What a film! It takes you right back to the eighties. Everyone has to decide for themselves whether this is a good film, but for me it was far too weak. The actors are constantly stressing themselves out, as you'd expect from Japanese films. Overacting at every second! But the story is told so slowly and sluggishly that my face literally fell asleep and in the second half of the film I hoped it would end soon. It's actually terrible that I have to report something like this, because the effects are really bombastically good!
The extremely successful atomic breath, with the huge explosion that follows, was simply gigantic every time! I would have liked to have seen more of that. (Speaking of which: I can't help but think that Oppenheimer (2023) could have taken a leaf out of my book 😜).
The drama and post-war history of Japan might have been interesting, but it was told in such a boring way that I lost interest in the characters after the first 20 minutes. In my opinion, the two hours could easily have been shortened to 40 minutes and it would have been a better film. Because even if this film is considered the very first in the Godzilla timeline, new viewers are given absolutely no explanation of how Godzilla came to be and what it's all about.
Although the special effects are extremely well done, and Godzilla often even looked cute in his original appearance <3, I can only give the film a really well-intentioned 5/10 stars due to the weakly told story.
The extremely successful atomic breath, with the huge explosion that follows, was simply gigantic every time! I would have liked to have seen more of that. (Speaking of which: I can't help but think that Oppenheimer (2023) could have taken a leaf out of my book 😜).
The drama and post-war history of Japan might have been interesting, but it was told in such a boring way that I lost interest in the characters after the first 20 minutes. In my opinion, the two hours could easily have been shortened to 40 minutes and it would have been a better film. Because even if this film is considered the very first in the Godzilla timeline, new viewers are given absolutely no explanation of how Godzilla came to be and what it's all about.
Although the special effects are extremely well done, and Godzilla often even looked cute in his original appearance <3, I can only give the film a really well-intentioned 5/10 stars due to the weakly told story.
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