Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant (1992) (2024)

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• Review by Justin Decloux ★★★

  When I saw the poster for this V-Cinema fantasy film, I couldn't believe this didn't exist ANYWHERE with English subs, but after watching it, I got the gist of why - there's a hole in the middle of this project.

  The story goes that this was supposed to feature Space Sheriff Gavan in the same vein as KAMEN RIDER SHIN and MECHANICAL VIOLATOR HAKAIDER (Both like this, Bandai productions), but something happened, and they couldn't include him, which means there's... not really a hero protagonist. Instead, we follow a bunch of random bikers get chased by goons for a way too long 105 minutes.

  That's not to say this isn't a wild ride, thanks to Director Yoshiaki Kobayashi (a grizzled…

• Review by BjorkShandy ★★★★½ 2

  Shadow of the Colossus

  It's like 'Zipang' except everyone is either flying around, being chased or being chased by someone who is flying around... it's fucking amazing. I didn't have a clue what was going on until the final 20 minutes and even then I still didn't really know what was going on and just tried to logically piece things together... 90% of the film is people flying around so trying to think logically is probably a bad idea.

  There's a gang of Bikers and a girl who I assume is romantically involved with the lead biker. Ren Osugi has a few henchmen and shoots people with a silenced pistol. They want the girl and so do these two ancient…

• Review by A Merrit ★★★★ 1

  In some way this seems like it’s going to be a bog standard secret alien identity tokusatsu sort of thing, but then it hits you with some of the gnarliest car crash madness they could possibly do. There are some cool alien designs here and the finale is wonderfully epic and imaginative. The subtitles were a little iffy on the version I watched, but even so it’s not exactly the most complicated plot or the strongest dramatic stuff, those fantastical action bits and all the wire work totally make up for it though.

• Review by cayce ★★★

  Without subs, hard to recommend -- tokusatsu stuff is mostly pretty sparse, the human stuff is not very interesting, and what special effects are most used are not that thrilling (lots of composited flying around that is uncanny in a cool way, sort of, but then gets overused). It does have some pretty good Keita Amemiya designs -- all the monsters have a fucked up little secondary face, one has a whole second little guy attached to him; there's a good androgynous naked humanoid thing impaled to a Stonehenge type standing stone. That brings us to the impalements, of which this movie has a bizarre amount. For nearly the whole runtime, almost every death is an impalement. It happens like…

• Review by Busiris ★★★½

  Big thanks as always to Justin Decloux for highlighting rare movies and giving me the chance to experience some obscure and hard to find stuff! If it's tokusatsu, you know I gotta check it out.

  This one has Keita Amemiya creature designs and was supposed to be a film featuring Space Sheriff Gavan (but he got pulled from the production so he ain't here), so I was excited going into it. I'll admit that the plot is incompressible to me and the lore is dense for a movie with seemingly no other real connection to anything. Something about alien beings that are trying to summon a giant to take over the world. Even for me, it's quite "out there", especially…

• Review by Isosceles Rectangle ★★★★★

  it's giving dianetics, it's giving the ring cycle, it's giving children's adventure serial where something ridiculous must happen every five minutes

• Review by TopherSpace ★★★½

  There’s almost too much going on here. It’s fun in the sense that it scratches that Tokusatsu itch while being its own bizarro obscurity.

• Review by Jay H ★★★

  Justin screened this as a warmup to the mind melter. He was going to include it but said it was too long for the time slot. It’s certainly mind melting in a convoluted kind of way. I knew Justin was referring to Keita Amemiya when he mentioned the VFX being done by a director he likes.

  The suits and FX are v good and I love the giant. The last third makes it worth sitting thru the slog to get there. Love seeing younger Ren Osugi (RIP).

• Review by ed ★★★½

  a fun time at the v-cinema, thanks to justin. the way people flew out of their bodies was a real treat.

• Review by Justin ★★★½

  This movie had me like weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  Watching this without captions would also make for some bomb vaporwave b-roll

• Review by Travis ★★★½

  if im being totally honest i only barely understood what was going on but those effects were absolutely supreme 👌

• Review by LazyPieSunday ★★★½

  Reina!

  Wild movie that's gotta be a contender for most wire work. At least half of it is people whirling around - and getting stabbed. The bad guys are gods with magic powers but they do their dirty work with good ol' fashioned stabbings. Really charming.

  Reina!!!!