GODZILLA MINUS ONE - Movie Review

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So far so good I will rate this movie a 6/10 and that is because I was expecting more just as the title was screaming but I guess reverse is as likely? Read review below as I pointed out my opinion on his movie

Obviously, this is a remake of the first appearance of Godzilla on the 70th anniversary of the Original.

The movie starts in Japan at the end of WWII. A Kamakazi pilot catches a whiff of sanity, pretends that there is a fault in his plane and detours to a remote island where there is a hidden repair base. Godzilla shows up and Chaos Ensues.

This Godzilla movie is told from the perspective of that Kamakazi pilot, who blames himself for being a coward and not dying along side everyone else. He returns home to a destroyed town where he picks up a female survivor and a random baby. They slowly make some sort of a life together, but he consistently puts up obstacles to any relationships or happiness because his sees himself as a deserter and traitor who shouldn't be alive. Time passes, Godzilla returns to wreck havoc and our hero joins the team of citizens set to rid themselves of this unkillable creature.

Fun: There is actually very little of Godzilla in this movie as most of it is spent on the pilot whining about how undeserving he is of life. There is the traditional ridiculous methods of trying to kill Godzilla that we have all come to love from the franchise and this movie does not disappoint. Apparently, their method of choice for killing a creature that lives in the deep ocean is to give it the bends by sinking it to the bottom of a trench and then rapidly sending him back to the surface. This is, of course, AFTER setting off a Naval Mine in its mouth failed.

The movie is subtitled, but that doesn't seem to prevent the actors from pretty much screaming every line hysterically. In over 2 hours of dialog, there may have been 3 sentences spoken in a normal conversational volume.

I suspect that the reason that the critics actually love this movie is that it isn't about Godzilla at all, but more about the horrors of war and what it did to families. It's more of a war drama interjected with the occasional Big Dumb Monster. There wasn't even the not-so-subtle undertones of "Nukes are bad" or "Don't mess with Mother Nature" in this movie.

Preachy: If there is one message to be gained from watching this movie, it's this: War sucks and Governments do not give a flying f**k about their people. So... all in all, words to live by.

Just to be clear this is entirely my opinion and what you see fit might be entirely different from my review but as for someone like me who have watched a lot of movies with a more expectation attached on the upcoming ones, I think this is pretty much my sincere opinion and nothing more nothing less.