Meitantei Conan Movie 20: Junkoku no Nightmare

On a dark night, the Japanese police is raided by a spy. Different countries' intelligence agencies—such as England's MI6, Germany's BND, and America's CIA—as well as the FBI's secret files are going to be taken, but public safety officers lead by Tooru Amuro arrive just in time. The spy steals a car and escapes. The spy and Amuro are then locked in a dead heat on the highway, and just as it is about to cause an accident with multiple cars, the spy's car is hit by FBI agent Shuichi Akai's rifle bullet and falls of the roadway.
The next day, Conan and his friends go to a newly-remodeled aquarium in Tokyo. Under the main attraction, a Ferris wheel, Conan finds an attractive woman alone and injured. Her left and right eyes are different colors.

But the woman is in a state of amnesia where she doesn't even remember her own name, and the cellphone she's carrying is broken. Conan and his friends promise to help her regain her memory, so they stay with her.

Throughout all this, Vermouth is watching behind the scenes. Afterwards, she pulls out a silencer and speaks into an attached intercom, "It's as planned, Gin."

Edogawa, Conan Main

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Haibara, Ai Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Curaçao Main

Amami, Yuuki Japanese

Akai, Shuuichi Supporting

Ikeda, Shuuichi Japanese

Mouri, Ran Supporting

Yamazaki, Wakana Japanese

Amuro, Tooru Supporting

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Mouri, Kogorou Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Vermouth Supporting

Koyama, Mami Japanese

Gin Supporting

Hori, Yukitoshi Japanese

Takagi, Wataru Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Suwa, Michihiko Producer

Kondou, Shuuhou Producer

Ishiyama, Keiichi Producer

Yonekura, Yoshihito Assistant Producer

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Sep 30, 2020

Connoisseur5910

Recommended

As always, a short but on the spot, Bullseye review.
It was one of the best movies. since Detective Conan is an Anime full of TV Fillers, it is no wonder the mist enjoyable parts are cases with Black Organization, this was one of them.
We got introduce to an amazing character Curacao, a Member of BO.
The Movie is more or less about her Development, she is the center of all.
Now as a Connoisseur of Anime, Manga, and so son. This happens to me rarely, but Curacao awoke my ineters, i felt drawn to that character, wanted to fight alongside her.
Now not to spoil anything, i will ... say it (write it) this way, and completely honest.
I was not satisfied with the Ending, i wanted something other, alternative, i found it in this FanFiction Story.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13138752/1/Darkest-Nightmare-AU

Now don't be discouraged, this movie is an outstanding movie from the Detective Conan Franchise, it is a must watch for everybody.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 15, 2016

jin0ugaaa

Mixed Feelings

[CONTAINS SPOILERS]

If you thought the Dimensional Sniper was bad, just wait till you watch this.

The Darkest Nightmare is the 20th movie of the Detective Conan franchise, and is in my opinion, the worst of all the movies. Why? Let me explain.

The movie opens with an exciting car chase, with Bourbon (Amuro Tooru) and Akai Shuichi chasing down a black organisation member with ridiculous physical prowess. After a lengthy and tense chase down the highway, the BO member manages to escape. Injured and disoriented, she makes her way down an alley and comes in full view of a light show projected the amusement park across ... the river, and promptly collapses after screaming her lungs out.

It was at this point that I was beginning to feel slightly iffy, because what the fuck? The events leading up to that very scene were…kinda dumb. Mysteries are one thing, but what just played out on screen seriously needed tremendous leaps of logic. The car chase left me high on adrenaline no doubt, but it was decent at best. Stupid at worst.

But moving on. As I was saying, the magic of the movie had already started wearing off and I was like, what? Ten minutes into the movie? Not a particularly good sign. Still, I bit back the cynicism and tried to give the rest of the movie a fair chance. Needless to say, The Darkest Nightmare proceeded to disappoint me at every turn.

Story: 5/10

The plot is joke. The movies in this franchise have always been brilliant but after The Quarter of Silence (15th movie), I feel like the movies have really been dropping in quality. One thing I disliked greatly about The Darkest Nightmare (And the recent slew of DC movies; namely, 16th to 20th) was the fact that it substituted clever writing for gratuitous action. I’m not saying action is bad. Far from it. When used correctly, action can bring a movie to new heights. Here, all it does is make the movie even more brainless.

