Ultraman Cosmos vs Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle (2003)
Article 6087 by Dave Sindelar
Directed by Kitaura Shimi
Featuring Taiyo Sugiura, Daisuke Shima, Kaori Sakagami
Country: Japan
What it is: Ultraman in epic mode

When Ultraman Cosmos comes to the rescue of a beleaguered space center, Ultraman Justice shows up and turns against him, helping his foes destroy the center. It turns out a huge cosmic being has condemned the human race to death and Ultraman Justice has joined the cause. Is Earth doomed?
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This is the third of what I can definitely call the Ultraman Cosmos movie trilogy. It takes place several years after the last movie. Though the Eyes organization has been modified, all of the familiar characters show up (including several monsters) and in fact, though he is the center of the story, Musashi is mostly absent throughout the middle of the movie. This one really tries to bet big, with more difficult challenges, lots of fighting and destruction, and the inevitable scenes where we think it’s all over only to have the filmmakers pull another magic rabbit out of the hat. I commend the movie’s ambition, but after a while it just gets exhausting, and I find myself preferring the TV shows for their relative modesty.

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