Oooh, new Toho kaiju movie? I'm in!
A scared man lands down at an aircraft repair base.. and Godzilla attacks! With that, he is trapped in his own war, as signified by this giant dinosaur like monster, but having external demons doesn't help with internal demons.
This is going back to Godzilla as the atomic war metaphour he was before, and, moreover, actually gets presence on screen, unlike other Godzilla movies! Toho knows what we want!
And this is shot brilliantly. We are with people as they face dealing with post-war life on a small scale, as well as having to battle this giant stomping devastating analogy monster. We get a good balance of scope, and while some moments you can spot comings, it's still wonderfully portrayed.
Although note that this is subtitled, so some people might be upset by that. It's a Japanese movie, what did you expect? At least we didn't get a reedit with an American journalist badly inserted into it...
I'm not expecting this to reboot a whole new series of Godzilla movies... but I wouldn't say no.
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