"We're gonna need a bigger boat..."
I've
been on the go since waking this morning for dialysis, but I had to pop
in briefly state that I thoroughly enjoyed GODZILLA MINUS ONE. I'm too
wiped-out to write about it at length, but let it suffice to say that
it's definitely one of the Top 3 that the franchise has to offer.
It's
the best of Godzilla films aimed at grownups, right alongside the
somber 1954 original, as it's basically a drama about the last days of
WWII and their aftermath for the Japanese, focusing on a
deserter kamikaze pilot who encounters the pre-irradiated Godzilla and
subsequently plunges into an ongoing state of PTSD and survivor's guilt.
Returning to his bombed-out home, an orphaned girl with an orphaned
infant (not her child) fallin with the pilot and the three form a
makeshift family that does its best to survive. We follow them for two
years and become quite invested in them, but then Godzilla, now mutated
and rendered titanic by atomic radiation, returns...
It's
all as serious as a heart attack and bears no trace of the signature
goofiness of many of the series' entries. It's genuinely scary in parts,
quite suspenseful, visually spectacular,and it featrures a Godzilla
that's as mean and nasty as we have ever seen him. Here he's a complete
and utter bastard, an implacable living holocaust that's just plain
unstoppable. While entertaining as hell, there's no "fun" about any of
the proceedings, as Godzilla's path of destruction is treated as the
outright horror that it would be, were it to actually happen. The
sequence where Godzilla razes Ginza is worth the price of admission, and
it will have you on the edge of your seat.
If it's playing anywhere near you, do not miss this one on the big screen. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.
Poster for the Japanese theatrical release.
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