[KFCC] Dark Soldier D Review

Story: After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Kawamata and Professor Matsuzaki stole a prototype combat suit and fled to Japan. They set up a secret bunker and continued working on the Robotic Battle Suit. Kawamata had his prayers answered with the appearance of a giant monster in Tokyo, he has been desperately waiting to test his suit out. Kawamata readies his suit and heads off to challenge the monster.

Review: D Dark Soldier is basically a collage of three episodes of a Japanese TV series. It is basically a Sci-Fi TV series with monsters and robotic combat suits. Keep in mind that the overall quality of this movie reflects the fact that it is a TV series, so don't expect really incredible stuff. The story is pretty basic and easy to follow but you will find the evolution of the story quite interesting, a few unexpected things!

You will find the characters surprising in this movie, they are all basically selfish and mean. Well in a sense they are for the most part evil, sometimes you see some characters in a movie with an attitude but here, its everyone, its really surprising to see! This at least makes the characters not boring, none them are really interesting but they aren't boring either. One thing to mention, you do have a fair dose of some bad acting in the movie.

For a TV series I am surprised to see how violent it actually was, you got crowds ripped to pieces by monsters or stray machine gun fire. The actual battles with the giant monsters are interesting as the monster is CGI and the Robot Suit is real, the blend of the two technologies was decent but not seamless. You have one big heavy fight scene per episode but you have other small things during the episodes like the beating up of handicap people, we kid you not!

The subtitles were very good on the DVD version and the dialog was not overwhelming. For a TV series this was pretty cool, of course its not exactly serious and a bit cheesy here and there but generally very entertaining. Unfortunately, these are the only episodes in the series, it was discontinued in Japan. Overall most people that like non-serious Sci-fi, Japanese monsters type movies and chicken might like this one, just keep in mind it was made for TV and is notcompletely serious.