Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence)

You shouldn't watch Shin Godzilla for Godzilla alone. He's not really the star of the film—Yaguchi and the rest of his human adversaries are. They credibly resist the end of the world with ingenuity and teamwork, making Shin Godzilla just as winningly optimistic as it is pleasurably eccentric.

So, yes, Shin Godzilla is dialogue-heavy, and sometimes it fails to make much sense. And after that knockout battle scene in the middle of the film, the end conflict is a little anticlimactic, especially for Western audiences used to a lone hero sacrificing themselves to save the day instead of the successful execution of a coordinated team effort.

The Original Gangsta Lizard gets a largely satisfying reboot in Shin Godzilla, a surprisingly clever monster mash best described as the “Batman Begins” of Zilla Thrillers.

If this fun but frequently exasperating new chapter in Godzilla’s never-ending story feels like a major anomaly, its eccentricities are what best allow it to channel the forward-thinking urgency of Honda’s original.

The film's first act makes you think the Japanese forces trying to stop Godzilla will eventually thin out and reveal someone the movie will focus on. But that doesn't happen, and the result is a film without an onscreen focal point.

It’s never stuffy – J-Rock guitar solos wail over science research montages – just a bit overlong and too involved in the judicial process.

Despite the movie's darker tone, there's still room for humor when you have rooms full of diplomats and scientists discussing how to contend with a "giant unidentified creature."

"Shin Godzilla" (2016) é uma obra-prima do cinema kaiju, trazendo uma revitalização moderna do icônico Rei dos Monstros, Godzilla, para o público contemporâneo. Com direção magistral de Hideaki Anno e Shinji Higuchi, o filme oferece uma visão arrebatadora da ameaça que o gigantesco monstro representa para o Japão e o mundo. A trama instigante se inicia com uma série de eventos misteriosos na Baía de Tóquio, criando um suspense magistral que mantém o público à beira dos assentos. A emergência do monstro desencadeia caos e destruição, apresentando um realismo tenso nas tentativas fracassadas de detê-lo. O filme critica e satiriza a burocracia e ineficácia governamental, mostrando como essas falhas podem agravar crises. A lentidão da resposta e a interferência burocrática são retratadas de forma marcante, refletindo a realidade de situações de crise no mundo real. A direção conjunta de Anno e Higuchi cria uma atmosfera claustrofóbica, mergulhando o público no caos. As cenas de pânico e caos são intensificadas pela fotografia, aumentando a sensação de vulnerabilidade e medo das pessoas em meio à destruição. A representação das cenas militares demonstra pesquisa minuciosa, com uma abordagem precisa dos equipamentos e ações, conferindo autenticidade e realismo técnico às cenas de combate. Os personagens são bem desenvolvidos, representando diferentes facetas da sociedade japonesa. O núcleo dos "sem-burocracia" simboliza a importância de inovação e trabalho em equipe diante de desafios. A união entre militares e políticos é ressaltada, destacando a relevância da cooperação em tempos de crise. A representação de Godzilla é magnífica, apresentando uma estética grotesca e assustadora que o torna uma força da natureza imparável. O filme o retrata como uma vítima das ações humanas, adicionando complexidade emocional ao personagem. A trilha sonora de Shiro Sagisu é fundamental para a experiência cinematográfica, transmitindo emoções e complementando a narrativa. A combinação de composições originais com melodias clássicas de Akira **** eleva a experiência a novas alturas. "Shin Godzilla" vai além do gênero de monstros, sendo uma celebração da esperança e união da humanidade em momentos adversos. O filme reflete sobre a resiliência humana em crises e critica as falhas burocráticas e políticas. Com uma narrativa envolvente, personagens cativantes e representação memorável do Rei dos Monstros, é uma verdadeira obra-prima do cinema de kaiju, recomendada para fãs de Godzilla e apreciadores de filmes impactantes e emocionais.

The scenes with Godzilla are outstanding... some of the best ever. I rank it as the 4th best Godzilla movie.

It does a really good job showing the aftermath and effect of an attack by a giant mutated lizard.

Toho does their thing in the famed studio's first-ever complete Godzilla reboot. Still, it feels like a thematic kin to preceding films, with a heavy emphasis on human interest stories and military maneuvers, plus a heavy-handed topical metaphor that clumsily attempts to peer beneath the superficial story. This time, rather than alluding to the physical destruction and psychological damage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the mile-high monster provides an example of slow government response and political mismanagement during more recent times of crisis. The **** disaster, for instance. It's an inspired film, with some good ideas (Godzilla's slow metamorphosis from wriggling, serpent-like creature with googly eyes to hardened, lumbering, radiating beast on two legs is particularly cool) but it falls well short of potential. We spend roughly three-quarters of the film in a dull, fluorescent-lit government office, which is just as drab and boring as it seems, and the accompanying acting is downright dreadful. Not a lick of charisma or personality to anyone. There's also far too much text on the screen at any given time, with every stiff government suit or neighboring conference room named with precise, exhaustive detail. Even if I weren't trying to get through the rapid-fire subtitles, that would've been too much. Most of the visual design work is good enough, although Godzilla never quite feels like he occupies the same plane as his human counterparts and that somewhat **** the illusion. For the most part, though, he's just window dressing. We dart over to see where he's at for a moment, then get straight back to tedious strategic planning sessions. There was potential here, loads of it, but focus is constantly placed in the wrong spot and the result is about fifteen minutes of really entertaining footage amidst two hours of empty dialogue and drab meeting rooms.

This was bad. They really tried but failed. 1) No enemy monster to fight. Only (in this case) a useless Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) being ordered by an inept PM who refused to make a decision unless you put a gun to his head. They tried but it was too little too late. The politics in this film were WAY overblown. We get it. Your politicians are old and feeble. The mutation special effects were a joke. It's like the movie makers spent every penny on special effects for this atomic breath and other attacks and decided that was good enough. Well..maybe for a 6 yr old it is. There were a couple laughs in there and a couple cool effects but overall it flopped. It was 50% bureaucracy, 25% action and 25% "why did they do that? or Why didn't they do anything?" Stay away from this one. Google "shin Godzilla ending ???" for another problem with the film.