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Great Pretender: Razbliuto gives the charming heist anime a fitting epilogue
09.01.2024 - 17:16 / polygon.com
Of all the predictions I could have made for 2024, a feature-length movie follow-up to 2020’s chaotic, vivid anime series Great Pretender certainly wasn’t one of them. The 23-episode heist comedy series, directed by Hiro Kaburagi (91 Days, Speed Grapher) and written by screenwriter Ryōta Kosawa, made a splash when it premiered on Netflix, earning its way onto best-of-the-year lists with its colorful characters and striking art direction. After nearly three years of silence, the series is returning with an all-new adventure playing in select American theaters only on Jan. 9 and 10, ahead of the Feb. 23 Japanese premiere.
[Ed. note: Minor spoilers ahead for Great Pretender’s final cliffhanger and Great Pretender: Razbliuto’s opening beat.]
The movie, Great Pretender: Razbliuto picks up shortly after the post-credits cliffhanger at the end of the original series, and centers on Dorothy, the former lover of series protagonist Laurent Thierry. A mysterious master conwoman and recovering amnesiac, previously thought to have been killed off the coast of Shanghai and now living under the name Xiang Xiang Li, Dorothy was rescued at sea and is now living as the adopted daughter of an elderly couple in Taipei City with no memory of her previous life.
When she crosses paths with Jay, the charismatic underboss of a local crime syndicate, his employers learn about her existence. They suspect Dorothy is the same woman who successfully conned them several years prior, and they want revenge. With nowhere else to go, Dorothy must rely on the aid of Jay and his partner Yang to elude her would-be captors, all while tracking down leads pertaining to her own mysterious past.
If you haven’t already watched Great Pretender — or you’re someone like me who hasn’t thought about or revisited the series since it premiered on Netflix in 2020 — you might be a bit lost watching Great Pretender: Razbliuto. The film is essentially a feature-length epilogue to the series, tying off the outstanding cliffhanger of Dorothy surviving her fateful encounter with Liu Xiao of the Shanghai Longhu-bang syndicate. The film certainly benefits from a recent viewing of the series, particularly in the ways it renders the emotional parallels between Dorothy and Jay and her past relationship with Laurent, as well as her general philosophy toward life before and after losing her memory.
Audiences looking for an explicit reprise of the original anime’s con job, with Dorothy in a role equivalent to Laurent’s, may be left frustrated. Split between roughly four episodic segments, Great Pretender: Razbliuto is more of a convoluted mystery adventure with slapstick elements than a story about a single elaborate heist. There is a con job at one point in the
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