![]() While the way he's resurrected makes sense from what we've seen of the character and how he's able to control his cells, the fact he's resurrected proper is the biggest way the film spits in the face of the show's conclusion. He's not alone either, since the film also brings Evolto back in a reluctant hero role to face off against his brother. Killbus takes every complaint about Evolto being a less interesting villain as time went on and double downs on it, as if the writers' are trying to prove a point about how much worse it could have been. Suddenly Evolto isn't meant to seem all that bad in comparison to his brother who's obsessed with nothing but destruction, and the way the film seems to paint Evolto's stealing of the Pandora Box to "protect it" as some sort of heroic act just comes across as flat out bizarre. But while Cooler is just a dumb bit of fun that is mostly ignored by Dragon Ball canon, Killbus just messes around with Build's in the most unsightly of ways. Let's start with Killbus, as Kamen Rider takes a leaf out of Dragon Ball Z's book and casts its villain as the stronger, eviler brother of the main series' greatest threat. A hero's work may never truly be done, but NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z is less taking the band-aid off and more just ripping open the wound. ![]() Any impact that ending had is lost in the first 15 minutes or so, and by the end of film the victory the team had achieved is left hollow and meaningless. So rather than come up with something new and find a clever way to work around these limitations, the film goes about systematically undoing every finite part of Build's ending in this most convenient ways possible. Unfortunately because Kamen Rider Build ended a lot cleaner than previous series, NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z hasn't been left with a whole lot to work with. Acting as an epilogue of sorts to their respective series means that the overall threat has been extinguished, and so unless they dive into prequel/side story territory they're usually more about mopping up any remnants that are left over. ![]() For the most part Kamen Rider V-cinema releases have to be fairly limited in scope.
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