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Kamen Rider Drive x Gaim

Good lord, jumping back into Rider with this movie is giving me whiplash. I feel like there's way to much plot for an hour and a half. If this movie was extended by 30 minutes overall, with 10 minutes extra for each part, I'd be down with it. But I guess they have to have it so short so they can get as many run times as possible.

Gaim portion:

It's cool to see Kouta and Mai on their new planet for like 12 seconds before Mega Hex messes it up. Although the explanation for Mega Hex was super lazy exposition by Ryoma. I find it interesting that MegaHex fought off the forest in order to just do the same thing the forest did lol.

The movie never really did make it clear like with Kaito, but was Ryoma also a mechanical construct or was that actually him risen to life again? Dragon Fruits energy was cool though, alebeit the new powerup was fucking chumped by some Sengoku Drivers.

And what is with Kouta coming back to life? Just because they had the Kiwami Key/Golden Fruit? I guess maybe Kouta's essence became one with the fruit once he attained Space Godhood?

Drive Portion:

I haven't seen Drive, so I might sound like an idiot when it comes to this.

The section felt very eh to me. This movie as a whole has a shit load of pacing issues, but this one suffered the worst from it. Having this somewhat interesting premise of this thief stealing the ZZZ body and having a competition with Drive for the Rider title, masquerading as others, you'd think this would be a cool thing? Nope. Everything felt like it happened so fast, they had to kill Belt-san partway through just because only to have a Mach cameo revive the guy.

I feel like the revelation of Mr. Belt original building that body should be a bigger revelation then it was treated. You'd think a super powerful unused plan would be a gamechanger and very dangerous, you know? Hell, Lupin doesn't even use ZZZ most of the time, it's there for the reveal and as a plot device to power up MegaHex.

The end of the movie is whatever, my favorite moment being Kouta referring to himself as a "Space God". And both Drive and Gaim having trouble getting into Trideron because of thier swapped forms lol.