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Too much of everything

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Godzilla is a horrible little bastard in this movie. He is truly badass. For once, he has no redemption, to the point that previous alien controlled villains are now guardians of the earth. This film grabs the human element by taking a father and daughter as an army captain and a TV reporter. The effects here are just fantastic. All the puppets, suits, CGI looks great, and we get more Godzilla/Human interaction than ever. I loved the shot where Godzilla arrives and throws a boat into the air, only for it to fall straight down onto the camera again. We get some exceptional long takes of cityscapes. It's fascinating to see so many monsters beat each other in what looks like a real city. These Godzilla movies also have the confidence to just let it play out rather than making me sick with constant edits. With a subtitle of Giant Monsters All Out Attack, you know this is gonna be good. Just a shame that Mothra and Ghidorah were slightly out of character.

First I should probably mention that I don't really care much for the Millennium Series, it's silly, unorganized, etc. Except for this movie. This movie was actually pretty good. It has some pretty good acting. For a monster movie that is. The effects for this movie are also pretty good. Sometimes, during a Godzilla movie I can look closely to see Mothra's stings. But this movie was good in hiding them so they were not in sight. Now time to talk about the story line. At first I didn't like it, but now I thing its pretty good. The story line is a reboot ignoring all except for the original. To bad to note that buy this time all the millennium movies were reboot which is one of the reasons why I don't really like the millennium series. But as you all ready now this is the one installment I like. So I say check it out.

One of the longest movie titles ever, but still one of the best G-films of all time, second only to "Gojira". Where do I begin? I know, the crew, all veterans from the acclaimed Heisei Gamera trilogy. Shusuke Kaneko directs this film with the same aura of spectacle he did in the 90s, truly making him one of my top ten directors. This is definitely the darkest film in the series, with Godzilla at his top evil.First off, the dubbing is excellent in my opinion (although the DVD has the original Japanese track) and the characters portrayed by the actors were very well represented. I think Ryudo Uzaki , who played as Lt. General Tachibana, gave the best performance. He delivers a lot of the emotions in the film, especially in the scene where he recounts his parents' deaths to the original Godzilla in 1954. The story by Kaneko, Keiichi Hasegawa and Mashiro Yokatani was a very well done piece of writing. This leads to one of my top reasons for loving this movie: there is tons of monster-human contact. In other words, the humans and monsters interact with one another, specifically Godzilla. I believe the best two examples of this is one: when the couple look up while taking pictures at Hakone to see Godzilla staring down at them from behind a hillside, who knocks boulders on top of several tourist manically. The second, when that girl in her hospital bed thinks Godzilla has spared her when all of a sudden his tail slams against the hospital, causing the whole building to collapse! There are plenty of others and all are excellent displays of SFX and Kaneko's view on Godzilla.Now, to the monsters. Godzilla looks great, if not a bit chunky, but it works. He looks incredibly evil, with pure white eyes, a nice touch. Plus the very mobile head and curling lips add to his awesomeness. In this film, not only is Godzilla attacking Japan out of his own desire, but also because apparently the souls of the victims of WWII inhabit his body, who want revenge because Japan is trying to forget about the war, and to a degree, the original Godzilla's attack in 1954. I think it was a very good way to visualize Godzilla. His heat ray is beautifully brought to life, especially when he takes his first shot at Baragon. Baragon is a very nicely done monster and the fight between him and Godzilla maybe one of the best I've ever seen in the monster business. Mothra looks great, if not incredibly smaller than she usually is, but it works. The cocoon scene was beautiful plus the exploding stingers was also a nice effect. King Ghidorah returned, and he looks good for the most part. What I actually didn't like about him was that he was small and weak compared to Godzilla, instead of being huge and imposing as he usually is. However this is not enough to bring the film down, because Kaneko makes up for it with Ghidorah's stunning entrance and (few) flight scenes.The SFX were superb, especially at adding monsters next to humans. One of the best moments was when Godzilla hurled Baragon into that parking lot, filled with people and buses. The jet sequence was incredible and showed us a new era of blowing up jets, along with the JSDF scene with the soldiers can actually be seen in the explosions. Beautifully done. Like G3, this film can actually stand up to Hollywood productions. The drill missile, D3, was a very nice new weapon, as well as the Satsuma subs. The monster CGI was fantastic!! Mothra looked great computer-animated, but Ghidorah's revival scene didn't look as good, mainly because he was so illuminated. The three-headed dragon looked far better as he was flying over Yokohama Harbor. Not to mention the deflection-attack he uses against Godzilla's heat ray makes up for it. The CGI Godzilla swimming was damn good I must say ( the CGI aquatic Godzilla 2000 scene was HORRIBLE). The Yokohama set is huge and well-built and the end battle is one to remember!! It manages to involve the cast and serves as a emotional peak for both the monsters and the humans. Plus, the score was one of Koh Otani's best ever. It was modern, and yet still very much like the original Godzilla films, the good ole Ifukbe days. Otani defiantly knows how to keep the flow of a film through his very original music.The ending is amazing to say the least, not that I'll spoil it for those who haven't seen it. My personal favorite of the Millenuim series, matching up to "Gojira", GMK is pretty bad-ass!

