Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others. This was a wonderful conclusion to the genre. Shinichi who finally realized his role as the bridge between species has been freed. Migi who relied on his humanity to understand of what it is to be human gave his host that drive to continue on without him. Between his new found freedom was also the enforcer who only wanted his people to rule our world without humans to bar their way. Except the only person who started to feel any emotion was his commander Takiyama. Birthing a son using a human body gave Takiyama the notion that not all of their instincts contained the lust to kill.<br/><br/>Experimenting on her own so that she could realize just how important life really is also freed her from the confines of their brutal instincts. Knowing full well that she, and her own people could break the bonds of their past, and move on co-existing within society meant more to her, than her own life and she proved it by sacrificing her own life to protect her child.<br/><br/>This was a great ending to one of the most successful series to come out of Japan. Parasyte created a new avenue to the human condition that not all creatures in this vast universe succumbs to basic instincts to exist although some in this film stuck to that emotional baggage not being able to let go of the past. Evolution always wins no matter how technologically advanced or how rudimentary flawed the race is. Shinichi along with Migi helped stop the needless violence, and carnage Takiyama sought for. Wonderful music, action, effects, and talented actors all around.<br/><br/>The plot, theme and flavor left me quite satisfied as far as the tale unfolded just like the television series did in anime form. It was a fantastic adaptation from beginning with the first movie to the second and opened up to a possible third instalment. Maybe. For now any fan who watches the series will enjoy these films. You will not be disappointed. Highly recommended for anime fans alike. Not advisable for those under the age of seventeen. Very graphic, and gory. This was always a single movie, they just released it in two parts. But while the first part went quickly over the events that set up the arrival of the aliens and presented the main characters, thus compressing a lot of the original manga/anime story, this part loses the pace and gets to have a few boring scenes. They are mostly flashbacks and emotional explanations of what the characters felt (even if it was quite obvious from their actions and they were dying :) ), but still, a little jarring. I think a better edit of the material would have created a nice two hours and a half single movie that didn't suffer from pacing issues.<br/><br/> That being said, the movie ends well, with too little of Gotou, one of the more interesting characters in the story, but with great development for all the others. Maybe except Satomi Murano, who was always the damsel in distress and not doing very much. I recommend this movie to sci fi fans from all over. While the philosophical speeches increase in number in this part, I still think Parasyte is a good sci-fi horror movie that needs more recognition.
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