stomp tokyo said "the monster scenes are generally well done" but criticized the film's "incoherence," saying: "it's a shame that kitamaura couldn't choose a tone for the film, instead shifting the movie's mood wildly from scene to scene." lenny taguchi of monster zero criticized keith emerson's soundtrack but gave "final wars" an overall favorable review, calling it a "fun and good" movie that "tries many things, and generally succeeds at almost all of them."