This Godzilla movie is utterly devoid of the human suffering that should match the scenic destruction. It feels so clean despite the chaos. The havoc just moves from city to city and we are not given time to contemplate what has happened. The aftermath scenes feel like an afterthought. We do not even see people traumatized from seeing not one but three monsters. In that universe it seems like people happen upon monsters occasionally. “Oh hey did you see the news?” “Oh yeah, monsters are in town. Slow news day.” The film also suffers from a lack of a clear protagonist and consequentially, a lack of focus. At first I thought the main star was Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame but they killed him in the goddamn first act. The only good actor in that film they killed the earliest. What. Hahaha. So we are left with Brady’s son, who didn’t evoke intrigue or mystery at all. He was just a blank face in the middle of all that was happening. I feel like the director set out to do one thing and that was to show Godzilla in a “grittier” fashion. “Gritty” reboots of franchises are popular now. In that level, the movie succeeded. As a piece of storytelling of epic proportions, it didn’t.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:28:45 +0000
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