Godzilla rules

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2014)

Godzilla Godzilla was born in 54 in Japan and since then the island country has given the world 28 films. We found out important facts like Godzilla being a dinosaur, that mutated with and atomic explosion and he is a hero too in some of the films plus he's even surprisingly been a zombie too. There has been 9 different Godzilla designs in the films including the US versions too. The last film was directed by Kitamura and was named the Final War, it was nicely done and sent the old monster into retirement with respect. Then Toho announced that it will not be making any Godzilla films for 10 years. Of course the large monster inspired US film makers so Roland Emmerich directed the remake in 1998. I think the film was good in certain ways and in others not so much. In its time the visuals were good but they did some things in that film that I just don't know what to do with for instance Matthew Broderick as a hole and baby Godzillas In 2003 Tristar's license ran out even though they planed a trilogy (despite the fact that it was pretty successful they never made the sequels, most probably because of the criticisms, Final Wars and Toho) So we come now to a time that makes the rehabilitation of the monster possible with another studio. The new monsters parents are now Legendary Pictures and Warner, who not sparing money or talent tried to resurrect the king of monsters. First off they got the talented, young director Gareth Edwards to helm the project, who is not just a fan of the original series but who has already proved his worth with monsters and they left the story and the scrip up to talented people too. Plus mixing all this together was the 160 million dollar budget. And they brought to life the biggest Godzilla so far that still resembles the Japanese one. I for one liked Warner's monster movie so I was expecting a lot from Godzilla. So I'm not going to spoil anything, but I can say that if someone wants to see a Godzilla film they won't be disappointed. If you want more than just that, then you might be. The film isn't just for fans, but it definitely is for people who like huge visual productions. It's a visual orgy and Godzilla looks great too, you could only really criticize that the monster is maybe show a little less than in Pacific Rim. I think this film will be really judged by what expectations are. If you want to be entertained and can be by everything that a film entitled Godzilla can give you then yeah it'll be even better than you imagined. The director did a great job as fan. I could maybe only criticize him about two things the trailer was dark, depressing and the actual film was only that in a few scenes. Plus, he may not have been able to really do a good job with the characters. The actors are okay, they got noteworthy ones, Ken Watanabe of course is the best, maybe beside him Elizabeth Olsen stand out and that's when we get to the second negative criticism of the director. First off let me say the story is pretty set, you can't do much with it so I don't even want to knock that, but that said the script is pppfff rubbish. Almost like Pacific Rim, maybe with the only difference being that while there the story here was just plain insane and you knew it, here it becomes even more embarrassing plus the characters are all simple and one dimensional, they just didn't write it well enough. And the even bigger problem was that this wasn't the fault of the actors. It was really felt like it wasn't the actors who stunk up a few scenes, but the scrip and the director. Of course you can always ask yourself the question is any of this important at all? Its just a monster movie. But this stuff is the difference between an okay, a good film or one of the years best. I think the film was good, but it could have been one of the years best, and really if you don't see yourself enjoying a film about a 350 foot monster wrecking stuff you'll maybe only think the film is okay. I thought it was good, that to me translates to like 9 out of 10, but if I wasn't partial to monster movies maybe only a 6.
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