Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper - REVIEW

Please note that this review contains full spoilers for the film. Please read at your own risk if you have not yet to see this movie!

Title: Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper
Release Date: October 3rd, 2006
Publisher: FUNimation
Run time: 94 Minutes
Coinciding Season: 3  (Originally released in Japan in 1997 during Japanese Season 3)
Featured Characters: Conan, Jimmy, Rachel, Richard, Leo Joel
Major Characters Introduced: Inspector Santos

Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper is the first Case Close feature film and was released on October 3rd, 2006 by FUNimation. The film follows Conan after he was invited, along with Rachel and Richard, to a famous architects home for a party. 
When the trio arrive, they solve a small puzzle and get a tour of the Architect, Leo Joel's, gallery. 
Later on, at Dr.Agasa's home, Conan sees on the news that C4 was stolen from a warehouse. Right after, a man calls using a voice changer and tells him that he has stolen bombs, causing Agasa and Conan to panic. He tells Conan to go to the park, and then he heads to the park to find Mitch, Amy and George and discovers they were given an RC Bomber Plane from a mysterious man, who called it a bomber. Quickly, Conan realizes that the plane is a bomb and tells the trio that there is a bomb in the plane. After that, the controller falls and breaks, preventing them from controlling the plane. It then crashes and explodes. 

Right after, the man calls asking for Jimmy, to where Conan says he is not there. The man gives Conan information about the next bomb, saying it is under a tree in a plaza. Conan finds the bomb but an old lady takes it, due to a cat being hidden inside the box. Conan takes a bike and drives the bomb into a vacant area, and it explodes. However, Conan is caught in the blast and sent flying into a tree, where he is knocked out.

After that, Conan wakes up in a hospital with Amy, Mitch, George, Agasa, Richard and a doctor surrounding him. After Amy, Mitch and George leave, the bomber calls and informs everyone that he has placed bombs on the city metro line. Afterwards, the police call the metro offices and tells them of the bombs. After, the trains speed up to 60 miles per hour to make sure it is fast enough to pass bombs. Later on, they stop the trains after finding out the bombs are not on the trains. The bombs are then located and everything is safe. 

Later on, Rachel arrives at the city center tower for her apparent date with Jimmy. Meanwhile, the detectives at the hospital are thinking the culprit is targeting Leo Joel's works, and they leave to his mansion. Once they arrive and inform him of the situation, Conan hides and calls Inspector Megure, and says that the bomber is Leo Joel. He explains why he wants to destroy them, and they arrest him. Leo then informs them that he plans to blow up the City Center Tower (Which appeared in second episode of Case Closed, which the victim mistakes the tower as a factory smoke stack.) , which causes everyone to panic, especially Richard and Conan, who know that Rachel is there. 

The bombs explode sealing the exits and everyone heads to the tower. Once they all arrive, they see fire and smoke pouring out of the skyscraper, and Conan runs into the tower to the lobby area, and Rachel, in the lobby, comforts a crying woman. Conan calls Rachel as Jimmy and says he cannot enter the lobby because the door is blocked. He asks Rachel to search for something odd, to which she finds a large bomb in a bag. They decide to defuse the bomb themselves, much to Rachel's dismay. After cutting most of the wires, they discover 2 wires, Red and Blue, that are not in the disarming guide. Rachel then tells him happy birthday, because it turned 12AM, Jimmy's Birthday. Jimmy gives up, sits by the door with Rachel, and tells her to just cut one. He assures her that if it explodes, he will die too, as he is not leaving her side. However, Conan is then pulled out of there despite his cries for Rachel, and Rachel then cuts a wire, saying: "Goodbye... Jimmy."

She cuts the wire, and it is revealed she cut the right one, as the bomb timer stops. The survivors escape the tower and Rachel finds Conan. Conan tells her a fake story that Jimmy left, and asked why she chose the blue wire. She says: "I never cut the red one... because its the wire that connects Jimmy and Me" and the credits role.

My personal opinion is that this film is probably the best of the 6 Case Closed movies, with some great intense action moments and some tear jerker's (Rachel's words to Jimmy before she cuts the wire, for example.) The story line was also really good.
This movie is also very hard to find. FUNimation did a very limited production run compared to other movies, and there are very few (and all are expensive) copies on online retailers. 
I was able to obtain a copy from Craigslist by some very, very shear luck.

This is a great movie and If you can find a copy, I think you would like it too if you are a true case closed fan.

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