[Kiwami]

I watched the Drive Saga Heart / Mach movie and it was pretty bad. The Heart portion felt like the short "extra" episode some Heisei shows would do where the actors and writers do random shit to poke fun at themselves. And that’s fine really, it’s simple fun, but selling this kind of stuff as a part of a movie is terrible.

Thankfully the Gou portion was a bit better, not by a lot though. It tuned the stupid comedy down a notch and had a worthwhile story to tell, but it was still worse than a regular episode of Drive.

The best part was probably the end fight scene for each segment; Kamen Rider Heart has a neat gimmick with him summoning the powers of Heart, Medic and Brain and the fight of Kamen Rider Mach had great choreography, some really cool moves that surprised me.

And it’s not all bad, some jokes worked for me (Brain and his handkerchief never get old) but the amount of bullshit which was thrown around was just too much. Especially since some moments with an interesting setup simply begged for better execution.

I enjoyed the Chaser Saga movie much more, and even with that one I had my problems. So watching this one… yeah I wasn’t really happy with what I saw. But I guess people who really like Drive should watch it anyways, even just to see what the characters are up to now.