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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Sorry you didn't like it. I found the film very fun from a visual perspective. The fight near the end in the white room is easily the part of the film that stuck with me the most: very cool idea to put red stuff under the walls to make it look like the room was bleeding as it was damaged.

I'd say it's probably about on par with ZO for me as far as Amemiya's 90s trilogy is concerned.

I did think the movie had a good deal of fun value as a visual spectacle, but the combination of Amemiya's style with Inoue going full Kamen Rider The Next on the script may have just been too overwhelming for me, haha.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

As a fan of most things Kikaider, the Hakaider movie was one I didn't like at all. It just overall felt really pointlessly edgy at best. And while the dub did try to help the script in a few ways, it wasn't enough to save anything.

I go to Tekkouki Mikazuki for my ideal Inoue and Amemiya team up.

The edginess of this movie is really odd in relation to the broader Kikaider series, which always had a much more positive outlook. Gritty, adult-oriented entries are nothing unusual for tokusatsu series, but even stuff like Shin Kamen Rider Prologue grasped the general ideas of Kamen Rider while this is so completely dissociated from Kikaider that I really question the point of it being in the same series.