The Guyver 2

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Summary: A great Sci Fi epic!!! Don't be fooled by the 1st film!
Review: "For anyone who saw the first film "The Guyver" with Mark Hamill, don't let it disillusion you from checking out this Asian super heroe's 2nd live action film. With a mightier storyline penned by the same guys who wrote the screenplay for the 1st X Men film along with special f/x veteran & visionary Steve Wang pull out all the big guns with much superior f/x, a beefier costume, more monsters, more blood, more action, etc.!!! It's a definite treat for the eyes & anyone who enjoyed the old Swamp Thing or Spawn live action movies. It's campy & full of drama with some pretty cheesey dialogue but that's what makes it so darn entertaining! A definate blood & guts cult classic! Hopefully Steve Wang (Predator,Beetle Juice, etc.) will do a third installment at some point in time. The anime series is great too!

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Summary: Guyver 2: Dark Hero
Review: Even though this film was made in 1993, it is still one of the best sci-fi action flicks you'll see, even 10 years after its release. I remember seeing the first one and thinking 'It's good', but when i saw this one, i was blown away. Better actors, better story and better costumes, not forgetting better action. It's so involving you wish you where the Guyver. David Hayter is a vast improvement on the original guy who played Sean Barker, and just in case you didn't know, David Hayter wrote the screen play for the excellent X-Men movie and did the voice of Solid Snake for Metal Gear Solid one and two. I didn't see the anime series until a few years later and was blown away by that to. So to all you anime/sci-fi fans, i recommend you buy this one, and get the first one, if only to make sure you know what's going on in Guyver 2. Even though it's been 10 years, i still hope they get round to doing a third Guyver to bring it full circle. Well, go on, buy it. Go on... what are you waiting for.

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Summary: An Underrated and Relatively Unknown Little Actioner
Review: Fans of the Guyver Manga, Anime and original live-action flick will get a kick out of this sometimes cheesy, but thoroughly entertaining flick. Sporting talent that includes Director Steven Wang (who also directed Drive, the Power Rangers Movie, and did special FX for a wide range of Horror and Sci-Fi movies) and David Hayter (voice actor for Solid Snake and writer of the X-Men movie screenplay) in the lead role of Sean Barker, Guyver 2 improves upon the original with a stronger emphasis on martial arts, drama, and character development.

Special effects, such as the transformation of Sean into the Guyver are either cleverly hidden, or done courtesy of CGI that still manages to impress nowadays. A well-done score by Les Claypool III helps add a dark mood and sense of urgency to many scenes, particularly fight scenes.

The majority of people seem to either love or hate this film, and I fall into the latter category; it's definitely gots its weak points with some cheesy villain character designs, gangster cliches (as depicted in the opening intro sequence), and the usual romance involving a cynical woman who eventually warms to a misunderstood hero. But all in all, it's definitely worth a rental for Sci-Fi fans who want some high quality cinematic junk food.

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Summary: The best we can hope for...
Review: Guyver fans across the universe will undoubtedly recognize their favorite bio-boosting hero starring in this live-action movie...

What they don't realize is that the movie is absolute ... compared to the anime or manga.

The movie is a cheesy, poorly written adaptation of the anime series. Although better than the first movie (by far!), this flick still feels forced, unnecessary and constrained, as though the producers ran out of budget money and couldn't afford to make it any better.

If this is your first experience with the Guyver, go out to your local import store and buy the anime videos: this movie pales in comparison to them. If you're a dedicated Guyver fan considering purchasing these movies...don't. Even at [money], the movie isn't worth it.

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Summary: One of the best
Review: I think that this movie is better than the first one. Plus, this movie is good enough to be in anybody's movie collection. To help better explain how sweet this movie is I am going to compare it to Spawn. The reason why I think these two movies are similar (and sweet) is because of the theme that both movies hold, how the main characters changed (mentally and physically) after recieving their new powers, how awsome their costumes were, and the carnage each of them released upon their enemies.

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Summary: A sequal which succeds where the orignal failed.
Review: I was a fan of the Japanese anime before I saw the live action version, and while I thought it was awsome at the time (I was 13 I think) I now see it as a cheesy B movie. The fact is that in the original movie they just didn't take the material seriously. The treated it as a kids movie, but it was to gory for kids so they decided to advertise it as an adult movie, and they failed.
Many scenes in the movie where actually designed to make fun of the fact that there were genetically enhanced monsters and add to that the cheesy fight sequances and you've got a bad B movie.

It really sucks that you have to watch the first one to understand where this one comes from but it's actually worth it because this is so much better! First of all the actually took the material seriously and didn't gear it towards the kiddies. David Hayter (The Guyver) is about a million times the actor that what's his name from the first one was. The script was actually very solid and had a real point to it. The action was excelent, especially for such a low budget film. The fight choreography is top notch and overall the only real problem was one or two bad lines of dialouge, but oh well. It's still B movie material (Movies with shape changing monsters and cyborg superheroes always will be), but this is as good as it gets!

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Summary: Fantastic comic-book movie!
Review: The first movie (released as "Mutronics" in UK/Europe for some reason) was good but a bit too silly here & there.

This sequel is everything you should expect from a live-action Guyver movie - great fight scenes, blood & guts, fantastic special effects (especially for it's time), cool costumes and scary, disgusting looking (rubber!) monsters.

If they made a Guyver movie today, it would be CGI and zappy-zap effects and explosions all over the place.
Guyver 2 (or Guyver: Dark Hero) has discreet, early CGI which doesn't overpower the rough & readiness of this great movie. And it has to be said: The transformation scenes are really cool - the best being when he jumps off a cliff and shouts Guyver and transforms in mid-air!

Overall, this is a fantastic piece of sci-fi/comic book junk-food cinema which is still as great now as it was nearly a decade ago.

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Summary: Everything the first *should* have been...
Review: The first movie was junk, and a complete and utter disappointment on just about every possible level.

This film was about as good as an anime to live action adaptation can be without a big hollywood budget behind it. It kept the mood of the original manga and anime, and even though the film was probably on an even tighter budget than the first, Steve Wang did a great job of masking the special effect deficiencies with good lighting and camera work. The acting was surprisingly good for this kind of film, with the lead David Hayter being the standout as the Guyver's tormented host, and the fight scenes were very well done.

I'm eagerly anticipating the remastered widescreen DVD version, and will be picking it up the day it's released. Thanks, New Line!

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Summary: A Good Sequal
Review: When I saw "The Guyver 1", I thought that it was one of the very best superhero/sci-fi films ever made, ranking on a list of greats like "BatMan", "SuperMan", "Spider-Man", and "DareDevil." When I saw "Guyver 2", I thought that they had captured the essence of a superhero that didn't know if he was a good guy or not, like the same dilemma that was bestowed upon DareDevil in his film.

This has all the makings of a good "Comicbook-to-movie" film that it's over and above any understanding that superhero fans don't check out this film. It has good fight scenes (although some of the dialogue is a bit campy) and the special effects are good considering that it's an indie film. This is a must-see for all sci-fi and superhero fans alike.

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Summary: the good one
Review: When I saw the first one I thaught thats a good movie. upon seeing this one i thought it was kind of sillythe fact that he said "guyver" before transforming(keep in mind that i'v never seen the cartoon,which i'm trying to get)but when I realized that the second one was almost exactly like the one comic of the series that I have.I reccomend screw the first one,who wants to see Mark Hamil turn into a giant cockroach anyway(that is the ONLY part of the movie that remotely makes sence),and buy this one. and is any film companys are reading these reviews me and about 3000 other fans are waiting for the third one.