Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 4
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Actor: Jessie Cody, Jim Byrnes, Lisa Ann Beley, Ted Cole, Tony AlcantarDirector: Gordon Hunt
Brand: Infinity
Writer: Rika Takahashi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bandai
Movie Reviews of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 4
Movie Review: The real story begins
Summary: 4 Stars
It's almost like the whole story up until now has just been a prologue. This volume starts with Zechs and Heero fighting a duel in Antarctica and takes off from there. After the intense duel Zechs allows himself to be captured and the Gundam pilots launch themselves back into space in an attempt to stop OZ, which is systematically taking over the colonies to use them as weapons factories the Gundams are insufficient to fight the new unmanned Mobile Doll mobile suits (which are faster than any human pilot could possibly be because they are computer-controlled). From here things get complicated. The breach between the power behind OZ (Roamafeller) and Treize Kushrenada, starts to make itself clear, and to please Treize, Zechs fights a huge army of enemy mobile suits rather than face a court-marshall. When he wins the battle, Zechs decides to break with OZ and his friend Treize and go into outer space to try to pursue peace there. In one of the craziest plot twists in anime history, Lady Une develops a split personality, one which desires peace in outer space and the other the same as we have seen from the beginning, a war-crazed psychopath. In outer space Duo gets captured, and Heero breaks him out. Then the engineers who built the Gundam also get captured, and heero moves to destroy both them and the mobile suits they have built for OZ. When he does, he is captured by none other than Trowa Barton, who has joined OZ (and destroyed the Gundam Deathsythe). There's lots more (Wu Fei's Gundam destroyed in his own assault, Heero's great speech to his new class on the first day of school in the Colony, Zechs meeting up with Howard, Relena's finding out that Zechs is her brother), but I guess crazy-dense plot is the biggest trademark of this series. Indeed, things are really starting to pick up.
Up until now the direction, music, animation, characerization, and plot have been good. But now they strangely all go up in quality all-at-once. Great use of musical cues, fluid, detailed, high-budget animation, great character moments (Zechs' cry of "Glory to all the colonies!" as he prepares to face OZ alone and let the Gundams escape), introduction of interesting new characters (Nicol who constantly is suspicious of Trowa and keeps trying to keep the crazed psycho Lady Une from disappearing because he loves her commanding presence and military agenda, and the slightly unhinged engineers who designed the Gundams), and fantastic new plot developments (the colonies siding with OZ and building weapons for them even as the Gundams have the colonies turn their backs on them) make this a true must-watch for any Mecha fan (and especially any Gundam fan).
I absolutely love this show, but the more I watch it the more I appreciate just how much this show improves as it continues, bringing up very interesting issues (the ethical dilemmas of unmanned weapons that kill without thought, building weapons to help your economy when they will be used to destroy other nations, how true peace can be achieved), the battles becoming more complex, and the characterization and plot growing more and more complex as the show progresses. Gundam Wing is a true classic, and it's hard not to see it if you watch the show through this point
Summary of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 4
Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 04/27/2004Feudal concepts of personal honor collide with cynical realpolitik as the 49-part saga of five heroic Mobile Suit pilots unfolds against the efforts of the Romefeller Foundation to control both Earth and the orbiting Space Colonies through their puppet military entity, OZ. After agonizing over the purity of their motives, Heero and Zechs duke it out in their Mobile Suits in the wastes of Antarctica. Relena arrives and denounces their duel as futile; she also discovers Zechs is really her long-lost brother. Zechs later loses his stylized helmet, which somehow shatters his bond to OZ leader Treize Marquis. Meanwhile, the merciless Lady Une instigates an elaborate scheme to convince the leaders of the Colonies that OZ has become a benevolent organization dedicated to peace. The leaders are taken in by her assumed charms and quickly fall into line with her plan. Une turns them against the Gundam Pilots and kidnaps the five mad scientist-engineers who created the Gundams. As prisoners, they're assigned to create even more powerful suits: Mercurius and Vayeate. Pilots Heero and Trowa use different strategies to infiltrate this operation and end up in direct conflict in a cliffhanger ending. Contains these episodes: 16. "The Sorrowful Battle," 17. "Betrayed by Home, Far Away," 18. "Tallgeese Destroyed," 19. "Assault on Barge," 20. "The Lunar Base Infiltration." Rated 13 and up for occasional profanity and violence, largely restricted to machines attacking each other. --Charles Solomon
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