Godzilla Deserves A Better Film

Rating: 5/10 (25 September 2014)

It seems truer as films after films go by, that more technology put in a film has equated the sum of heart and mind taken out of it. The latest "Godzilla" has exhibited such technology, and also such a loss in its soul. You can't produce a film thinking of technology first, with the story much second. The result is the likes of this film: visually extravagant and mentally crippled. Certain bits are breathtaking, but they can't save the soulless whole. Human characters in this film are entirely unnecessary, worthy perhaps only to reduce costs of technologically-depended scenes. Even Godzilla himself/herself is not allowed to show more heart and mind. There is a talk about "balancing nature" from the Japanese character, and that important sentence gets totally wasted. For this film, nature balance seems to let mindless creatures fighting one another to death, with the human onlookers learning nothing. Same as "Karma", most western filmmakers translate the term almost as "irresponsibility", while the actual meaning is more dynamic, relevant, and useful to their dead-end lives. This "Godzilla" is not even enjoyable. My best guess is that this bunch of filmmakers has a death wish for Godzilla and its most famous franchise.