Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation

Summary

A mecha film held back by weak writing and pacing. The rushed feeling is exasperated by the fact that many important story beats happen during mecha fighting scenes (in both movie and show), and when you only have 1/3 of the allottet time, that means that nearly every scene revolves around some big action scene, without any of the inbetween politics/planning that is needed to be more varied, to give more weight to the battles themselves, and also so that the dramatic curve doesn't always have a single state.