Boruto instantly switches from a pariah whose father is disappointed of him, to the hero who saves the day and even gets to rescue his father with the power of plot convenience. The last third of the movie is just a retarded battle shonen with powers working in any way the plot demands for them to work. I do not have unreasonable expectations for stating the obvious fuck up you did. You ruined the conflict by having a one dimensional villain who wants to kill everyone and take over the world. Kishi, you don’t present me with a juicy steak and then you take it away you made expect a juicy steak and not the same old horseshit. But the get-up was so good and the villain attacked the moment the hero was about to be blamed, thus it’s essentially Kishimoto showing the viewer his middle finger. I know this is a movie for children so it makes sense that it would never try to handle its conflicts in a mature manner. Meaning, the conflict is no longer psychological because it got externalized and can simply be solved by punching the crap out of it. Boruto doesn’t need to face consequences because the villain is conveniently someone who also became strong by using other peoples’ power instead of his own. But instead of that, we get the obligatory villain of the movie attacking and everything goes back to the same old done to death fighting shonen bullshit we’ve been getting for the past 15 years. The last part of the movie could have been about him facing rejection and disappointment from everyone, which would have taught him a lot of important life lessons. This right here could have been the point where we get a good story about the protagonist dealing with the consequences of his mistakes.
He is not a victimized orphan driven over the edge, so he can’t use that excuse. He is exposed in front of everyone by his own father. Remember when Naruto stole the secret scroll in the first episode and never got punished for such a major crime? Well, Boruto does something similar he cheats in the Chuunin exam by using technology instead of his own powers. Unless you had a really messed up childhood, this was making everything much easier to relate with. Despite going through the exact same events as his father, he is a much more normal character, living in a much less emo world that is not constantly victimizing children.
Boruto is not a typical shonen protagonist, in the sense he is not an orphan hated by everyone, has super amazing hidden powers inside him, while also being the chosen one. The saddest part is that despite the rehash, the movie still has a much more likable get up. Despite trying to make it seem things are different, Boruto is still going through the exact same events Naruto did. Although Kishimoto was given the chance to start fresh with new characters and new storylines, all he did was making the children have the exact same personalities as their parents, and the plot being a repeat of everything that happened thus far. Boruto the first movie, is a sequel to Naruto the Last movie, where the milking of the franchise keeps going by simply repeating the same crap all over again.