Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The best Godzilla movie is Godzilla (1998). Maybe you don't agree that o.k. But if you mad about that you deed to grow up pee pee heads. This is the 14th Godzilla movie. The 15th Godzilla movie Terror of M.e.c.h.a. Godzilla is better. The 16th Godzilla movie Return of Godzilla is better. The 17th Godzilla movie Godzilla vs B..i.o.l.l.a.n.t.e is also better. But this is still and could movie. It's very scary. See it. The 11th Godzilla movie Godzilla vs the smog monster is better. The 8th Godzilla movie Son of Godzilla is also better. The 1st Godzilla movie Godzilla King of the monsters is also better. But still a very good movie. See it.

Apelike aliens build a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the true Godzilla may not be powerful enough to destroy the mechanical monster.Now, you know, there is going to be a certain level of cheese to this film as there is with any Godzilla film. You have men in suits rolling around. And here you have the added factor of the ape aliens (though a far more interesting alien race than the ones associated with King Ghidorah).And yet, this is solid directing and a decent plot, which is much needed after the terrible distraction of Godzilla's alleged son Minya in recent chapters. Some parts of this even come across like an espionage thriller in comparison.

This follows in the steps of many Japanese monster movies, involving construction workers (but it could be other people) who accidentally discover some magic stone (in this case: a statue in a cave) or other relic that invariably is linked to some monster or prophecy (in this case, both). Other clichés of monster movies return: the 007/Bond angle (monkey space invaders in disguise in a high-tech underground base ), the Mosura angle ( the sympathetic monster of the movie, king Caesar, must be summoned by a singing princess ).A cave with mysterious paintings is found; inside it lays a small statue, which is the key to a mysterious prophecy involving one monster setting out to destroy the world, and two good monsters to fight back.The statue is also coveted by a series of mysterious individuals, appearing in the end as interpol agents and space invaders.A new monster, King Caesar, appears in its native island of Okinawa and teams up with Godzilla to defeat the first mechagodzilla.A nice movie overall, with a few clichés angles that I am well aware used to be in the air at the time...and short 1h10m. Acting isn't bad for this kind of movie, but nothing worth mentioning...SFX are rather weak.

Godzilla rises from the watery depths ticked off at a mechanical prototype resembling itself, created by alien spacemen bent on conquering the earth. The aliens also wish to retrieve a statuette representing a monstrous guardian of a dying family, King Shisa, a creature sleeping within a mountain who can only be awakened by an ancestor's soulful tune. A Nobel Prize winning professor, his daughter, two brothers(..one uncovers the mountainous lair containing the aliens' hidden fortress where their control room is located for the mechanical Godzilla creation, the other's crew helped discover the King Shisa statuette), and an archaeologist attempt to stop the aliens and help Godzilla fight the Mecha-Godzilla which is equipped with a variety of hi-tech weaponry at it's disposal. Joining forces with Godzilla, an awakened King Shisa prime for combat, the two monsters will duke it out with the giant robot which has superior firepower, but is still a machine..the professor will get much needed assistance in a pair of Interpol agents with the goal of overthrowing the aliens and ending their plans of world domination.The plot is preposterous and corny...there's no denying that. If you just read what I wrote, then you should not be surprised entering a movie with a title of Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla that it isn't entertaining for some deep, penetrating message that has you evaluating life. This is a massive plot surrounding what the audience pay to see..rubber monsters fighting each other with lots of models being destroyed. Godzilla, for instance, battles a creature called Anguirus and actually pumps his fists at the monster(..putting up his dukes and challenging the creature as if preparing it for a barroom brawl)before pummeling it into submission..we later discover that it wasn't Godzilla at all but the Mecha-Godzilla. The aliens are basically Japanese actors in silver jumpsuits(..the leader even smokes a cigar, often smirking at his human adversaries when he isn't teasing them, propelling himself to victory before the combat had started)and when they are shot or killed, their faces change into gorilla masks! You can't help but break out in laughter..it's just too much. But, the whole movie is pure campy fun and I was in the right mood for this junk. The film really has a little too much plot for it's own good, using the kitchen sink formula to the maximum. I think fans of kaiju eiga will find this laboring because there are limited numbers of battles, mainly in the opening and the big showdown at the end with a lot of story in the center. And, only one minor(..well, for these movies anyway)attack on a city with an apartment complex and village homes toppled and crushed. Most of the film's major battle occurs in the countryside of Okinawa(..Tokyo got a break for a change)where our heroes look on as two monsters attempt to destroy their difficult enemy.Poor Anguirus(..resembling a four-legged dinosaur with it's back top heavy with spikes)just gets pulverized in it's battle with who was thought to be Godzilla..body slammed and hip-tossed like a minuscule pro wrestler, Anguirus crawls away helpless and bleeding from the mouth. Shisa, a hideous "lion-dog", should tickle your funny-bone..it's quite a creation, this monster. The Mecha-Godzilla looks like a giant tin robot replica of Godzilla, it's head can turn all the way around, it has a forcefield/shield as a temporary protection, has flying capabilities(..as Godzilla discovers all too well), can fire rockets, lasers, and rays at it's opponents. For a moment, Godzilla looked vanquished until it "hulked up", building a magnetic field, soon, with help by Shisa, gaining the upper hand. I could go through the cast, but they aren't as consequential towards your enjoyment of this film as the monsters themselves, although it's clear that everyone involved desired more than just what the audience expected..that has to admired, I think.