[The Bladesman]

Hmm I'm not too hopeful for this film so far the best "dark tokusatsu story" I've seen was skull man and ignoring the fact its animated, it was much more of a mystery and was unrelated re-imagining.

With this being a continuation it feels weird for it not to have a similar tone, for me something like this should try and capture the sense of awe a child would feel watching power rangers and make it grow to match the older audience. I'm not sure how well i'm describing it but a great example of this is in super robot anime like gaogaigar or Mazinkaiser. Both of these capture the themes and experience of 70's robot anime where the concept of fighting the monster of the week was the same but do it on a larger scale and with a more fleshed out story.