However, I can’t judge a film based solely on how amazing the animation is, I have to also factor in how much I enjoyed it, and how much replayability it had; and I only enjoyed about 50-60% of it. I don’t mind some violence and if they hadn’t gone as far as they did I’d have been fine, but by the end it had gotten so bloody that there was no way for me to enjoy it any more, and I have no desire to rewatch it.

I enjoyed learning about the film’s backstory, and the fact that he wants this to be an entire film is a very intriguing premise. I hope he is able to finish it, and if he does I will most certainly go to see it, but that really doesn’t help me enjoy this short that much more.

Part of the problem is the fact that the film is so short, and there is zero context given for anything that’s happening. It just seems to be blood and violence for blood and violence’s sake. If this was just one scene in a much longer movie that had so much more going for it than just violence, I think I would be able to more readily look past it, but when that’s almost all it is, I just can’t enjoy it.

Despite my feelings toward it as a whole, Prologue is still a great film, an animation marvel, and for a good chunk of it, very beautiful to watch. If you have no problems with blood and violence, then I would totally recommend it.