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As a long time fan of these monsters and this franchise, there were so many cool moments I couldn’t even take them all in, the pacing was so well done that by the time I could take in one cool moment, it seemed like three more had happened.
I didn’t check out every review, but some of the negative ones, I was scratching my head wondering what they even watched, I was keeping my mind open for some things and they never happened, and that was a good thing.
The humans were significantly better overall than 2014, and I’d say on par with Skull Island, but remember, unlike Alien or other creature films where the monster is a plot device moving the humans forward, here humans are the device moving the monsters forward. As I suspected, most of the silly dialogue you worry about from ads comes and goes and isn’t representative of overall dialogue and soldiers play far less a front and center role than led to believe, Monarch takes the center stage for characters and most of the humor works good for levity.
The human story is straight forward and enjoyable enough to not make me feel rushed to get to monsters and I found the balance of monster and human scenes well distributed. There are some areas where additional drama could have been worked in, but not doing so doesn’t ruin things, just a few moments where you can definitely feel like “if they added this” it would have been that much more amazing.
Monsters were amazing, I walked away wanting a solo Rodan movie, he could have been used more but when he was it was amazing, Mothra was as probably the best representation as a character that I’ve ever seen, where Toho Mothra could never do too much in fights, this one can hold her own and is very cunning while also still being that elegant peacekeeper she’s always been. Ghidorah was amazing to see fully in action and not limited by automation. Godzilla was given a number of great moments to show more personality to him the likes of Kong, and some stunning shots.
The fights feel a bit more like a Marvel movie than a monster movie, but to me it just makes them different, not bad or worse, definitely a different cinematography style from 2014.
Definitely one to see multiple times to take it all in and I can’t wait for Saturday for round 2. Definitely a movie that will hold up through repeat viewings for me, and pushes 2014 out of my top 5, but as much as I enjoyed it, it’s not enough to steal the #1 slot from Gojira.
