The live-action reimagining of Masami Kurumada’s revered manga 'Saint Seiya' is a below-average action fantasy made on an insufficient budget that will satisfy neither fans nor newcomers.
“Knights of the Zodiac,” a 2023 live-action reimagining of Masami Kurumada’s revered manga “Saint Seiya” and an anime series, procures plenty of recognizable elements from the original iterations. But based on a screenplay by a trio of Western writers and directed by Polish filmmaker Tomasz Bagiński, it quickly stumbles into narrative contrivances as it incessantly overworks certain emotional beats.
“Saint Seiya” is merely the latest, though far from the last, victim of these ambitions. First published in Japan between 1986 and 1990, the mythology-laden saga tells of the adolescent heroes, each donned with a mystical armor representing a constellation, chosen to protect the reincarnation of the Greek goddess Athena and humanity from other deities.
Still, as Seiya, a young man destined to become the brave Pegasus Knight and the protagonist of this entire legend, Japanese American actor Mackenyu occasionally does capture the cheekily presumptuous personality of the character and later his unwavering allegiance to Sienna , the flesh-and-blood goddess of wisdom and war.
Instead, the filmmakers behind this subpar reinterpretation take major creative liberties to ground their plot in “logical” reality via the plan that Kido’s ex-wife, Guraad , executes to capture Sienna and prevent her from fully transitioning into her godly form. Guraad has Nero , the Phoenix Knight, and street fighter Cassios on her side to defeat Seiya. Sienna’s fear of not being able to control her own power, manifested in dodgy CGI-heavy nightmares, adds to the trouble.
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