This was a terrible film.
The Blood-C TV show seemed like all of its story ideas were designed to fulfill an over-arching vision. Say what you may about how good it is (and there's an awful lot to say
), it always had a good idea what it was doing.
However, the same cannot be said of the Last Dark. Not only did it not have a firm grasp of what it was trying to do, but it played counter to what the TV show was leading up to as well. This should have been a gritty action piece as Saya tried to seek revenge against Fumito while looking for new ways to bypass her restriction against killing humans and reconciling with her monster nature. It could have been cool, but instead we get a story about NCIS-style hackers. Yay. It certainly doesn't help that all of the new characters (and the old characters as well?) are inconsequential, adding very little to the story.
The sad thing is that it doesn't even look very good. The character designs were pretty decent, and some of the backgrounds were good as well. However, the lighting choices (and the color palette in general) in the film were terrible, obliterating the detail or making all of the characters look like corpses.
The dark mood scenes don't fare much better. One of the key scenes in the film was Mana relating the story of her missing father. It might have been a nice character moment, but it looked like this:
Even the action scenes don't fare very well. The action direction wasn't very good in general, and the last fight was hilariously ugly looking. The Japanese government got fleeced on this one - they should have funded more Little Witch Academia instead.