Perfect cast and a good story

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This was the first theatrically released Japanese Godzilla film in the United States in 15 years. The wait seemed to be worth it! "Godzilla 1985" suffered from not bringing anything new to the character and being too bland. This movie on the other hand is a huge improvement with a brand new idea coming about. We get to see Godzilla destroy a city "and" fight a monster. Well, it originally doesn't look like he's even going to fight another monster. It starts off with an alien spaceship appearing that he fights which brings out a giant monster. That was very nice and unpredictable.Unfortunately, the CGI is pretty lame at times. It makes you realize how better the practical effects in the Godzilla franchise are. We even get some interesting insight into the mythology of Godzilla. It actually has the characters question why it is that Godzilla attacks and destroys cities while at the same time helping the humans. They conclude Godzilla just sees himself in the people as they are responsible for his awakening. It really does set up the personality of Godzilla. Most of the good stuff as usual doesn't come near the end, but it's worth the wait. I could believe this was the 2000th Godzilla movie. ***

One of the facets I enjoy about the Godzilla franchise is the campy practical effects. Miniatures abound; eventually exploding or crumbling in glorious fashion. In this film, what I recall was meant to be an apology for the American travesty of a film starring Matthew Broderick, JPEGs and green screens clash with terrible CG in one of the ugliest Godzilla productions I've ever seen. Godzilla faces off against a weird UFO very reminiscent of the T-1000 and the battle for Tokyo is pretty unenjoyable purely because of how dumb it looks, even for Godzilla. That doesn't make this a campy delight nonetheless. If only for the shock and schlock value of the special effects should you come to this film. The story is a mess, the villain is unmemorable, and you'll leave it thinking "eh, it was a Godzilla movie".

Quite enjoyable Godzilla film has out reptilian hero fighting a giant space monster. This was the first film in the Millennium series reboot of the Godzilla franchise, which ignored the continuity of all the prior films with the exception of the original first film. Godzilla movies can become a blur of men in rubber suits pounding on one another, but this one features better special effect than most and also features quite a few kaiju battles (including some very well filmed nighttime battle sequences), which makes this entry into the long running series is well worth watching for Godzilla fans.

In all honesty, I usually enjoy the campy, b-movie charm of the Godzilla movies. The great miniature work and the monster fights usually make up for nonsensical plots or cliché human characters. But nothing makes up for a boring Godzilla movie in my book. If you're making a movie about giant, fighting monsters the biggest sin you could commit is be boring. The perfectly simplistic plot still gets dragged out for most of the run time, where we're only introduced to a new kaiju in the last 30 minutes. The rest of the time we can watch Godzilla battle it out with a flying saucer. Riviting. You know your fight scenes lack any sense of emergency when all your villains basically die standing around being useless. The human characters are annoying. No one likable. The potentially charming father-daughter scientific duo never does anything besides being pretentious, self-important assholes. Honestly the movie could have been way better, have they focused on Godzilla and the monster fights. The effects (explosions, destruction of buildings, atomic breath) were great (save that flying saucer) along with the new suit. If they gave two shits about choreography or pacing the whole thing would have turned out fine. I understand that this movie was Godzilla's great return after 1995 and a lot of people may have major nostalgia for it, but in my personal experience with the franchise, there are way better flicks out there.