Carries over the previous films' flaws - dreadful dialogue, paper-thin characters - while becoming increasingly cartoonish and repetitive. Gidorah's design is the first of the titans to feel more like an anime monster than a real giant creature, there's an ex-military Brit terrorist running around, and the titans stop to pose in front of extreme weather conditions every few minutes like they're getting their portraits spray-painted onto the side of a van. Granted it looks gnarly, but it's also a little cheap. Where Godzilla 1 and even occasionally Skull Island managed to convey a sense of grace and awe, here the titans feel more like pokemon and the overall tone is that of a Resident Evil movie.
The old Godzilla movies became progressively cheesier, of course, but they were also fun. Here, the endless cycle of 'monsters fight with bright lights going off', 'goody monster is taken down', 'human is nearly killed by baddy monster but then saved at the last second by recovered goody monster' is just tiring.
Rating: Bad.
No comments:
Post a Comment