[KyoryuGreen]

Kamen Rider The Next: Well I guess my opinions will continue to boggle the minds of people here as I actually enjoyed this movie. Granted it had it's flaws but they didn't bother me as much. It reminded me a lot of Kamen Rider merged with GARO. We had Green Knights instead of a Golden one lol. The beginning was a bit slow but it got better when Hongo came into it. I really enjoy this version of Hongo so I think that's the main reason I enjoyed this movie. Though I could have lived without the annoying students in his classroom though I'm glad he was able to shut them up later in the movie. Still Hongo's heroics and wanting to help his student that was having problems I enjoyed a lot. I think the horror sub plots were better in this than the random villain sub plot of the first just because this made everything tie in together story wise. This is a very different origin for V3, I know his pretty well and I definitely like the original one better but this was interesting and the one who played Kamen Rider Drake was really good as this version of Shiro. I think all the Riders' actors were fantastic as their versions of Ichigou, Nigou, and V3. The action was great and definitely the highlight of the movie, especially the final battle at the end with the three of them. I could have seen them do a mini-series afterwards to maybe flesh out the characters a little more though and seen what happened with Asuka from the first movie. Ichimonji's death was sad but at least he went out how he lived and didn't die against a random monster, he really was on borrowed time with how the process went for him. I liked Shiro's story and that he found something to fight for and how he turned against Shocker too, I wish they would have went more into why he was working for Shocker though. It would have been cool if they had some form of Riderman in this too. I think they got the core of the characters correct with Hongo fighting to protect people, Ichimonji fighting his heart out to help people, and Shiro fighting for his family. I also love Elseworlds/Parallel Earth stories so this is kind of like Earth-2 for Kamen Rider and I'm fine with it. Kind of sad they didn't continue with a Kamen Rider X one, I would have loved it and an updated King Dark and Apollo Geist would have been awesome too. Overall, I thought this was pretty good, I liked the First better and definitely not the worst Kamen Rider movie I've seen. That was a fun ride, I'll probably watch them again sometime.