Rating: 4/5
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor Johnson
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor Johnson
Gareth Edwards being Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Visual Effects' Artist, made this simply outstanding. Godzilla is a rebooted version of the previous Godzilla series, but this one's totally different. Here’s the best part; it's not Godzilla vs Human! The same old boring, "Oh no! What's that thing, let's waste 145 minutes trying to defeat it with our puny guns and in the end nuke it."
NO.
This time, it's Monster vs Monster, and that’s what makes this monster flick one of the best I have seen in the Godzilla series.
There are some absolutely outstanding shots in the movie; in one we have a team of militants skydiving down and there's a zoomed out shot of it where you see the flares make beautiful red contrails or condensation trails. The one shown is a closeup but when you see the movie you will know what I’m talking about.
NO.
This time, it's Monster vs Monster, and that’s what makes this monster flick one of the best I have seen in the Godzilla series.
There are some absolutely outstanding shots in the movie; in one we have a team of militants skydiving down and there's a zoomed out shot of it where you see the flares make beautiful red contrails or condensation trails. The one shown is a closeup but when you see the movie you will know what I’m talking about.
We have three monsters in the movie this time, two Muto’s (Parasites) and then there's our hero Godzilla. The movie starts off with clips showing the killing of one of the two Godzilla with a nuke in the 50’s, and coming back to the Philippines in the 90’s, we see Ken Watanabe playing the role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, a core member of a secret organization which studies and keeps these animals undercover, finding two egg pods (The Muto’s) in a huge fossil located in a quarrying mine and while one hatches, the other is dormant.
Bryan Cranston plays the role of Joe Brody, a scientist who loses his wife in the 90’s due to the explosion of the nuclear power plant they both worked in. the explosion caused by the muto that hatched. 15 years later, his son Lieutenant Ford (Aaron Taylor Johnson) are caught trespassing in the same area as he is convinced that, that wasn’t an accident and the readings read on his computer were the same as that day. They are taken to a secret base where the monster has cocooned itself since so many years, scientists feeding and studying it. After this it is pure monster action, the Muto breaking open and destroying the base flying into the sky is a superb scene. But that's not the only superb entry, so is Godzilla's.
As the movie commences we learn that Godzilla’s here to help us and restore balance in nature by hunting down the Muto’s feeding on nuclear reactors and missiles as well as submarines. Close ups of the Godzilla are breathtaking, seeing the monster so close and realistic makes you believe in it.
Here’s the flaw; while the movie’s named Godzilla it’s only for an approx half an hour that you see Godzilla actually out of water, destroying our city but at the same time saving us. The Muto’s have hogged most of the onscreen time, but their close ups and scenes aren’t that bad, it’s a hell of an entertainment too.
A triple threat match between the monsters, a skydiving feel from the inside with scenes where you see the sky from ford's perspective as he is diving, blowing up of a truck filled with petroleum to kill Muto eggs and a climax where a pissed off mother tries to kill everyone but is beheaded with Godzilla's beam going right down her throat, and just when you think it's all over and think everyone's dead including the wounded Godzilla, there he opens his eyes, picks himself up and walks out to the ocean like a boss! It’s one hell of a movie. Who’d think that this is Gareth Edward's second film!
Brilliant effects and very good 3D.
If only the first half would have picked up pace early and Godzilla would be shown more on surface than in water(that too only his jagged spikes), overall a great entertaining monster flick; do not miss it and catch it in your nearest theatre in 3D.
-U.Pinto
Bryan Cranston plays the role of Joe Brody, a scientist who loses his wife in the 90’s due to the explosion of the nuclear power plant they both worked in. the explosion caused by the muto that hatched. 15 years later, his son Lieutenant Ford (Aaron Taylor Johnson) are caught trespassing in the same area as he is convinced that, that wasn’t an accident and the readings read on his computer were the same as that day. They are taken to a secret base where the monster has cocooned itself since so many years, scientists feeding and studying it. After this it is pure monster action, the Muto breaking open and destroying the base flying into the sky is a superb scene. But that's not the only superb entry, so is Godzilla's.
As the movie commences we learn that Godzilla’s here to help us and restore balance in nature by hunting down the Muto’s feeding on nuclear reactors and missiles as well as submarines. Close ups of the Godzilla are breathtaking, seeing the monster so close and realistic makes you believe in it.
Here’s the flaw; while the movie’s named Godzilla it’s only for an approx half an hour that you see Godzilla actually out of water, destroying our city but at the same time saving us. The Muto’s have hogged most of the onscreen time, but their close ups and scenes aren’t that bad, it’s a hell of an entertainment too.
A triple threat match between the monsters, a skydiving feel from the inside with scenes where you see the sky from ford's perspective as he is diving, blowing up of a truck filled with petroleum to kill Muto eggs and a climax where a pissed off mother tries to kill everyone but is beheaded with Godzilla's beam going right down her throat, and just when you think it's all over and think everyone's dead including the wounded Godzilla, there he opens his eyes, picks himself up and walks out to the ocean like a boss! It’s one hell of a movie. Who’d think that this is Gareth Edward's second film!
Brilliant effects and very good 3D.
If only the first half would have picked up pace early and Godzilla would be shown more on surface than in water(that too only his jagged spikes), overall a great entertaining monster flick; do not miss it and catch it in your nearest theatre in 3D.
-U.Pinto