his name is godzilla

Rating: 10/10 (31 May 2014)

The highlight for me of this movie was when Dr. Ishiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe) seriously makes the statement, "They call him Godzilla" as he shares the tale of this urban legend. In this movie, after a nuclear reactor meltdown it awakens a roach looking creature in Japan. This creature seeks to mate and travels the world looking for radiation and its male counterpart. In comes Godzilla, ready to save the day with its fire breath and larger body that tears into major cities as it fights these two larger "cockroaches". The effects are pretty amazing as downtown Las Vegas and San Francisco are destroyed, the power grid failure makes you sense how vulnerable our modern apparatuses can be. Our military seems amateurish as it seeks to destroy these threats. Many scenes are reminiscent and pay homage to past Godzilla renditions when you see folks running and stopping in their tracks as they yell out "Godzilla".