Director Shinji Higuchi does a routine job with the familiar elements and the film is strictly for ardent fans of this sort of thing.

There’s no winking self-awareness here, no digital recreation of costume seams or slightly visible wires, just an appreciation for the fact that the original series — colorful, imaginative, ambitious — had an aesthetic that worked in its own way.

Come for the epic ass kickings, stay for the silliness of giant monsters battling a huge metal man.

The camera is put in angles you’ve never seen before, at least not in a superhero movie.