[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The biggest flaw with the superhero side of the plot - aside from its ridiculous opening gambit - is that Eiji, the real Eiji, never gets to take part in the story. The villain spends the entire movie using his son?s face, but Shinnosuke never gets to spend a scene with his actual son. Eiji only exists as a weapon from the future, so we?re robbed of any catharsis. We never get to see an actual familial connection (beyond a nod to a ghost hologram?), which feels like the least we?re owed by the end of this story.with a bunch of action ? but not much more than that to me.

This is kinda where the movie fails to meet me anywhere above "yeah that was pretty fun" for me as well. There's not even anything like... a trap Eiji places in the Dark Drive suit to hurt the Roidmude to give his dad an opening, or a plan he passes through the portal, or some kind of intention for Shinnosuke to carry on so he's at least there in spirit. For a lot of this movie I was wondering how much of Eiji we actually know about and how much was just the Roidmude playing up the act. Type: Special being a spiritual bond between Shinnosuke and his future son is really good on paper but I didn't really feel like it earned that payoff or that it ever hit for me?

Yeah, kinda just feel the same about this movie as you do! Definitely remember having fun, having a good time; far from the worst thing I've seen or the worst use of my time. But it fails at key moments to go beyond that, so it ends up settling on "yeah, alright movie"