The story wasn’t all that intriguing to begin with, there’s no mystery or subtlety. Zero, zilch. I give the movie props for trying to spin a new perspective on the Black Organisation, but the way it goes about it does more harm to the characters than helping it. There are many many scenes in the movie where the BO characters seem like freaking idiots. If you watched the anime or read the manga, BO has always prioritised secrecy over everything else.

That’s why Shinichi was ‘killed’. That’s why he does everything he can possibly think off to keep them off his scent.

And suddenly, this movie just goes ‘fuck it’ and has the BO characters go on a rampage that is not remotely secret. Like, what the hell? There is no way, no way they would do what they did in this movie.

Characters: 3/10

Speaking of characters. Remember that BO character Bourbon and Akai had been chasing? Yeah, apparently she’s best buds with the Shonen Tantei. Like. What? I mean, I can understand how she’d ended up being all mushy with them – they’re kids after all – but the actions she does throughout the movie are highly questionable. Even for a person with Amnesia, how she acts is total 180 from the person she really is. And what she does in the ending is seriously, really, dumb. Even if she did care for the Shonen tantei, I doubt that she would go that far for them. The BO ain’t exactly a sympathetic group of criminals, folks. There’s no heart of gold under the blackened exterior.

The usual characters, Ran, Kogoro, Agasa and Sonoko make their appearance in the movie, but they mattered so little to the plot, other than giving the events a valid reason to occur, that they could’ve been replaced for potted plants for all I cared. I personally find it very upsetting that they were slotted in the way they were. Very two dimensional. They may sound like them and act like them – but they’re mere shells that exist to remind you that yes, this is a Detective Conan movie. In the grand scheme of things, I rather they not appeared in the movie at all.

Animation: 7/10

Pretty much standard for a DC movie, though the action scenes after the car chase scene left little to be desired.

Also, remember the usual exposition we get at the start of every DC movie? It sucked. Sucked really bad. The editing was enough to make my eyes hurt, the exposition being said didn’t line up with what was playing on the screen. I get that they want to shake up the formula a little, what with this being the 20th movie and all, but damn. The phrase ‘Don’t fix what’s broken’ has never rung truer.

Overall: 5/10

I wish I could scrub this movie from my mind. This is no Countdown to the Heaven, or The Raven chaser. This movie could’ve been great. But it wasn’t.

On a side note, I did a little digging and looked up the director of The Darkest Nightmare, and pretty much found the reason why the movies have been the way they’ve been. Movie 16th to 20th were directed by Kobun Shizuno. Out of the 4 movies he directed, I only enjoyed The private eye in the distant sea, and tolerated The Sunflowers of Inferno. I seriously hope his next movie isn’t as big of a disaster as this one.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 29, 2019

Storm9265

Not Recommended

What an absolutely terrible, terrible movie. Never in my life did I stop watching a movie half way because of how bad it was. The director Kobun Shizuno apparently ruined all seven movies starting after the 14th. Every single movie this guy directs is full of absurdity and plots that make no sense, all leaving you with that same bitter aftertaste. Throughout his movies you feel like he knows nothing about the characters and their relationship. The interactions between the characters are so artificial and contrived and irritating. It's like he watches a randomly chosen episode, and copy paste parts of it into the movie. ... This one in particular is so full of ridiculous events and plot that I simply could not stand to finish watching it.

After 6 ruined movies so far, I decided to not watch the 21st, which is the last movie directed by Kobun Shizuno. Such a shame how he ruined the Detective Conan movies. Movies 1 to 7 were all amazing. 8 to 14 were acceptable because they were directed Yasuichiro Yamamoto, who is a long term director of the episodes, who knows and understands the relationship between the characters very well. Kobun Shizuno however is a clueless rookie who has no idea what he's doing. I'm going to guess he has connections or something that got him the position to be a director of such a big series, even though I can't find a single episode from the original run of the series that he directed.

I'm looking forward to watching the 22nd (Zero the Enforcer), which is the first movie after the reign of terror of Kobun ended.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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