This is not to say that the new Godzilla has no redeeming factors. What was I thinking?įourth, there are three creatures here, which makes it all slightly confusing, and more to the point: (a) the first two, who are called MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms), look somewhat plastic-metallic and reminded me a bit of those transformers in the Transformers series (b) Godzilla himself is definitely impressive but considering that almost two decades have elapsed since Emmerich made his film, considering the dramatic leaps technology has taken since then, he’s not a particularly earth-shatteringly evolved version of the reptile from that earlier film. Third, those scientists in Japan – which is where the early part of the film is set – look laughably clueless in comparison with the American scientist who breaks into their work complex… But of course Americans would know better than the Japanese in a Hollywood film. Second, instead of rushing us through the scientific mumbo-jumbo that is inescapable in such a film, it has a bunch of people just going on and on and on with their jargon before the actual excitement begins. This Hollywood remake falls short on too many fronts.įirst, it takes incredibly long to give us our first sighting of the gigantic lizard. Godzilla – or Gojira as the Japanese say – has spawned numerous films, television shows and other art works in multiple languages. Like most great monster stories, this one too is meant as an allegory for the potential impact of human interference in nature.
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Sixteen years after Roland Emmerich generated shock and awe among my generation of Hollywood film viewers with his take on this Japanese movie monster, Gareth Edwards’ re-telling of the tale comes with just a whiff of a story and adds nothing so dramatically improved by way of special effects to justify a remake.
I’ll make this short: Godzilla is a damp squib. Cast : Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen