But his alter ego was Ultraman who came to capture the monster that took over Udo's body. From Udo's transformation, Maki is also suspected to turn into a monster and gets arrested.
Prior to this event, another defense force pilot Udo (Kenya Oosumi) encountered a similar ball of light (this time blue in color) and transformed into a monster. Defense force F15 pilot Shunichi Maki (Tetsuya Bessho) encounters a red sphere from outer space.
The movie closely follows the story featured in the first episode of the original Ultraman. The movie is targeted for more mature audience, and it was made in the same time period as the Ultraman Nexus that also featured a darker mood. This is a darker Ultraman that's set in a parallel universe. *** Just re-watched the film and didn't enjoy it quite as much the second time around (the first half is fairly uneventful), although the final smack-down between Ultraman and The One is still a lot of fun.*** Revised rating: 7/10 It's nothing particularly revolutionary perhaps, but it's spectacular and consistently entertaining, and as far as I am concerned, a great way to spend an hour and a half or so of your time. Either way, the film is lots of fun, with a really nicely designed creature in the shape of The One, a hideous, armour-plated, life-form absorbing beast with three heads (one that shoots energy blasts) and a massive pair of wings, which ultimately ends up several hundred feet high-but he's nothing that Ultraman can't handle the two battle it out on land and in the skies causing mayhem and destruction on a massive scale before the hero inevitably vanquishes the monster and peace returns to downtown Tokyo. Even though the rubber suits and miniature model cities have been enhanced by CGI, this 2005 re-imagining of the enduring Ultraman character still has that typically cheesy kaiju aesthetic, possibly because the film-makers didn't have a big enough budget to make things look as slick as they might have liked, although I prefer to think that it was done intentionally in order to give the movie that unique charm one expects from a Japanese 'superhero versus monster' movie.
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