Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

danishalishimajiri Big fan of Gundam series and couldn't believe they actually made such a horrible movie from such an epic Japanese animated title. Story is rubbish and the "Gundam" action and design were amateur at bests. This movie is an insult to all Gundam fans and I feel sorry for those whose first experience watching Gundam was this movie. Do not waste your time watching this movie and an advice to the makers of the movie, please watch the original series (out of many) and try to understand the concept of Gundam. If you want to remake Japanese classic animation series into a movie then please stick to power rangers which is FYI also horrible. Don't waste your time watching this movie even if someone offers it for free.

xamtaro A month ago, I found G-Savior DVD in the "2nd hand" product bin at my local video store. It was really cheap so despite having read so many angry fan ravings about how terrible G-savior was, I bought it, watched it, and was pleasantly surprised by it.After seeing so many angry fan ravings about how terrible this attempt at a live action Gundam movie was, I decided to check it out myself out of curiosity, and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. G-Savior is not the most impressive looking live action adaptation but it is definitely not "crap" or "an obscenity". Among direct-to-DVD movies, G-Savior is possibly the best of the bunch. Though it pales in comparison with big screen blockbuster movies, such a thing is expected seeing as G-Savior's budget was only slightly less than 9 million dollars. The story starts of with a great premise. The year is Universal Century 223 and the various Space Colonies have proudly let go of their colonial past and now consider themselves independent "Settlements". The ruling government of earth known as CONSENT once again seeks to bring the outlying colonies under its control and does so by creating a food shortage in the colonies. In that way, the colonies now depend on CONSENT for food hence giving the earth total economic control over the space settlements. Enter Ex-CONSENT mobile suit pilot Mark Curran who, while peacefully working as a mobile suit operator for an underwater research facility, is swept up into the war when "terrorists" attack the facility and steal a top secret research project that may be able to solve the food crisis and break the earth's economic stranglehold on the colonies. In a crisis of conscience, Mark makes the decision to help the colonies, much to the displeasure of his former CONSENT commander Jack Halle, who has been tasked with eliminating this rebel faction. Shocking twists reveal a hidden conspiracy as Mark Curran must once again take up arms against a powerful enemy despite his past traumatic experience in space combat.For a low budget direct-to-DVD movie, G-savior actually looks very good when compared to other 1999/2000 movies, but pales very much in comparison to other giant robot movies such as Transformers or Matrix, especially in the special effects department.The computer generated graphics used for space vessels, the various mechs, the G-savior tend to clash in the most obvious ways with the live action footage thanks to some off key lighting and the unrealistically blocky designs. It felt like watching two different shows; a sci/fi TV drama inter-cut with footage from video game cut-scenes. At least they tried to make the mobile suits move realistically as opposed to lightning fast movements of the mecha in the anime. One would normally forgive a movie's sub-par graphics and special effects in view of its low budget, but this movie's acting is really hit or miss. I had no problems with a Caucasian cast (after all, most Gundam characters had western names and facial body features), but only a handful of them manage to deliver good performances. Aside from the main characters like Mark Curran, Cynthia Graves and Jack Halle, the rest of the actors sound about as good as characters in a bad Saturday morning cartoon. The greatest crime of this movie is the action, or rather, lack of action. Almost an hour passes before the viewer gets his first dose of Mobile Suit mecha combat. Before that, the whole show plays out like a pilot episode for some boring TV drama series. Overall, the story is good; the plot was interesting and managed to incorporate a number of political themes, a staple in the Gundam stories. The action scenes are few and far in between, but when they do come they come in hard and fast. The final battle is definitely a well earned payoff for sitting through the horrible pacing in the first hour; Epic in scale and truly a spectacle to behold.G-savior is not as terrible as so many people claim but it does have its flaws. It has an excellent story with a couple of good plot twists, a well developed main character that really grows on you as the show moves along and some intense action sequences coupled with a grand sweeping film score composed John Debeney(who also composed for The Scorpion King and The Passion of Christ). Too bad the acting was such a mixed bag, the CGI effects were disappointing and the production values were so low.Gundam fans would no doubt feel let down that this was not the big budget blockbuster that they fantasized a Gundam live action movie would be. I personally enjoyed G-Savior for what it was, not what people expected it to be. It is highly entertaining and one of the best, though low budgeted, direct-to-DVD movies around nowadays.

Daniel Maze As an avid Gundam fan, I have seen a huge amount of the great mecha saga, but this one was the only entry in the Gundam canon which left me disappointed. My opinion, in a nutshell, was that the story didn't really work as a Gundam title, the characters were bland, stereotypical, and didn't draw me into the story, which was aided by substandard acting, and what might be my biggest problem with the movie, was that the mech action was nowhere near as good as the other series'. The mobile suits don't really enter into the story until, literally, the last 20 minutes of the movie, and though the CGI was beautiful, and the MS were very well designed, they moved in a slow, and awkward manner, and if that were any indicator, they could've been out maneuvered by a Zaku II. (which is over 140 years older) Of course some could argue that Gundam 0080 had about the same story/action ratio, but 0080 had extremely deep characters, and a much better story to back them up. So, if you're an avid fan who has to see EVERYTHING there is to see in the Gundam universe, feel free to check this flick out, but to everyone else, I can see no reason to watch it. Then again, I have of heard of people who have enjoyed the movie, so I guess its probably hit or miss.

cra5h_0v3r1d3 So I'm a huge Gundam fan. I collect all means of Gundam media. I have DVDs unreleased DVDs and VCDs and if I see a Gundam model I don't have I buy 2 so I can paint 1 and put the other away. I feel the original "Mobile Suit: Gundam" movie seris was the best and probably always will be. But I saw this thing and had to pick it up and buy it because it's Gundam. I didn't even look at the back to notice that it had actual people in it. I figured it was just some cheasy CGI thing that was whatever... Point is... I got it home and put it in... the image was sooooo grainy and dark (to hide how crapy the CGI looked) and the acting was so awful that I just started to zone out and I seriously fell asleep. The volume on the DVD fluctiates so much that the end battle scene is booming loud and woke me up. I saw the crappy crappy effects and I just pulled it out and said "OH MY GOD!!! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE!!!". Gundam is one of the biggest anime franchises ever and if they wanted to be serious they should have spoken to some one about making a large budget film that would be awesome. Made for TV movies pretty much always suck, but I've seen way better effects... that one person that posted they liked the effects has never seen Merlin from 1998 or from Earth to the Moon from 1998 or... hell... anyhthing... ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN THIS... WATCH ANY FILM AND IT WILL BE BETTER THAN THIS!!! it's terrrible... ok... I've ranted enough... Bandai should just talk to Sony or something and make a huge large 100 million dollar film or make 3... I don't care... I'll watch it... just as long as its better than this.. OHHH! if you want large robots and people... rent ROBO JOCKS from back in the eighties... way cooler. Peace out