Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
(Gojira: Fainaru uôzu)
Country: JAP/AUS/US/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 125m
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Cast: Don Frye, Kane Kosugi, Kazuki Kitamura, Maki Mizuno
Synopsis:
An alien attack force of Xilians unleashes an array of monsters against Earth, and a special defence force made up of human soldiers bolstered with extraterrestrial DNA is sent against them. When they prove unequal to the match, they awaken Godzilla from his polar slumbers and let him loose on the foe.
Review:
Interminably noisy, barely comprehensible mishmash of styles, from the old Godzilla pictures to Star Wars and The Matrix. The colour is dark and garish, the script banal in the extreme, and there is even some anthropomorphic sentiment in the shape of a baby Godzilla, out to seek its parent. The most one can say is that a considerable amount of money has been spent on scenes of wholesale destruction, and the miniature manufacturers kept busy. Sample dialogue, of one of the monsters: 'Damn' that armadillo!'
(Gojira: Fainaru uôzu)
Country: JAP/AUS/US/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 125m
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Cast: Don Frye, Kane Kosugi, Kazuki Kitamura, Maki Mizuno
Synopsis:
An alien attack force of Xilians unleashes an array of monsters against Earth, and a special defence force made up of human soldiers bolstered with extraterrestrial DNA is sent against them. When they prove unequal to the match, they awaken Godzilla from his polar slumbers and let him loose on the foe.
Review:
Interminably noisy, barely comprehensible mishmash of styles, from the old Godzilla pictures to Star Wars and The Matrix. The colour is dark and garish, the script banal in the extreme, and there is even some anthropomorphic sentiment in the shape of a baby Godzilla, out to seek its parent. The most one can say is that a considerable amount of money has been spent on scenes of wholesale destruction, and the miniature manufacturers kept busy. Sample dialogue, of one of the monsters: 'Damn' that armadillo!'
(Gojira: Fainaru uôzu)
Country: JAP/AUS/US/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 125m
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Cast: Don Frye, Kane Kosugi, Kazuki Kitamura, Maki Mizuno
Synopsis:
An alien attack force of Xilians unleashes an array of monsters against Earth, and a special defence force made up of human soldiers bolstered with extraterrestrial DNA is sent against them. When they prove unequal to the match, they awaken Godzilla from his polar slumbers and let him loose on the foe.
Review:
Interminably noisy, barely comprehensible mishmash of styles, from the old Godzilla pictures to Star Wars and The Matrix. The colour is dark and garish, the script banal in the extreme, and there is even some anthropomorphic sentiment in the shape of a baby Godzilla, out to seek its parent. The most one can say is that a considerable amount of money has been spent on scenes of wholesale destruction, and the miniature manufacturers kept busy. Sample dialogue, of one of the monsters: 'Damn' that armadillo!'