

Despite starting off with an intriguing dilemma and some strong anti-war messaging, All You Need Is Kill increasingly struggles to decide what exactly it actually wants to be about. Over time, it devolves into a rather generic power fantasy with a relatively meaningless twist at the end. More than anything, I'm just disappointed that this is all there is to the story, because it feels like a ton of wasted potential. At least the English translation is pretty good.
Despite starting off with an intriguing dilemma and some strong anti-war messaging, All You Need Is Kill increasingly struggles to decide what exactly it actually wants to be about. Over time, it devolves into a rather generic power fantasy with a relatively meaningless twist at the end. More than anything, I'm just disappointed that this is all there is to the story, because it feels like a ton of wasted potential. At least the English translation is pretty good.