[MaskedRiderAsakura]

I saw it and yeeeeah...it was kind of a let down.


See my problem is that, for arguably the biggest crossover Rider has ever had, our focus is shifted to a select few characters. The fun in doing a big crossover like this is seeing how these characters interact with each other. Yeah, having the, say, Kabuto suit make an appearance again is cool and all, but all he is is a glorified extra. I don't "feel" like Tendou Souji has returned, for all I know, he could be his weird Decade A.R. counterpart or someone else entirely. That's probably the movie's biggest problem, you've got about 30 different Riders all with their own personality traits, but the movie only focuses on like, 7 of them. It's a problem when, in a Rider movie, the Sentai characters get more focus and attention than a majority of the Riders. TBH, the Sentai characters were just unnecessary.

I don't know why they bothered retconning Kusaka's death from the original series. It would've worked just fine, and would help the audience understand that, yes, everything from the original Faiz series could have possibly happened, and it leaves a bigger impact on the audience if they DID see Faiz.

I guess that's the big issue with the movie as a whole. They throw a bunch of familiar suits (and some faces) in your face, but it just feels like fluff. When watching the movie, yeah, I recognized the suits, but it didn't recognize the characters IN the suit. I never got the feeling of "Yeah, that's Shinji and Kotaro tag-teaming a monster!" or "Tendou and Godai are kicking ass together!"