie has so bad reviews. After watching Downfall, I watched Aftermath with many reserves. But... I was gladly surprised! It is true that the CGI segments were the worse part of it, but the structure of this film is very much like the short "Have I Got a Story For You" from Batman: Gotham Knight, where you get to see the same story from different perspectives, all of them animated by different studios. And all of them were really good! The characters are well defined, and they have more believable motivations. Overall, the film lets us understand much better the story connecting the space monsters and the Marker (monolith).The story is so much more consistent than it is on Downfall. I really think all the video game fans should at least give it a try.
Criticman12
Dead Space: Aftermath, is a prequel to, Dead Space 2, and a sequel to, Dead Space: Downfall.The story is about a group of survivors that are taken in and interrogated where people want to know about the artifact they discovered.The voice acting and the 2D animation were good. But everything else, was bad.The CG animation was terrible, the story wasn't that good and the movie was mostly boring.In the end, you're better off playing the video game's or watching, Dead Space: Downfall.
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