After sandblasting away years of camp and bad scripts from the Gamera franchise to form a couple of tight-scripted, vastly entertaining flicks, Shusuke Kaneko gives the same treatment to the granddaddy of kaiju eiga characters: Godzilla. The film opens with Godzilla waking up from his underwater hideaway. Unseen since his 1954 attack on Tokyo, the monster is spotted by a Japanese submarine. Though government officials seem reluctant to confront the problem, Navy Admiral Tachibana (Ryudo Uzaki),
Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
one of the best godzilla movies made...good original script, lots of monster mayhem. better effects than most of the films giving it a rather realistic feel. One of the best things about this film is how they made godzilla come across as more evil, you really get the feeling that godzilla is unstoppable and a true
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