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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.

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Naruto Shippuden The Movie: Bonds (2008) Movie Review

93 min
Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Writer: Junki Takegami

Plot: A mysterious group of ninja called the Sora-nin from the Sky Country makes a surprise attack on Konoha. This is because Konoha nearly destroyed the Sky Country during the last Shinobi World War, yet they survived and now they're after Konoha and the Fire Country for revenge.

This is the second movie in the Naruto Shippuden series, and while I liked the first one I was hoping the second one would be on par with the last movie. Its not, for the most part at least. While its not as good, and in a sense feels like a step down in quality its does for the most part work out to be a pretty good movie.

The movie starts as Konoha is attack by a mysterious country from the sky and the Leaf Village is fighting them off. Meanwhile in the chaos of the village Naruto save a man from the reckage and is helped by a docter Shinnō. We later find out that the doctor could by the reason why the village is being attacked. So the fifth Hokage Tsunade assigns Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata to help protect the Docter and his apprentice Amaru get to their village to help stop this attack.

Meanwhile we have a side plot following Sasuke, at the time of the story, Orochimaru is sick and is in need of docter, at that docter happens to be Shinnō who Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata are helping to protect. Its not as important as the main story and could of easily be taken out of the movie. It feels like its only put in here so fans can have Sasuke in a Naruto movie.

The plot of the story is straight forward until about the half way point where it does kinda take a spin where we find out who the actual villain of the movie is, but after that it goes back to be a straightforward action movie. The fight scenes aren't anything that special and later we do get a sorta team up with both Naruto and Sasuke and its nice to see but it only somthing meant the movie and means nothing else.

Overall I feel like this movie is just a filler movie, it has moments that feel like the stakes should be high but it ends up not being all that serious. Adding Sasuke to the movie felt like something they only did to please the fans, and he really doesn't serve much of a purpose nor is he in the movie all that much at all. I do recommend this movie but I wouldn't put this at the top of the list of Naruto movies to see.

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