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Without compelling characters or heart, Godzilla stomps on everything that made the original (or any monster movie worth its salt) a classic.
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Despite some clever and exciting sequences, though, this $120 million epic of reconstituted Atomic Age trash... lumbers more than it thrills. Sep 7, 2011 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Despite some clever and exciting sequences, though, this $120 million epic of reconstituted Atomic Age trash... lumbers more than it thrills.
Owen Gleiberman
Despite all the flash and filigree, this monster movie is curiously - and conspicuously - lacking in heart. Nov 27, 2008
Despite all the flash and filigree, this monster movie is curiously - and conspicuously - lacking in heart.
Joe Leydon
After a promising start, the movie falls apart almost as soon as Godzilla arrives in Manhattan. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
After a promising start, the movie falls apart almost as soon as Godzilla arrives in Manhattan.
Tom Charity
"Godzilla"... is an overblown action monstrosity with no surprises, no exhilaration and no thrills. Jun 18, 2002 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
"Godzilla"... is an overblown action monstrosity with no surprises, no exhilaration and no thrills.
Mick LaSalle
Forget the plot, though: All these guys know how to do is high-tech bang-bang, and at times they do it pretty well. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Forget the plot, though: All these guys know how to do is high-tech bang-bang, and at times they do it pretty well.
Gary Kamiya
You have to absorb such a film, not consider it. But my brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
You have to absorb such a film, not consider it. But my brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome.
Roger Ebert
The sole purpose of this product was to make more money than anything else before it, generate a reflexive response immune to critical and public opinion, then let it creep back to the mediocre-sea. Apr 11, 2018 | Full Review…
The sole purpose of this product was to make more money than anything else before it, generate a reflexive response immune to critical and public opinion, then let it creep back to the mediocre-sea.
Gregory Solman
Yhe movie sorely misses the quirky charm of "Independence Day's" Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum and the story never captures the heart. Dec 11, 2014 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Yhe movie sorely misses the quirky charm of "Independence Day's" Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum and the story never captures the heart.
Nell Minow
Save your seven bucks and visit the Big Apple's other green giant, Lady Liberty. Dec 5, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Save your seven bucks and visit the Big Apple's other green giant, Lady Liberty.
John Hoyle
The picture's fatal flaw is its inability to give us any consistent sense of Godzilla's size." May 6, 2014 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
The picture's fatal flaw is its inability to give us any consistent sense of Godzilla's size."
Josh Larsen
It's just another humdrum monster movie with Godzilla stapled on the marketing for the name recognition. Mar 14, 2013 | Full Review…
It's just another humdrum monster movie with Godzilla stapled on the marketing for the name recognition.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Broderick is like the proverbial deer in headlights . . . . Feb 11, 2012 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Broderick is like the proverbial deer in headlights . . . .
James Plath
Shlock artiste Emmerich regurgitates his "blockbuster" formula and directs a bigger, leaner, CGI generated, fire breathing lizard from traditional home stomping ground Japan to New York City where we discover ... but that would be telling. Jean Reno is the most fun as the Frenchman in the Big Apple. This film is one of my guilty pleasures.
Super Reviewer
Humanity is thrown out the window, real laughs are impossible to find and this film is too bad to have fun laughing at it's sheer dumbness. I felt insulted by this film, because Emmerich has a little more talent than this and this film focusses on too much dumb humour when it's supposed to be thrilling. The cast in this film is fine, but the way they react to everything is hilariously bad, the direction is sloppy, the camerawork is unfocussed, and the script is honestly one of the worst I've seen in a long time. This remake of "Godzilla" did not need to happen and it should never have happened. Sure the technicalities of the film show in certain moments, and for it's time I'm sure it pleased a lot of people, but to me, it's complete Hollywood trash at it's finest. It doesn't even work as a guilty pleasure. I'm fine with other people liking this film, but it's one of the worst I've ever seen!
In one scene, Matthew Broderick buys pregnancy tests from the local store and uses them to find out Godzilla is...pregnant. He deduces it's because Godzilla is asexual, to which his girlfriend replies, "where's the fun in that." This is an example of how remarkably lame and poorly constructed this film is. Dismissing the fact the monster keeps changing size as well as stupid Mayor Ebert and his sidekick Gene (way to bash the critics Roland Emmerich), Godzilla is a lame studio attempt to cash in on the Jurassic Park craze by using an established brand. But like Xander Harris said, Matthew Broderick killed a big, dumb lizard that was NOT Godzilla.
Godzilla is an average horror, action movie and although i found it very entertaining just as a light hearted not to serious movie, it is just an average movie and nothing special about it. It is action packed and enjoyable movie to watch on a rainiy day but thats about it!
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