Review of Godzilla (1998) by Matthew T — 23 Sep 2014
Okay I'm going to re review this thing again in a calm manner unlike last time. But, to all respect this is a horrible movie and very insulting to the country it came from.there are few good things from this movie but not enough to save it though but here we go.
The characters for starters are awful there not very smart don't act all that well and most are just more cliche stereotypes, though one character I do like is Jean Reno for his very heroic feel and hey he fights for his country. I was gonna say the same to Matthew but due to the director who does not into character depth its kind of sad and to be honest I think he would have been good 2014 no offense Aaron Taylor. I could say the to military and I will their dumb those the beast in ways that don't make sense and they due way more damage and are not even trying to hit him proving way before the end that you could murder him with just one pistol and how does that blind maybe but instant kill no.
Godzilla the character its self a force of nature a fabled horrific memory of the past the terrifying impact but yet has his own surprisingly powerful personality that makes kind of human they due not follow. the monster is nothing more then a gopher like creature that destroys building all just because he can't control his waging tail while eating fish and just laying eggs while ripping off Jurassic park and to less care and too little character there is no reason for him to be there. worst of all they make Godzilla pregnant that's by far the worst re image or concept of a character that had so was so much more that its like down right insulting they literally make jokes about it in the movie like there trying to kill the character itself.
Lastly the worst thing that this the movie has done is the story, setting, plot and the theme. Godzilla was also just a character but he was the main point or idea of the flick so he reflected all emotions, characters, and the entire setting and theme its self which dark, tragic, serious, realistic and brings out a strong powerful story making him one of the best movie characters I have ever seen that was Godzilla which why I'm a fan of him. but they didn't do no such thing the setting was more comical/romance and the story was all over the place not focusing on any thing and the theme, bad, really bad it was more of that old common naturalistic style theme where the monster is evil until the end mankind is evil for kill to make us wonder what have we be What?! there was no bad mankind trying to find a way compromise with issue even though despite Gojira/Godzilla's godly strength and invulnerability he had no dealing with them but post world war 2 there was a fear of control, power and the risk of nukes they treated him like one making us wonder if there is a right answer or not.
One last thing I did like was the introduction of zilla, though it was not done well but the guy look like he would've had an character that was smart, clever and very protective over love ones but never got that until toho made a TV show for him and amped his abilities.but for know that I have say I give this film a .5 out of 5 stars because you know why.
This review of Godzilla (1998) was written by Matthew T on 23 Sep 2014.
Godzilla has generally received mixed reviews.
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