[Matrixbeast]

What's that I see in the distance?
Tsukasa being tolerable and not some douchebitch being explicitly evil for the sake of his Xanatos Gambit that everyone but the main character and audience knows? Never thought I'd see the day.
Oh, what? They just moved that over onto Hongo? Well shit...

Anyway, this movie was decent. This is probably the most I've ever wanted to watch Faiz, so kudos on that.

Something I particularly liked was how the action turned out. The Showa Riders were all really nice to watch, being surprisingly flashy and cool. I particularly enjoyed watching their few transformation sequences.
The fights were fun and, unlike Let's Go Kamen Rider, they didn't force everyone to stand back and do nothing while someone else handled the climax. It's rather odd that, despite the larger cast participating, it didn't feel as cluttered as Let's Go.

Everyone felt like they contributed to the climax, and it made it far more enjoyable.

Something this movie pulled off well was proving to me that Tsukasa can be likable without being a complete ass. I'm particularly shocked by the final interaction between him and Narutaki. They felt like actual friends (Or, acquaintances, rather), which I didn't anticipate (After 5 years of "DAM YOO!" *Teleports off* with no variation, seeing some change there was nice).

Though I know little of Faiz or X, I found the moments between the two to be rather nice and touching. It brought a smile to my face, and a non-action scene in a KR crossover movie managing to do that is quite the Rarity.

However, although there was enough good to consider re-watching, there were still many problems.
Most notable of which was just how downright unlikable they made the Showa Riders (I guess all that assholishness from Decade had to go somewhere...). Even if it was all just a ruse for their end goal, the characters acted as if they were completely unaware, and made no sense at all (What was stopping Hongo from running around and asking for help?)

The other issue was the Toqgers and Daigo. Not that they showed up (Rumor has it that if you say "Bureivu" in the mirror three times, Daigo will appear), but that they were kind of shoehorned in. Yeah, the ToQOh scene was funny, but it didn't hold much importance and just kind of seemed unconnected from the rest of the action.

Also, Fifteen's actor kinda sucked.

[KyoryuGreen]

I absolutely loved this movie! It was great to see my favorites back. Tsukasa was done brilliantly that was the Decade I loved from the series, and much better than being a douche in the first Super Hero Taisen. I forget how much I love Tsukasa he is such a brilliant character. Yay! Takumi returned I just loved how much he had problems from after Faiz and that he felt so much like himself that he regressed to progress again, it was so amazing, I loved his interactions with Wizard, and X too. Keisuke was fantastic as well, as X is one of my favorite Showa riders it was great to see him be a Doctor now and how well he inspired people was amazing. It was nice to see Takatora back and Micchy as a good guy. I loved ZX too, man I loved this movie so much it was fantastic.

[Blade Raider]

This movie is mostly terrible with a few good moments. It pulls the same BS "fooled you" plot twist that Superhero Taisen did except it's even more stupid here. Not only is there absolutely no reason for them to fight, but after the trick is revealed and the day is saved, they start fighting again. What a bunch of idiotic nonsense.

That said, in this sea of nonsense, there is a handful of good things. The Faiz subplot was pretty good. I wish it was the main plot. In fact I think this might have been where the movie started. Given the timing in Gaim's episode order, in which Kouta had just learned about Yuuya's death, a movie about past riders moving on after the death of family/friends is a fantastic idea. It's such a shame for this to be a subplot and wasted here.

On both good and bad, the glorified cameos of Super Sentai. It was fun to have Momotaros combine with ToQ-Oh and I laughed when Daigo crashed the combining sequences. That said, the Super Sentai have no reason to be here. You could cut all of it and the dino thing they fight and nothing would change.

Kaito chasing a turtle almost makes this damn movie worth it. Almost. Also, some of the fights are pretty good.


My final thoughts are that this is a terrible movie with a good idea buried in it's subplots. It's the worst movie I've seen all year and another example of why Toei needs to scale these crossovers back. For a good crossover, watch the accompanying ToQger/Gaim TV special instead and don't even bother with this.


PS If you want to see Rider 1 in action, go watch 3 episodes of the original series. They will be much better than this and Rider 1 won't being acting like an old jackass that keeps telling you how rough he had it back in his day.

