Godzilla fans generally tends to be divided on how Godzilla Final Wars was. Some people say it was great and fun whilst others may dislike it for it's mistakes but I'm more leaning to the positive side but man if this film was a mixed bag.
The biggest problem this film has is it's pacing. In the first hour the pacing was really slow and took a while for the thing to do start but in the ladder hour, it was a bit too fast paced but me personally the film actually benefited from this because taking your time fighting 14 monsters would take hours which would eventually get boring. Also to really showcase how powerful Godzilla is
The greatest strength Godzilla Final Wars has is the action. Although very short, the monster fight scenes are still entertaining and I specifically liked the final battle. Despite being a Godzilla film, it actually has more human fight scenes and from someone who likes martial arts, they were fantastic and great.
The overall tone of this film mimics the showa era by having fighting humans, aliens, monster martial art but one key difference is that this is a lot more serious-toned so the goofy wack of the Showa era I hated isn't present. One more thing to add is that this has a ton of western-hollywood influence being still tonally distinct enough to be unique
The human stuff were ok, definitely one of the weaker human plots of the series but the human action sequences were entertaining so I still found it entertaining. Some of the cast gave amazing performances whilst others like Gordon have incredibly dry ones. BTW why was he speaking English while everyone else was speaking Japanese?
One critical issue I was surprised about is how terrible some of the CGI has aged. Some scenes and shots that are made up of CGI hasn't aged the best but this film has the ambitions of a Hollywood movie while being limited to a budget of 15M so the quality difference between CGI and Suit animation is big. However the shots which only have suit animated monsters look absolutely stunning
But I still ended up loving it for it's uniqueness, great action, perfect toning, banger of a soundtrack, despite it's large number of flaws
Rating: 8.6/10.
The biggest problem this film has is it's pacing. In the first hour the pacing was really slow and took a while for the thing to do start but in the ladder hour, it was a bit too fast paced but me personally the film actually benefited from this because taking your time fighting 14 monsters would take hours which would eventually get boring. Also to really showcase how powerful Godzilla is
The greatest strength Godzilla Final Wars has is the action. Although very short, the monster fight scenes are still entertaining and I specifically liked the final battle. Despite being a Godzilla film, it actually has more human fight scenes and from someone who likes martial arts, they were fantastic and great.
The overall tone of this film mimics the showa era by having fighting humans, aliens, monster martial art but one key difference is that this is a lot more serious-toned so the goofy wack of the Showa era I hated isn't present. One more thing to add is that this has a ton of western-hollywood influence being still tonally distinct enough to be unique
The human stuff were ok, definitely one of the weaker human plots of the series but the human action sequences were entertaining so I still found it entertaining. Some of the cast gave amazing performances whilst others like Gordon have incredibly dry ones. BTW why was he speaking English while everyone else was speaking Japanese?
One critical issue I was surprised about is how terrible some of the CGI has aged. Some scenes and shots that are made up of CGI hasn't aged the best but this film has the ambitions of a Hollywood movie while being limited to a budget of 15M so the quality difference between CGI and Suit animation is big. However the shots which only have suit animated monsters look absolutely stunning
But I still ended up loving it for it's uniqueness, great action, perfect toning, banger of a soundtrack, despite it's large number of flaws
Rating: 8.6/10.