Michael Bakshi

This should have been a miniseries, and I think it would work great as such. But trying to press all they wanted to do into a movie just did not.

Individual parts of this movie are great. Most parts even. They pulled of some great stuff with the limited budget they had, they got some great actors and they created a really cool world here. But because they couldn't fit everything into the movie format, they had to cut down on a lot of necessary stuff, and it shows.
The pacing is off. A lot of character work is missing. The story is ultimately very limited, almost straightforward if you really strip it down to the key points, yet feels confusing and thrown together because there are all these loose ends that seem to connect to parts of the larger story that just aren't in this movie. And because a lot of story parts are so stripped down, it even sometimes feels like they are telegraphing later reveals, because so much of the surrounding stuff that should be in here and would normally obscure those references is left out of the film.
It's a little frustrating. I appreciate what they achieved given the limitations, but I just can't help but look at all of the seams and stitches in there and miss the miniseries that this should have been.