Naruto Shippuden The Movie: The Will of Fire (2009) Movie Review

 

96 min 

Director:Masahiko Murata

Writer: Junki Takegami  

Plot: Ninjas with bloodline limits begin disappearing in all the countries and blame points toward the fire nation. By Tsunade's order, Kakashi is sacrificed to prevent an all out war. Naruto fights through friends and foes to prevent his death.

The third Naruto Shippuden Movie primary focuses on our main characters and Kakashi. Similar to the Last movie Bonds, the village and the other countries are about to go to war due to a secret villain that threatens the land. 

To prevent this war from happening Kakashi plans to sacrifice himself in order to save everyone. Even the Hokage goes along with his plan and accepts it. So when Kakashi uncontrollably leaves the village no one tries to stop him except for Naruto. But when Naruto finds out from the Hokage that Kakashi willingly accepted this plan, he and Sakura go alone to try and rescue him,

Of course they are reprocussions for going alone and disobeying the Hokage's order, so all their other comrades must go and stop them from trying to rescue Kakashi. The set up is definitly a different direction then we have seen from other movies and even the TV show. We get to see most of the character on the opposite side of Naruto and Sakura and seeing them battle and trying to get away from them while trying to rescue Kakashi does make it pretty tense. 

The Main villain does have henchmen that try to stop Naruto and Sakura from reaching Kakashi, but most of them ending have to fight the ones after Naruto and Sakura. The main villain themselves aren't all that interesting nor in the movie all that much. The movies focus is primarily on the main Team 7 and the overall message of the movie.

The Will of Fire is much better than its previous movie, and because it has its focus on Team 7 and the other main character from the show, it does end up feeling more personal and more enjoyable.