[GoldenXtreme]

I feel like I'm really hammering this thread with all of my niche tokusatsu watching sometimes, haha.

Today I watched Mechanical Violator Hakaider! Featuring a dream team, or perhaps nightmare team, of Toshiki Inoue as the writer and Keita Amemiya as the director, both of which I was absolutely unaware of before seeing the opening credits. The movie that unfolded before me was... how do I put this... It had its head thoroughly rammed up its own ass. A generic dystopian setting with a hilarious dosage of faux-christian names and themes. Our anti-hero and his utter lack of characterization and dialogue. That pointless romance between Hakaider and a random woman he met that was filled with Inoue's typically hamfisted romantic stylings. Listen Keita, honey, I think you are very charming but also your directorial style is *a lot* and when you combine it with all the rest of this stuff the entire movie just becomes so laughably pretentious and bad. The Inoue Zone never ends and never stops.