21 Grams Rebalanced

A Great improvement over the original film! It added so muck more to the story, the characters. Now that everything has a actual flow to it, you get much more invested to the movie. Somehow Gatos managed to take a fragmented non-linear movie, and make a straightforward linear story that works and feels right. It could have easily been presented as the original cut of the movie and it still would have been a really good movie. At no point this edit feels amateurish or has anything that feels like it was fanedited. Top-notch editing with no audio or video problems at all. Audio goes smooth for the entire edit and the video quality is really good. For me now this is the definite version of 21 Grams! Gatos Good Job!!! You deserved fanedit of the month!

I saw the workprint of this back in October and finally got around to watching the final version. My original review holds still holds true:

“21 Grams Rebalanced” is as close to perfection I could imagine a fanedit of this type being. When I first read Gatos’ intention I thought to myself, “Man, how’s that going to look? That movie was chopped up to hell.”
But, Gatos himself said it best: “It was really like trying to put together a puzzle and figure out which scenes go where.”
Consider the original “21 Grams” a Rubik’s Cube with everything mixed up. To most, it looks a jumble of colors, but there’s a certain poetry to how it’s mixed up. The reds and the greens are placed evenly apart and the yellows never touch the blues.
“21 Grams Rebalanced” is the same cube, fully solved. The colors are all there and technically it’s the same cube, but it’s not the same beast. It’s even, smooth and looks beautiful.
10/10