Boring as hell. Makes the 1998 Godzilla look awesome
Holy hell was this bad. Its been long since I wrote a film review and I generally like films if they can entertain me. But this was just boring. This film was made for the fans of old Godzilla movies. If you are one of them, go watch it. Everyone else, skip it.
The movie is about Aaron Taylor-Johnson. its not about Bryan Cranston. Also, Mr. Johnson is playing a 80's action hero. He is there as a child for the first attack. He is an adult during the 'birth' of first monster (MUTO), he is there when Godzillla fights Muto, he escapes from female Muto, he is there when Godzilla fights them both, he destroys their eggs, he arms a bomb, then tries to disarm the same bloody bomb, sacrifices himself to take the same bomb away.. If you can recognize this pattern, congrats, you saw any one of the awesome 80's-90's action movies. This is something Arnold Schwarzenegger was good at doing. And Aaron Taylor-Johnson played it so straight that it might be a documentary for military procedural. And it was painful. I however believe that its probably the director and producers fault for making a movie about monster fights so damn serious.
On the matter of monster fights, there are four in total. And we see two. The first fight was a particular slap to everyone's face. The cinema was dead silent expecting a fight. And we saw the highlights on a news reel.
That is stupid. If you didnt have the budget, dont write huge set pieces.
Also, the movie is dark. Not in theme. But actually bloody dark. Also there's smoke everywhere. Its like the city is in a sauna. I could barely see whats happening in the third fight.
Say what you want about the 1998 Godzilla. It was made by people who knew how to film action. When the audience is squinting through darkness and smoke in the cinema to see the monster from the bloody poster, someone messed up.
Unfortunately, this film has the tripe reviewers blush about. All those satirical bite they want, its there. But its just so boring. And I wouldnt mind a slow movie. But its Godzilla. So expect good reviews from famous critics.But this is boring and best avoidable.
