[Dr Kain]

At last we come to Missing Ace, and what an utter insult this piece of nonsense is. It is like the writers took everything that made Blade good and did the exact opposite in this movie. Where to start?

First off, I like the idea of a rider movie that takes place several years later, and seeing what the characters are doing, but here, it just doesn't make sense. None of the characters look like they have aged as they should (for obvious reasons), especially Mutsuki, and they don't even feel like the same characters. Kotaro might have been foolish, but he is not the type of person that would get all snooty because he became a top selling author. At least, not to the degree he did. It also seems like they had no idea how to write Tachibana or Hirose, as they were both extremely out of character. The only one who seemed to be fine was Blade, but even he is a little awkward. Them aside, the three new riders are completely unlikable characters as they have no personalities, no growth, and two of them are just there just to die. That is really poor writing as their deaths feel empty and the viewer has no reason to care for them.

Oh my god, and if you can give me a single reason as to why Amane should have been saved, let me know, because I cannot think of one. They should have just let the Undead kill that damn bitch!!!

The story itself has plot holes so big that Optimus Prime can drive through them. Why did it take them four years to find out that Karasuma was dead? That the cards had been unsealed? Why did it take four years for the Undead to even attack? Also, it makes no sense why none of the kings have any type of personality, they are all just mindless creatures.

The fight scenes are okay but the Aces are too quick to just attack the "old" riders for no reason. I guess you could say it was because they were under the control of Junichi, but it just comes off as forced when there is no story to back it up. The "plot twist was incredibly lame and predictable. There is nothing in this movie that works.

Even the final fight between Blade and Joker at the beginning of the movie does not work for me. Am I honestly supposed to believe that Blade would just beat Hajime like that and seal him up? Again, it just goes against his character. I also hate these stupid alternate reality stories as they never work well. To be fair though, the fight itself is pretty awesome from a choreography stand point, and I do wish we had gotten a similar setting in the last episode of the series, but the outcome is just poorly done. It could have worked had the writing been there to justify it, but here, it just feels like it was done because that is not how it was going to happen in the series.

And I honestly felt there was no purpose for Chalice to be in this movie at all. Sure, it is cool seeing all four riders together, but that scene was over quickly and even felt tacked on for fanservice over writing. Hajime has no development whatsoever.

There are more issues I have with the movie I'll bring up later, but I do not have time for right now. I give this movie a 3/10 and that is because of the fight at the beginning of the movie and its music.