Jinzô ningen Hakaidâ

This is a twisted retelling of biblical prophecy/history from the perspective of Satan.

Jesus is the Tyrannical villain and the Satan/Lucifer character (Hakaider) is the "liberator" of humanity.

In the fashion of very Japanese story telling in this low budget flick is campy, hokey, existential, extremely bizarre with allegorical imagery, explosions and borderline nonsensical action sequences.

If you're into that sort of weirdness you'll probably enjoy it.

I gave it 6 stars just because it was so damned weird to be entertaining...if not downright blasphemous.

Satan truly is at work around the world with his PR teams trying to skew people's opinions of Spiritual battle that surrounds us every day.

Watch this as silly entertainment but don't get confused as to who is the REAL threat to our existence.

Hakaider is about some robot on a quest to stop some fruit-loop from turning everyone into retards. The action, the visual effects and cinematography is where the movie shines. The action is very well crafted that contains some karate action and gun shooting $#!+ with exploding heads and dismemberment and some bloody crap. I know, I'm compulsive. I liked the effects particularly when the white cyborgs blew up and bled feathers for that heavenly look. The letdowns were the story and pacing. Though the concept is actually great which is about a religious coercion through an insertion of a micro chip into the cortex to make people retardedly subservient, the storytelling was derivative and stupid with these meaningless flashbacks and some annoying characterization. And pacing is inconsistent with the action scenes being fast and the dialogue scenes being slower than sloth sex. Overall the pros out weigh the cons, hence, I liked it.

Even though Hakaider is a decent (but sadly rather short) movie with good action scenes and imagery, the thing that shined most was Yasuaki Honda. He is quite a beautiful, as well as calm and detirmined actor (I wish to see original Japanese version. Seen only Spanish verson). I also like his costume and appearance. He looks so angelic and wicked at the same time. I only wished he had more screentime though.... ....Oh well. At least Keita Amemiya shines his stuff with intricate storytelling and lovely imagery as usual.

After encountering a group of rebels in the autocratic pseudo-utopia of Jesus Town, a vengeful cyborg battles the forces of the town's angelic/demonic self-righteous despot. I watched English-subbed version of this henshin action-fest 'cold', having no familiarity with the television program on which it was based and found the film visually interesting but a bit boring, the latter due to the overly long and repetitive action set pieces. The perpetually scowling Hakaider was just another in a long line of similar looking über-mecha and there seemed little logic or consistency in his toggling back and forth between wetware and hardware or his resistance/susceptibility to various weapons. There is an interesting 'angel' motif woven through the imagery, both Gurjev, the leader of Jesus Town and Michael, his android head of security have wings (sort of) and clouds of white feathers feature prominently at times. The script and acting are drama-school at best (at least when watched dubbed) but the special effects are well executed although the designs seem derivative, resembling everything from Kamen Rider to Robocop. I especially liked the climactic stop-action work. All-in-all: OK but likely more appealing to fans of the original TV show or of the 'mecha-henshin' genre in general (of which I am not, I am just check-boxing my way through a lengthy list of live-action Japanese sci-fi films).

From the guy that direct Kamen Rider ZO and Kamen Rider J two very entertaining tokusatsu flick that too bad never made into an actual series so I expected nothing more than a cheesy action-fest from Hakaider and after a few up and down moments in the end the movie actually make my day a bit brighter.The plot may utterly horrible and there not much meat in the main character Hakaider beside the usual emotionless and badass attitude of an anti hero plus the horrendious English dubbing only make it more worse that it already is but the movie never bother me one bit cause I'm too busy being in awe about how over the top and fun this movie is with the costume and practical effects.The stop motion fight between Hakaider and the weird robot got me quite confused cause the introduction of it very out of nowhere but apparently Mechanical Violator Hakaider is also a spin off of the metal hero series Kikaider so that may explain something