2: Mechanical Violator Hakaider (1995)

One part Terminator, one part Robocop, and one part Judge Dredd, melted down into a dreamy tokusatsu haze flooded with stunning imagery, all out production design, and brilliant practical effects. Keita Amemiya's Mechcanical Violator Hakaider is a wild, violent genre flip, taking the expected genre trappings of Japan's colorful hyperpop tokusatsu craze and inverting it into a grungy cyberpunk nightmare covered in blood and guts. Hosts Vaughn and Jack return to enter a whole new corner of action on film, breaking down the densely packed 50 minutes of Hakaider along with the dozens of films and genre ideas it exists in conversation with.For more words, thoughts, and action adoration, find us all around the internet.Vaughn on The Twin Geeks, Letterboxd, Twitter, and Bluesky.Jack on The Twin Geeks, Letterboxd, Twitter, and Bluesky.