Saturday, 7 March 2015

Over sized monster

Godzilla (2014)

Directed by Gareth Edwards this reboot of the popular monster franchise stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen. An American military officer heads to Japan to find his father who thinks that there is a conspiracy to cover up what caused a nuclear meltdown.

There is a lot that this film does not do such as have any characters of interest but it does deliver on the prerequisite of plenty of monster inspired destruction. Unlike the original film there is no real depth here but I suppose it does have some enjoyable moments even if the attempts to force Americanization on what is clearly a Japanese story is slightly awkward in places. The special effects are clearly just a CGI extravaganza and disappointingly despite having three great actresses cast all there parts combined don't add up to a decent role.


3/5

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