Apparently You Love It or Hate It

Rating: 6/10 (30 May 2014)

I have to say I was disappointed with this film. I was so intrigued by the first half hour as we were brought into the events in a secret facility in Japan. One of the directors watches his wife die after a nuclear breech. Now we cut into the future. The director is still out there. He has become a crusader against the secrecy of this type of research. His son, who lost his other in the earlier incident, has become military and is really annoyed with his father's campaign. Now we throw all that aside. Dad has evidence, but has been arrested for treasonous acts. They see him as more of a nuisance than anything, but they have their own fish to fry. He manages to get back to the house where they lived (which is in rubble) and recover some old floppy disks. During this time, some sort of huge flat headed flying creature with spider legs has come to life. It is causing incredible destruction. Godzilla, who apparently is no secret, is moving around in the ocean. He is on a collision course with these other things. While the special effects are good, there is something really lacking in the story line, in the fights themselves, in the whole attitude toward these monster, and just a sort of malaise. I came to the theater excited because at midnight in 1957, I stayed up past my bedtime to her Raymond Burr in the Americanized version of "Godzilla" talk about the destruction of Tokyo. I have since watched so many of these movies, including the forgettable Matthew Broderick one, and I had hoped for some kind of earth shattering, apocalyptic presentation. For me, it was just an ordinary monster movie with little new to offer.