[Dr Kain]

If you have seen the last two Taisen movies, then you already know the plot. Evil villains make a plot to destroy world, both sides of the good guys have to battle each other, one of these heroes is pretending to work for the villain, big lackluster fight appears, the end. That is pretty much this movie in a nut shell. And if you are wanting to see the big fight against the two eras of the riders, you might as well just skip to the 90 minute mark of the movie for one of the most unexciting battles in Toku history. Add on top that the big bad villain is actually taken out by the ToQGers and KyoryuRed while Kamen Rider 15 doesn't even use half of his fifteen rider abilities, this movie just flat out sucks. The only Heisei riders to get any sort of screen time are W, Gaim, Kabuto, 555, and of course, Decade, while the rest are excretionly mistreated here. If you are a Kuuga, Agito, Blade, OOO, or Ryuki fan, prepare for major disappointment as each of them get maybe 15 seconds of screen time. If you are a Zo, Riderman, Super-1, Skyrider, or a Shin fan, expect the same amount of dismay. Overall, this movie just flat out sucks and is not worth sitting through the 98 minute running time. Go watch a good Toku movie instead.

[MaskedRiderAsakura]

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The only Heisei riders to get any sort of screen time are W, Gaim, Kabuto, 555, and of course, Decade, while the rest are excretionly mistreated here. If you are a Kuuga, Agito, Blade, OOO, or Ryuki fan, prepare for major disappointment as each of them get maybe 15 seconds of screen time. If you are a Zo, Riderman, Super-1, Skyrider, or a Shin fan, expect the same amount of dismay.

I felt this way too. Here you have this big crossover between all of these Riders and more than half of them are glorified cameo appearances. I mean this isn't a random assortment of characters here, these guys were all main characters at some point. Kind of disservice to treat them as background characters.

[Switchblade]

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The only Heisei riders to get any sort of screen time are W, Gaim, Kabuto, 555, and of course, Decade, while the rest are excretionly mistreated here. If you are a Kuuga, Agito, Blade, OOO, or Ryuki fan, prepare for major disappointment as each of them get maybe 15 seconds of screen time. If you are a Zo, Riderman, Super-1, Skyrider, or a Shin fan, expect the same amount of dismay.

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I felt this way too. Here you have this big crossover between all of these Riders and more than half of them are glorified cameo appearances. I mean this isn't a random assortment of characters here, these guys were all main characters at some point. Kind of disservice to treat them as background characters.

I really don't get the complaint here. The Riders that got the most screen time were the ones that had the original actors back. I'm not going to complain because some dude in the Kuuga suit and a random voice actor didn't get as much focus as Kento Handa and Ryo Hayami, the latter of which hasn't appeared as Jin Keisuke in over three decades. The movie doesn't have the running time to give all thirty Riders their own subplot or moment; I really like the approach of limiting it to a few but making sure that all of those guys are actually the original actors.

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Shin fan

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Shin fan

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Shin fan

lol

[Dr Kain]

Because I am a Blade and Ryuki fan, and there was a serious lack of both. IN fact, neither one of them even appears at all until about 85 minutes into the movie.

The worst thing is 15. He is supposed to be this big baddie that has the abilities of all 15 Heisei riders, but he only uses Wizard (twice), Fourze (twice), Gaim (twice), and Decade (twice). Where the hell are his Kiva, W, Blade, Ryuki, OOO, and Hibiki ones? In fact, why even give someone the ability to use all of their powers if they AREN'T EVEN GOING TO USE THEM???!!

The only scene in the movie I can honestly say I liked was the fight between W, Black, Rx, and Baron.

Oh yeah, and another thing, this movie had way too many plots crammed into it, and then there are plots that were just forgotten. What happened to Decade grabbing more of the Kamen Riders? It seemed like he stopped doing that after he ran into Takumi. And what was the point of redoing Kaixa's death sequence from 555? What is worse is they did not even reenact it properly. Then you have 10 minutes spent on Emo Takumi, which made the movie drag on.

Also, they made a brand new costume for Birugenia (which looks awful btw), but he didn't even do jack ****. He was nothing more than a background character.

GOd this movie sucked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MaskedRiderAsakura]

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I really don't get the complaint here. The Riders that got the most screen time were the ones that had the original actors back. I'm not going to complain because some dude in the Kuuga suit and a random voice actor didn't get as much focus as Kento Handa and Ryo Hayami, the latter of which hasn't appeared as Jin Keisuke in over three decades.

I mean I'm not asking that they each have their own individualized subplots. I'm just saying that they should have done more on-screen than punch something, never to be seen again.

Which is why it's kinda annoying that the Super Sentai guys got more attention than a majority of the Kamen Riders, in a Kamen Rider movie.

[KyoryuGreen]

TV Nihon released their subs of it. They have the Alternate Ending Subbed too.

[ZeoRangerV]

Just checked out the Showa ending.

That was just as dumb as the other one