This is a recombination of five season 2 episodes into a single narrative, so if you watched them recently, you're paying for the same story twice. For everyone else, it works because it isolates the one arc where Gojo and Geto are still friends, before the system breaks them into enemies. The new footage doesn't change the story, but the acoustic retooling of the soundtrack makes you feel the weight of what they're about to lose, two kids who never stood a chance once jujutsu society got its hooks in them. It moves faster as a film than it does spread across five episodes. By the end, you understand exactly why Geto becomes what he becomes, and why Gojo becomes what he becomes. The cost of power is paid in youth.

Before they became enemies, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were high school classmates and close friends. As the two most powerful sorcerers around, they are assigned to guard Riko Amanai, a student chosen to be sacrificed as the Star Plasma Vessel, until she can carry out that role. A religious cult and other curse users pursue them, and only these two are capable of the job, but the mission will shape both of their futures. The movie re-edits the first five episodes of the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen into one feature. It adds new footage of glimpses from their school days, set to an acoustic version of Tatsuya Kitani's song "Ao no Sumika." Supernatural action and drama drive this recap of the Hidden Inventory and Premature Death arc.