Buy from eBay Hakaider Release Date: 01 January, 2001 Director: Keita Amamiya Staring: Keita Amamiya, Mai Hosho Studio: Media Blasters Rated: Unrated Buy this film on eBay Amazon.com Customer Reviews   Rated 4 out of 5 wiseless comments Well, just try to not be so lame ^_^ Hakaider (aka hakaida) is the evil guy from the early ’’70s kikaider (kikaida) live shows...so find a coment about terminator,mad max even alien (1979 If I remember it well) is a bit absurd :) Also note that power rangers are a poor (american)version of other oldie japanese "tokusatsu" heroes. Japanese old character concepts are very imaginative.This is a ’’90s point of view of an old badass turned into anti-hero. It’’s big, It’’s bad, and it’’s gonna blow away anyone who cross it’’s path.Also the movie is spiced with some goth,ciberpunk and religion concepts,making goodie-scouts look as not too good boys (same to evil ones in this film)Film plays with black and white concepts.Amusing future action movie that is not a matrixspawn being :)   Rated 3 out of 5 This Is Nothing Original Hakaider is one strange film, but it also appears to be gleemed from several sources. I identified things from "Spawn", "The Road Warrior", "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", "Terminator 2", "Alien" (1 and 2); the list continues ad infinitum. The odd thing is that after a point, all these elements fuse together to be owned by this film in it’’s own right. The sets are fantastic, some of the most engaging I’’ve seen (even better than some movies with much larger budgets). However, the one thing I had a problem getting around were the robot costumes. I kept getting the feeling I was watching the Sex Pistols version of "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers". This film is large on action and short on believability, not to mention the very bad job on the English subtitles. There were points where the translations made no sense what so ever, sentences were left unfinished and even a very few times when there weren’’t any. I spent about [price] retail on this, which is a fair price for this film. Any more than that and I would have been pretty PO’’d. This more of a kids movie, but with some of the graphic violence, consider first what you want the kid exposed to. I won’’t let mine watch this till she turns 14 atleast.   Rated 4 out of 5 JINZO NINGEN HAKAIDER IS A WRECKING BALL!! Okay, I am a little biased because i’’m a huge Kikaider and Hakaider fan, but i have to say this movie was actually pretty good for an early work. They revamped the suit to make it a little more sleek and well, more menacing. The atmosphere prett dark, which was actually a pleasant change for me. Hakaider, who gets awakened by robbers, sets out to jesus town where he fights police androids and meets up with a resistance group. Hakaider takes to a woman in the resistance group; when they are found and almost everyone is killed (except for the girl of course), Hakaider decides to take vengence and heads to the head quarters to fight Michael (or Mikhail or something) to the death. I really don’’t call this a feature because it’’s surprisingly short, but the action is there and will have you slightly giggling through some parts of the movie because of it’’s wacky violence. There was really no character development in this movie, maybe due to the fact this movie was shorter than trip to the toilet. What was kind of funny was that they really didn’’t explain exactly who or what he is, except for that sketchy little story at the end. I still have no idea if that is Professor Gill’’s brain or not, since they revamped the whole origin, i guess not. Also, for those who have seen the series, you can see Kikaiders head in the final confrontation between the two machines, it was an incredible laugh, which makes me wonder, when is there going to be a cool Kikaider movie?     Related Films: Zeiram II