Detective Conan: Movie 3

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Name: Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of The Century 名探偵コナン 世紀末の魔術師
Parent Story: Detective Conan (Case Closed)


Status: Completed
Episode: Movie

Release date (for eng sub): -
Release date (in Japan): 17 April 1999 


Summary: 

Kaitou Kid sends a riddle, warning of another heist. The police deduce that his next target is a recently discovered Fabergé egg belonging to Nicholas II of Russia, which is to be displayed in the Suzuki Modern Art Museum in Osaka on August 22. The night of the heist, Kid successfully steals the egg and flies off with it, and Conan tenaciously chases after him with Heiji. However, in the middle of the chase, Kid is shot in the right eye by an unknown assailant and apparently falls into the sea to his death. After recovering the egg, the police fruitlessly search for Kid's body. The next day, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro board a boat to Tokyo. They meet Natsumi Kousaka, whose great-grandfather worked in Fabergé's factory. She shows them a part of a sketch of two eggs and a key, which were found among her late grandmother's momentos. That night, Ryu Sagawa, a freelance photographer covering the press with news of the egg, is murdered, shot in the right eye in the same fashion as Kid. Conan later conclude that the culprit is Scorpion - a mysterious killer who always shoots his victims in the right eye. 

They then head towards Yokosuka Castle, the location of Scorpion's next target: the second egg. While exploring the castle, the group stumbles across secret passages beneath the castle. As they traverse the tunnel, Inui, an art dealer, sees a shadowy figure in one direction of the tunnels, and in his pursuit, he is shot by a silenced handgun. Delving farther into the tunnel, they find a coffin with a corpse clutching the second egg. Suddenly, the two eggs are snatched away. Conan deduces that Scorpion is Seiran the historian. She shoots her victims in the right eye to avenge her ancestor, Rasputin, whose body was found with an eye missing. In the end, Conan is about to confess to Ran that he's Shinichi, but then Kid comes, disguised as Shinichi, and distracts Ran, as a 'thank you' for healing one of his pigeons. 

Summary from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Closed:_The_Last_Wizard_of_the_Century



Personal ratings: 3

I really thought that this movie would be more on Kaitou Kid, which i look forward to seeing. However, in the show, he only appeared in the first and last part. In the middle he was disguised as Shiratori, and did not have many action scenes. 

Also, for this movie, there was not a strong connection between the front and the back. As compared to the last two movies, this movie seems like it could be split into many episodes and fit into the series, not something i like seeing when it is a movie. Where else for the previous two movies, they all do not seem to be able to be fitted in the series, due to the strong connections in the start and the end of the movie. It was made impossible to be split-ed into parts and showed in the series. So for me this movie was quite a disappointment, especially since the first two movies where very nice.

Never the less, I still like this movie because of Kaito kid. I'm not sure why, but I think episodes with Kaito Kid in it just so happen to be nice. 

I was also quite surprised with the mystery of the egg in the show, the twists in the show was also quite nice and unexpected.

Art ratings: 4
(For art reviews go to: Detective Conan (Case Closed))


Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 13 and above
Ratings: PG