Tuesday 20 May 2014

Godzilla 2014 review

Monster film!


Plot

The film focuses on a family and the events leading from a 1999 reactor accident or so we are lead to believe. 14 years into the future and we get to find out what actually caused the reactor accident, we experience the birth of Muto and what follows is its destruction on it hunt for hunger and to mate. However nature has a balance and its answer to this is Godzilla, it seems that godzilla is already known by a human organization called Monarch who has been researching and looking for him. The family is split up and we follow mainly the father who is a explosion expert in the army and he seems to be a magnet for these beasts always at the heart of action. Fast forward couple of hours and the army wants to kill them in order to save the lives of a few million lives.
There is more to it but i don't wanna spoil to much as its such a great film.


My thoughts  

So where to start, since the trailer was aired i have been looking forward to this film and what took me by surprise was the fact that this was a versus film monster vs monster and a nice back to the original style of Godzilla films where he is a savior and protector of nature. Unlike the very unpopular 1998 style of film where in fact its him/her as a destroyer of mankind.

I've seen a few people mention the fact that you don't see that much of Godzilla in the movie but the way its shot with Godzilla fighting in the background whilst we focus on Brody was good. my only concern would be the fact that the fights were short or always cut away after a min or so. If you want a monster fight watch Pacific Rim!



The design of godzilla was amazing his detail was the shit. So big and chunky looking just like the old version of him and not the lizard looking on of 98 which was practically a Jurassic park rip off.

There is some amazing camera shoot in this film, one where paratroopers are descending on San Francisco and another where its just Brody and Godzilla on the screen making eye contact.
I must admit i'm a sucker dystopian settings well in the first 15 minutes you get a fantastic shoot of a building covered in growth, reminded me of the video game Enslaved.  


The film was great not bored at all and my other half was cheering for Godzilla in the fights and even was cheering in her seat. I'm very excited to see the next film which was recently rumoured as it took so much money other the weekend 30 million.

Considering this is the 2nd film that the director has directed then its awesome i just hope he doesn't get type cast because his first director role was also a monster film.

score
Out of 5 star last night i would have gave it 5 but now id probably give it 4.5 stars just because the fights were short and not enough on screen fighting.
Must see in cinema though!

trailer


No comments:

Post a Comment