It's Gojira!

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2014)

In 1997, Roland Emmerich decided, after the colossal success of his "Independence Day" of 1996, to repeat the same procedure in spirit and wreck the world with an over the top sci-fi menace, probably hoping for a reprise of the same box office gross. He remade Toho's king of monsters for the US market, "Godzilla". Unfortunately, what resulted in the endeavor was a so much sillier and clumsier movie than his former "War of the Worlds" spin off. The audiences quickly recognized it as such and pretty much stayed away. The flick about a mutated sea-monster coming to Manhattan to lay its eggs/wreak havoc left a bad taste for everybody due to its goofy actors and completely implausible scenes, even for a brainless popcorn blockbuster. The movie tanked at the grosses, was tarnished by bad reviews and soon forever ended the Dean Devlin-Roland Emmerich writing-producing collaboration. It took many years on for any studio deciding to make a remake on the same plot line. Then, in 2013 a finally decent one emerged and got a green light. Gareth Edwards' "Godzilla" of 2014 is an immensely more entertaining and more serious project than the former one. The digital effect sequences are a million times more on the ground, the actors and their screenplay relationships too, which is the winning combo. The spectators loved this version of the prehistoric reptile time around and gave it roughly 200 million on domestic sales alone, which is a fertile ground for the works on a sequel. And it is on it's way too, slowly from the depths, but sure in quality, just like Gojira.