Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
SPOILERS AHEAD OF COURSE, DUMMY
I really like this movie. Â I think it balances well the acts of being an epilogue to established characters/events from a series, as well as introducing new things that stand alone.
After watching Al as a skilled but lumbering piece of armor through the majority of the series, it's a real kick to see him in human form and retrained, busting loose on enemies without transmutation circles and dressed much like his brother.
I am also a bit of a sucker for both the concepts of parallel worlds as well as historical fiction taken in fantastical directions, so this movie scratched those itches.
One disappointment I have is that this is the end of this particular continuity of Fullmetal Alchemist. Â I've heard it said that the folks behind it say the story is finished, BUT this movie really does leave a big thing open. Â At the end Ed and Al say they're going to have to get rid of that uranium bomb that came through from their world earlier. Â I think the story of these two now COMPLETELY locked in this world and having to manage this without alchemy would be something very different than seen before.