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This is the second Godzilla film in the MonsterVerse series, a story about the crypto-zoological agency Monarch finding themselves facing titan monsters Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah, and their ultimate solution is letting Godzilla battle them all to save mankind.The film is a little reminiscing to Toho Studio's classic 1964 movie, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, but this time featuring the monsters in the 21st century, with some neat special effects. You get to see each of the monsters' unyielding powers and characteristics, and them battling each other is nothing short of edge-of-your-seat monster excitement. However, the CGI on the creatures were too dark at times, making the monster battles hard to see. It is also difficult to see the creatures' faces and reactions - just a whole lot of head-spinning movements and swift actions.The human drama was average at best, and the good guys vs. bad guys subplot was a major distraction from the film, I thought. Much of the evil doers' actions were overkill, and our protagonists were too preachy, save for Ziyi Zhang's duo doctor roles, which is a great nod to Mothra's tiny twin priestesses in the classic films. I also liked that the filmmakers incorporated Mothra's Song in this movie.But, as with much of today's films, there is forced comedy to lighten up the mood, courtesy of Bradley Whitford's St. Stanton character. His humor was extremely annoying and distracting, very out-of-place for the movie.With all the hard-to-see monster action to the distracting human drama, there is too much in the film to digest and makes it hard to appreciate the main point, which are clearly the monsters. It leaves little room to sympathize with the human characters and leaves you craving for more of the monsters.Grade D+
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Gareth Edwards' franchise-starting "Godzilla" was a huge international hit, but divided viewers because of its flat, action figure-like characterizations, its meticulous, almost "Jaws"-like unveiling of Godzilla and the two Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Objects (MUTOs) that he ended up fighting, and its relative dearth of actual Godzilla footage (about seven minutes). The movie also placed the big fella within the larger ecosystem of wolves and snakes and birds and such. It contained more nature footage than you expected to see in a city-stomping kaiju epic, to the point where you half-expected Terrence Malick shots of honey-tinted fields and perhaps a narration by Godzilla ("Fire ... water ... why do you wrestle inside me?"). There were fears (among those who loved the original) and hopes (among people who hated it) that future movies would offer less philosophizing and atmospheric indulgences and more footage of giant monsters beating the tar out of each other, and the Vietnam-era period piece "Kong: Skull Island" delivered plenty, pitting the now super-sized ape against a series of Lovecraftian giants that seemed to be half-insect, half-demon, and making sure that the story didn't go five minutes without a burst of violent spectacle.
For all its crash-and-bash action, this is a real science fiction movie that goes to the trouble of not merely creating a world, but thinking about the implications of its images and predicaments. It cares what the people in it must feel and think about their situation, and how it might weigh on them even when they aren't talking about it. It's also suffused with a spiritual/theological awareness, and takes it as seriously as recent DC films took their comparisons of caped wonders to figures from the Old Testament and ancient mythology. A friend who saw this movie with another friend told me that afterward, they debated which of the monsters most resembled Jesus, and realized they could make an equally convincing case for several of them.
The constant need to summarize and annotate every significant moment grows wearisome (it's like being stuck watching a game with sportscasters who don't know when to shut up), but at the level of image, sound and music, "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" is a frequently brilliant film that earnestly grapples with the material it presents, and a religious picture about faith and spirituality, sin and redemption, where monsters die for our mistakes so that humankind won't have to. It deploys state-of-the-art moviemaking tools to try to return audiences to a stage of childlike terror and delight. Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This movie is magic.
Nobody walks into a Godzilla movie expecting cinematic genius, the sort of high-quality, artsy-fartsy caliber only shown in small arthouse theaters. Starting with Ishiro Honda's 1954 classic, the massive franchise numbering thirty-five movies in total has always been an unabashed spectacle of fantastical curiosities, an imaginative parade of outlandish creatures and a visual extravaganza of the complete, utter destruction of cities. Granted, there is a well-known and much-discussed allegorical element to Honda's film. But audiences keep returning to these movies knowingly expecting to be wowed by the sight of colossal monsters duking it out, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters delivers precisely that to satisfying effect. All the while, it surprisingly feels more like a traditional Godzilla entry than Gareth Edwards's 2014 take on the franchise. To be fair, the American reboot is an enjoyable disaster popcorn flick, but this direct follow-up better captures the spirit of Toho's original series.
The king of the monsters reigns supreme on Ultra HD with an exceptional, often-mesmerizing HEVC H.265 encode, struck from a 2K digital intermediate, which was itself sourced from a combination of Arri Alexa cameras capable of 3.4K and 6.5K resolutions.
The 4K video continues its rampage with notably improved contrast and balance, brightening up the action somewhat but also looking noticeably darker overall than the Blu-ray. Although not immediately apparent given Sher's creative photography, the boost in contrast delivers crisper, cleaner whites, giving the center of lights, monstrous explosions and Mothra's glow a more intense luminosity. The same goes for the specular highlights where the difference is a bit more nuanced but the upgrade nonetheless appreciable. The brightest, hottest spots, such as computer monitors, the edge of clouds, picturesque sunsets, Rodan's ember-riddled body and the monsters' radioactive glow, are tighter with a narrower brilliance that allows for better detailing. The most noteworthy moment demonstrating this is Godzilla rising from his lair and shooting an atomic ray into the sky where we can plainly make out the individual dorsal plates.
At the same time, black levels are richer and inkier with incredible gradational differences between the various shades, allowing for excellent visibility within the darkest, velvety shadows. Granted, the filmmakers' aesthetic look can make a few moments seem rather murky and dreary, but it's nothing too egregious as the action remains spectacular and bathed in silky, raven blacks, providing the 2.40:1 image with a beautiful, larger-than-life cinematic appeal. The same can be said of the overall definition and clarity where again, the CG action is continuously layered in a smoky, hazy and dark grey look, making for several blurry-looking shots. Nevertheless, the upscaled transfer still enjoys a welcomed uptick, showing every bead of sweat and water rolling down the casts' faces along with every scale, muscle tissue and battle scar of the monsters. Fine lines and stitching are sharper and a tad more distinct while facial complexions are peachier with a natural rosiness, revealing individual wrinkles, pores and the tiniest blemish with lifelike texturing. (Dolby Vision Video Rating: 90/100)
Godzilla has been featured alongside many supporting characters. It has faced human opponents such as the JSDF, or other monsters, including King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla and Gigan. Godzilla sometimes has allies, such as Rodan, Mothra and Anguirus, and offspring, such as Minilla and Godzilla Junior. Godzilla has also fought characters from other franchises in crossover media, such as King Kong, as well as various Marvel Comics characters, including S.H.I.E.L.D.,[36] the Fantastic Four[37] and the Avengers.[38]