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Shin Godzilla (2016)

Directed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi

Drama | Horror | Science Fiction

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Overview

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens.  A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster’s weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower.  But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Rated PG-13 | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Hiroki Hasegawa | Yutaka Takenouchi | Satomi Ishihara | Kengo Kora | Satoru Matsuo | Mikako Ichikawa | Issey Takahashi | Kanji Tsuda | Shinya Tsukamoto | Toru Nomaguchi | Daisuke Kuroda | Ren Osugi | Kimiko Yo | Akira Emoto | Sei Hiraizumi | Toru Tezuka | Kenichi Yajima | Akira Hamada | Ikuji Nakamura | Tetsu Watanabe | Jun Kunimura | Shingo Tsurumi | Jun Hashimoto | Pierre Taki | Takumi Saito | KREVA | Ken Mitsuishi | Kyusaku Shimada | Taro Suwa | Yû Kamio | Arata Furuta | Morooka Moro | Kôsei Katô | Shohei Abe | Keisuke Koide | Hairi Katagiri | Suzuki Matsuo | Takahiro Miura | Yôta Kawase | Ren Mori | Atsuko Maeda | Kazuo Hara | Isshin Inudô | Akira Ogata | Hideaki Anno | Kihachi Okamoto | Mansai Nomura | Mayumi Ogawa | Katsuhiko Yokomitsu | Yusuke Sugiyama | Shô Oyamada

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Still have lots of mixed feelings on this film. Most of the plot deals with the inability of modern bureaucracy-by-committee to make effective or timely decisions as well Japan’s co-dependence on America and inability to act unilaterally.

The final form of Godzilla is pretty terrifying and harkens back to the original Godzilla, but is largely undone by his googly eyes, lack of purpose and just general lack of movement. There’s nothing spectacular or awe-inspiring by the way he seems to glide through Tokyo; not much real stomping or directed attacks except for the scenes where he shoots shit out of his mouth, tail and dorsal fins, which were pretty cool.

And when he runs out of energy he just… takes a nap in the middle of the city, tail suspended in mid-air?

I did like the final shot of his tail which seemed to hint… at offspring perhaps? Or the bodies of atomic bomb victims?

And the professor who committed suicide left an origami puzzle to figure out how to stop him and save millions of lives and Japan itself? Fuck you dude.

I’m not opposed to a digitally rendered Godzilla from Toho but if this is the best they can muster up, then maybe just go back to miniatures and rubber suits.

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