Godzilla (2014)
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Olsen
Synopsis:
Sixty years after its first appearance in the Pacific Ocean, a giant alpha predator emerges once more to do battle with a pair of spawning Mutos that feed off radioactivity.
Review:
The scaly monster with a roar like an express elephant returns in this nippophilic remake-cum-sequel. The environmental message of the original Toho films is reinforced, with Godzilla very much conceived as Nature's move to restore balance after Man's hubristic messing with matter. It is all cleverly done in the manner of an old monster movie, with early sightings only partially made, lots of gloom, and a tendency to cut away to a remote monitor or parallel action the minute some monster on monster fighting occurs. It does, however, more than deliver on that front, with a decidedly trashed downtown San Fran, as well as on the human level, focusing at it does on one key family unit. Alexandre Desplat provides yet another splendid score, but the film's standout moment is the freefall of the Navy Seals, played in silence to Ligeti's 2001 monolith music.
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Olsen
Synopsis:
Sixty years after its first appearance in the Pacific Ocean, a giant alpha predator emerges once more to do battle with a pair of spawning Mutos that feed off radioactivity.
Review:
The scaly monster with a roar like an express elephant returns in this nippophilic remake-cum-sequel. The environmental message of the original Toho films is reinforced, with Godzilla very much conceived as Nature's move to restore balance after Man's hubristic messing with matter. It is all cleverly done in the manner of an old monster movie, with early sightings only partially made, lots of gloom, and a tendency to cut away to a remote monitor or parallel action the minute some monster on monster fighting occurs. It does, however, more than deliver on that front, with a decidedly trashed downtown San Fran, as well as on the human level, focusing at it does on one key family unit. Alexandre Desplat provides yet another splendid score, but the film's standout moment is the freefall of the Navy Seals, played in silence to Ligeti's 2001 monolith music.
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Olsen
Synopsis:
Sixty years after its first appearance in the Pacific Ocean, a giant alpha predator emerges once more to do battle with a pair of spawning Mutos that feed off radioactivity.
Review:
The scaly monster with a roar like an express elephant returns in this nippophilic remake-cum-sequel. The environmental message of the original Toho films is reinforced, with Godzilla very much conceived as Nature's move to restore balance after Man's hubristic messing with matter. It is all cleverly done in the manner of an old monster movie, with early sightings only partially made, lots of gloom, and a tendency to cut away to a remote monitor or parallel action the minute some monster on monster fighting occurs. It does, however, more than deliver on that front, with a decidedly trashed downtown San Fran, as well as on the human level, focusing at it does on one key family unit. Alexandre Desplat provides yet another splendid score, but the film's standout moment is the freefall of the Navy Seals, played in silence to Ligeti's 2001 monolith music.