Godzilla's Spiritual Successor - The King of Monsters is Back

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2008)

THIS is a monster movie. THIS is what it felt like to see Godzilla in theaters in 1954.
Excellent acting, AMAZING screenplay, AMAZING camera work. This theme pushes our current perspective on film, and we will see many copies soon to come. The characters were very well developed and full, and reacted realistically.
I really appreciate the camera work and all the ass-busting this must've taken. Truly a heap of work, getting all the authentic shakes of a handcam but not losing focus on specific points. We also saw a lot of good humor during the slow scenes, which kept me in good spirits.
The story was pretty amazing too, as extra-dimensional creatures (or whatever) probably need to be nuked to be truly defeated. Hell, knowing the writer, the sequel will probably involve time-space rifts dumping thousands of these monstrosities into cities with concentrations of small, high-drama-laden groups of friends. But I must digress. really appreciate the actions scenes and how the monster was not easily felled as Godzilla was in the crap-tacular '97 American rendition. The whole point of a monster in a story is to reflect the true nature of your characters under duress; it is sometimes a shortcut to delivering high amounts of drama with relative ease. The previous 20 Godzilla movies missed that point.
I also really enjoyed the tribute Godzilla song at the end! lol!
I remember first seeing the teaser for this movie and immediately screaming "GOJIRA!!!!!" in the theater- I was wrong. Or was I?