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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It was very considerate of them to put Kiva’s name in the title.

I'm surprised you put this in this thread, honestly! But I mean, I guess if it is going to be here:

Climax Deka sure ain't great! There's basically no getting around how uninspired it feels, and giving the usual glance at the film's page on Wikipedia, I learned three things that kinda explain a lot. One, it was originally conceived as a V-Cinema rather than something theatrical. Two, The whole cop thing is a direct result of Kobayashi struggling to come up with a plot after the end of the show and just casually pitching a random arbitrary concept that Shirakura genuinely approved of. And three, the director, Osamu Kaneda, is on record that the film uses literally ALL the footage they filmed, which is why no director's cut exists like so many Rider films of the time.

So basically, it was never meant to be big in scale, the story wasn't anything anyone was super passionate about, and they struggled to even get the finished product to be the length they were after, all of which does not bode well for Climax Deka's chances of being an exciting, interesting, and well-paced narrative.

I don't actually hate it, for the record! But it is easily the Den-O movie I'm least interested in rewatching. I've seen it twice and neither time did it leave much of an impression. It has its fun moments and an arguably excessive amount of insert themes, and... I mean, I guess Chalice is in it? That's pretty neat, I guess.

Climax Deka sure ain't great! Really hope you weren't counting on me to come in here and give some massive counterargument on that!