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Since my copy finally came in today, I almost immediately upon opening the box watched the Amazons movie. While definitely not THE film of the year I was most hyped for (Halloween yo), it certainly was in the higher end of that list. And I gotta say after watching it, twas not bad.

The plot is about Haruka and Mizuki after an encounter with 4C being picked up by an orphanage which is run by the new rider introduced in the film. From there though, holy crap does the film go crazy with the story. I won't go into detail since (to my knowledge) there are no subs out yet for the movie and I don't want to spoil things for anybody. Along with this what I know of Japanese got me through the movie well in terms of the pre established characters and understanding some of the new plot, but a lot of it is kind of late developed or left in the air without fully comprehending everything. Because of this I can't fully critique and review the story to a full degree, but there are somethings that are pretty baffling in general and some plot points kinda drag on a bit too much. Along with that I was sort of hoping it would clear some story elements from season 2 up, and the ending is a little odd. I will say though that the story is pretty dark, which while par the course for Amazons, it actually gets even darker with the major plot point and conflict of the film.

Acting wise everybody is pretty good, the film looks good and is pretty cinematic in a lot of scenes (only a few scenes look like just a slightly higher budgeted version of the show), and there isn't a filter like in the show so a lot of details are shown off in full (which also means the movie is even bloodier than usually since it now is clearly red). Music was good, the theme is okay and is certainly not my favorite between the three.

Overall Final Judgement was a fun (as fun as Amazons can be) ride and a pretty good movie. I wouldn't call it the best Rider movie out there (I personally would give that title to either J or Paradise Lost) but it is certainly better than the majority (of what I have seen at least). If this is indeed the last entry into the series then I would say it went out rather well.