This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Beautiful movie, well-made and performed, but utterly, utterly bleak. The reviews I read said this would be a difficult watch, but I guess I imagined it would be more emotional than hopeless and numb.
There is a beautiful sequence in a coffee shop where the protagonist eavesdrops on conversations and notices passersby. In this scene and in many interactions he has with others in the film, we see a window for empathy. Perhaps it’s all relative.. each person carries their…
Less yapping, more Godzilla destruction!
I didn’t like this as much as I thought it would, and really it came down to it being about 80% conversation and 20% kick-ass special effects. The effects are indeed spectacular - the monster is terrifying and awesome, he progressively gets cooler as he evolves, and the SCALE is incredible - arguably it’s what this movie is most successful at. However, the priorities of this film lost me a bit. It explores how the…
Adding this to the list of 80s horror movies that had *no* business being so horny
