This film was an interesting homage to a wonderful manga series.  I thought most of the components were wonderful--the casting was good, the cinematography was gorgeous, and music was lovely, and the CGI was above par for an anime film.  Al and Ed were pretty much on point the whole time, and that is incredibly important.  And, can I mention they had the perfect Hughes?  He looks so much like Hughes!!  I was so pleased!!

There was only one snag... the writing.

Or I should say, the choice of what to include and not include in the film.

Overall, they made a lot of tweaks to the storyline to fit the story into two hours.  When I saw they were making a film of FMA, I wholly expected the film to cover the bare beginning of the story--maybe through Shou Tucker and perhaps as far as Laboratory 5.  For some reason, they chose to deviate vastly from these expectations.  While the actual meat of it wasn't badly executed, the alterations to the timeline damaged the impact of the story greatly, and took away a lot of the things which makes FMA such a good story to begin with.

I, overall, would recommend this to fans who are very familiar with FMA and not bothered by the idea of the story grazing over a lot of important plot points and character development, but if you want to bring someone into FMA this would be a terrible film to show them.  Stick with the manga or the FMAB anime for that.  But for a fan just wanting to scratch a FMA itch without rewatching or rereading a MASSIVE story?  This would definitely do the trick.