The "Gozilla" movie series has gotten a bad reputation over the years as overlong toy commercials for undiscriminating children and nerds with no standards. Well, the next time someone knocks the Godzilla movies, you should show them this entry.This is the way Godzilla himself was meant to be. Not a giant superhero like in the movies from the sixties and seventies. Not some big animal just trying to make it in the world like in the nineties series. The Godzilla depicted here is all powerful, pure evil, and nigh-unstoppable, the just way he was in 1954.The thing most people don't realize is that the more serious a giant monster movie is, the better. And Shusuke Kaneko takes his monsters seriously, as anyone who's seen the 90s "Gamera" movies will tell you.Unlike most of the series where cities were destroyed yet casualties were barely (if ever) mentioned or shown (you'd see people running away or standing around watching, but hardly ever killed), when a city gets destroyed in this movie, a lot people die and we see it. We see the people in the buildings just before they topple or are crushed. We see the people running and screaming just before they're vaporized by Godzilla's beam. We see the soldiers fighting Godzilla die instead of him just frying seemingly unmanned toy jets and tanks. In an early scene where, a woman gets pounded when all the pots and pans in her kitchen fall from the walls and shelf just because of Godzilla's footsteps.The "Godzilla verses other monster(s)" action is at some of it's all time best here. No Saturday morning style, over the top, highly unbelievable fights here. Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah fight Godzilla with their claws, jaws, and a few simple abilities (Baragon's burrowing, Mothra's stingers, Ghidorah's electric bite) instead of everyone firing beams at each other with little or no effect and using silly wrestling moves.The monsters themselves come off particularly effective this time around. Godzilla is very fearsome and looks the more like a dinosaur than ever, using his mouth ray as the ultimate weapon. Mothra gets new hornet-like look that makes her(?) much more intimidating. Baragon gets some great moments, mainly because he was barely used in the older movies. He makes surprisingly good use of his meager burrowing ability and puts up a good fight for a little guy. One wishes that Kaneko had been allowed to use Angilas and Varan like he wanted to before Toho made him use Mothra and Ghidorah just because they're more popular and would attract a bigger audience.Ghidorah, sadly, doesn't fare so well. While the idea of Godzilla's mortal enemy playing the hero is kind of fitting, there's something about his new look that doesn't stick. He's much shorter, has somewhat dog like faces, his wings are droopy and almost useless until he powers up near the end, with his mouth beams are sadly absent until said power up.The humans characters are the best here since the first Godzilla movie. For once you actually care about these people instead of wishing they'd hurry up and go away. The humans here act like actual people with actual concerns instead of the usual gang of annoying, unlikable idiots and whiners with lame personalities and motivations.The plot has a lot to do with spiritual energy and mysticism, but Kaneko makes it work surprisingly well, which is a nice change of pace from all that junk about aliens, weird mutations and high tech science mumbo jumbo that doesn't make much sense that the Toho writers like to fall back on.A lot of people were initially disappointed with it for some reason. Something about "hurried pace and not enough development". But in future years, when compared to lesser entries of the Godzilla series, this will probably be considered the second best Godzilla movie, after the first one of course.