Let's just start with the bad wigs. Or bad acting. Or bad writing. Lust should be beautiful, dark and deadly. The actress left a lot to be desired in aesthetics. Someone decent special effects. Winry seems Iike a drunk Kardashian not an overzealous teenage girl obsessed with her work and secretly in love with Ed. Very overdramatic. Now adding in that I've seen both series and read the manga, the stories have to be rushed because of time restraints. Not sure why they changed things here and there, maybe for a more dramatic effect and to tie in plot as much as possible. They wasted a lot of time trying to be cute. Why? It's a dark, sad story teaching them to be strong. The music sounds like it's from a Disney movie. FMA is not a happy, cute or funny story. It's like they tried to make the entire thing light hearted. For anyone who knows the series that's just not a smart idea. Honestly, for anyone, don't waste your time. It's like Brotherhood Cliff Notes made on a very low budget with a Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. Watch the anime series. Definitely worth the extra time. The movie is just plain awful.

This wasn't the worst thing in the world but it wasn't the best either. It wasn't horrible but I wasn't impressed. They managed to hit some story right but I don't know what happened after the first half. Things got confusing. However, the cgi was amazing. I really liked the fighting scene in the beginning with Edward and the Priest and the fight between Lust and Roy. The cast was alright for me but they didn't really make me emotional on some heartbreaking scenes. I don't know if it was just because I didn't get attach to them given the limited time that the movie had. The cinematography was beautiful. I did not like that there were vital characters that were missing like Armstrong and Scar. Overall, I did not hate this adaptation but not really going to push others to watch it.

Watch the anime full metal alchemist brotherhood. There is a reason it has such a high rating. This movie was just terrible compared, It's missing everything that really makes the original good.

I grew up as a hardcore FMA fan, so this was something I had to see. I don't have high expectations of live action movies, because they can't quite grasp the effects of an anime, but when it came to character appearances of a European-setting with an all Asian cast, they did pretty well. I was pretty disappointed on the emotion of this movie, it wasn't nearly as moving as the anime, I feel like rather than almost following the original script with slight little plot twists, the story should have been written on a small segment of Ed and Al's journey, it wouldn't have been as rushed and they could focus on details. I think Ed's character was decent, yet he wasn't as loud, rebellious, and mouthy as the anime version, he was too serious most of the time. Al felt really distant as a character, and when it came to characters like Mustang, there was a lost connection. It would have been nice to see more action too, at least have an actor or stunt double that knows martial arts to play in the fight scenes, that would have helped liven it up. Overall this movie was better than I anticipated, yet there were a lot of holes in the story, if they were filled/changed it would have been fantastic.