[Sh Ranger]

Revice Forward Live & Evil & Demons got subbed, so I just watched it.

I wouldn't call it a bad movie, but it does feel kind of pointless. The plot of the villains, Alicorn, is quite ridiculous, like they're able to create genetic clones of people in a few hours. Revealing Muramasa to be one of these, instead of Hiromi's devil, left me thinking, "hey, what exactly does this have to do with the story of Revice?" Honestly, it feels more like a Ghost V-Cinema, with all these superpowered artificial lifeforms and a character from a religious background becoming an amateur detective (Aguilera's really bad at this, the evil-dressed Masamura tells her that the good-dressed Hiromi is the devil and she doesn't even question it).

The movie is carried mostly by the charisma of its three protagonists, but I don't feel like it does anything new with these characters. Daiji has to learn to trust Kagerou. Hiromi has to gamble [x] to save someone. It's all safe and meh, in a way that I can appreciate for not being bluntly offensive like a lot of Revice, but I would've liked a different scenario that challenged the protagonists on a deeper personal level, instead of just showing us stuff we already know about them. It was nice to see BLUEBIRD in action, at least, as the true fulfillment of Daiji's righteous desire to protect humanity's freedom and peace.