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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Kamen Rider the First

Could this this movie be re-titled as "Toshiki Inoue and Heisei rider tropes with an original Kamen Rider skin: the movie"?

Pretty much, yeah.

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The rider and monster suits are some the best Rider suits ever put on screen. The combination of leather with technological and bug detailing is just so beautiful. The monsters look like they are wearing held together metal armor. Cobra and Snake look like cyborg Oujas excepted pumped up to 11. If you liked some of the detailing of the Trial Undead from Blade, this will appeal to you. Spider,and the Shocker grunts were great as well. The only one I think falls flat was bat.

Fight scenes were great as well. Not only was the fist fighting interesting and great but the motorcycles felt like they had a purpose. The movie had the riders use the motorcycles to their advantage, unlike Riders of the era which this movie came out which felt limited by them. Also, I will never get tired of seeing the First's Rider kicks.

Visually, this movie looks beautiful. Not just the suits, but also the way they film. The film is filled with tons of blues and grays during the darker sections. If you loved Blade's darker visuals, this movie defintley will have you fall in love with its cinematography.

Yeah, when the movie remembers it's about Kamen Rider it can be really, really cool. The suits are awesome and the action scenes are really good. The problem is that the writer obviously cared more about making a love story than he did about making an action movie and all of the Rider stuff got shunted over to the side. And if you think it's bad here, the Rider:Other Shit ration is even worse in The Next.