Shin Godzilla (2016)

Some of these reviews are just crazy! This movie is slow and weird, more like a weird giant monster movie without the "Godzilla" feel to it at all.The CGI was impressive in some parts, but the animation was horrible! Even when they got it right, they got it wrong. When I first saw the monster I was thinking "please, oh please don't let this be Godzilla!" It was like some gross dead fish thing crawling up out of the ocean operated like a cheap Chinese dragon on New Years -- literally. Godzilla's eyes were gross, fishy, dead, cheap, toy-like, and his body severely malformed. Through the movie, Godzilla transforms nonsensically from this mindless, dead fish thing into a manga comic god of some kind. It can shoot laser like beams from cracks in it body with supreme precision without looking or trying. I could go on and on with how gross it was, matched by silly, goofy animation.I think that the movie was trying to say that Godzilla was not a typical giant monster, but rather a demon from hell composed of deformed corpses of demons, apparently sent from hell to bring more hell upon the earth, not as punishment or as a life lesson, but as the opposite. It was like it was in complete agreement with mankind's self-destruction and was here to aid humanity in this process.They stop the creature basically with glue which they say is blood coagulant, but obviously it is not. It is some kind of weird glue that freezes. They have to pump more of it into Godzilla than the total volume of the monster. So embarrassing to watch!Obviously the real monster of the show was the Japanese government which was portrayed as frozen in extremely anemic bureaucracy. These guys would take years of mindless rules and procedures to write the rules and procedures of how to screw in a lightbulb, minus the instructions and forgetting entirely that the entire point is that the lightbulb actually needs to be actually replaced.The acting was okay in some parts, it really did feel like the ministers and the people in charge were a bunch of boring, old hasbeens in a retirement home. By far the best actor/actress was Mikako Ichikawa who played a reoccurring bit-part of Hiromi Ogashira, Deputy Director of Nature Conservation Bureau. Some of the acting would have been better if they were either more comedic, or were not in the movie. Note to actors: Sorry guys, comedy takes a lot of work, and you appeared to be busy with other things that day you were on camera.It was a true relief when most of them apparently where killed by the monster and replaced with some old guy who was just there and not much else. This is by no means satire, more like, "hey we are going to ruin this movie for you until you just can't stand it."The UN is portrayed as some kind of mysterious god which must be obeyed or risk blasphemy. The USA is portrayed as itching to drop atomic bombs on the monster for the fun of it. Apparently the US is not aware of Tokyo at all.Some weird, inept "reporter" like woman comes out of nowhere and makes a point that she is Japanese at heart even though she is going to be the US president. Pointless, absurd, weird, but at least there is a pretty face on the camera for some reason. She is presented in such a worthless, weird way. I could not help thinking that someone said "hey, you want to be in the new Godzilla movie?" and she says "yeah, sure, what do I have to do?" and he replies, "just show up whenever you want to and read the lines if you feel like it, no acting or anything required." So insulting! So embarrassing!This movie is just no fun. Everything you like about Godzilla is completely missing -- except the music which shows up at the end, after the movie is over. The movie ends in the middle, the last conversation said nothing and should have been edited out. What a complete drag!I am certain that the monster's design was based upon a combination of something the cat coughed up and some nuclear disaster memorial.

This film deserves a viewing if you truly appreciate the Godzilla franchise.

Whenever Godzilla was on the screen me and my brother were just screaming, "holy crap!" cause all of those scenes are just epic! It also had a bit of humor which was a plus. The musics great, and the effects are pretty good espiecally towards the end. And if you're worried that them speaking Japanese the whole time will be a problem, well it isn't really. I love reading subtitles on my movies and shows that I watch anyways. I also love that Godzilla was there almost immediately cause I hate it when movies take like 30 minutes before the freaking monster shows up. I always just keep on thinking during movies like that, "when's the monster gonna show up!" but here I didn't really have to. It's probably one of the best Godzilla movies ever!

6.7 ratings for this abomination. This is the movie that makes me question on the quality of a site such as IMDb. I saw movies before that were overrated in my humble opinion but then I thought that not everyone has the same taste. But for this one it's utterly ridiculous. Maybe if this movie came out in 1950 I could understand people liking it then. But we are in 2018 now, a period were a sixteen year old child could make better cgi's than the ones in this movie. It's by far the worst Godzilla movie I ever saw. The special effects are done by incompetent people. The monster itself, well I have no words to describe how bad that was. It actually made me laugh on how bad it was. Certainly when you see the eye of the monster. That must be one of the worst costume moments in the history of filming. But enough said about the amateurism of the costume designers and the special effects crew. The story itself is incredibly boring. You wonder who came up with this script and how the hell he managed to convince people to give him a budget. I don't know if it is because it's Japanese or so, with their strict rules acting as servants all the time, and with their talking like they are always extremely mad at something, but the acting was painful to watch. You get a close-up from an actor saying his phrase like he's reading it from a paper, and then you get the next close-up from the next actor saying another absurdity in an of course mad way. And it goes on and on until you had every single person in that room saying his bit in the most amateur way. The whole movie is about debating what to do and who is in charge and who is to blame. And this while the fakeist monster ever made continues to crawl through the city. And you would expect that this movie would be over after one hour, but no they had it to make it a two hour movie. So if you're a bit tired I can assure you that you won't make it till the end. I didn't, I fell asleep half an hour before the end and I could not care less.