[Blade Raider]

This movie is mostly terrible with a few good moments. It pulls the same BS "fooled you" plot twist that Superhero Taisen did except it's even more stupid here. Not only is there absolutely no reason for them to fight, but after the trick is revealed and the day is saved, they start fighting again. What a bunch of idiotic nonsense.

That said, in this sea of nonsense, there is a handful of good things. The Faiz subplot was pretty good. I wish it was the main plot. In fact I think this might have been where the movie started. Given the timing in Gaim's episode order, in which Kouta had just learned about Yuuya's death, a movie about past riders moving on after the death of family/friends is a fantastic idea. It's such a shame for this to be a subplot and wasted here.

On both good and bad, the glorified cameos of Super Sentai. It was fun to have Momotaros combine with ToQ-Oh and I laughed when Daigo crashed the combining sequences. That said, the Super Sentai have no reason to be here. You could cut all of it and the dino thing they fight and nothing would change.

Kaito chasing a turtle almost makes this damn movie worth it. Almost. Also, some of the fights are pretty good.


My final thoughts are that this is a terrible movie with a good idea buried in it's subplots. It's the worst movie I've seen all year and another example of why Toei needs to scale these crossovers back. For a good crossover, watch the accompanying ToQger/Gaim TV special instead and don't even bother with this.


PS If you want to see Rider 1 in action, go watch 3 episodes of the original series. They will be much better than this and Rider 1 won't being acting like an old jackass that keeps telling you how rough he had it back in his day.