I personally think this is just below average, I just have nothing to say about. The fact that I watched an English dubbing rather than the Japanese version may have severely affected my experience as I'm not a fan of terrible acting.
Godzilla himself really didn't have anything special, his re-design is cool I must admit, but he was just so stiff and the same goes for Kiryu. It only had like 20 seconds of flued movement and that was it. The time he flies back is also just stiffness. There's just none of those cool monster action most of audience came here to see
The human drama doesn't fair much better either. It's just some dude being an annoying a-hole because our main character, Akane simply made a mistake 4 years prior. The little girl however kind of carries the whole human interactions. Speaking of which, she actually carries the entire film for matter in fact because scenes with her are genuinely heartwarming and charming opposed to the boring main plot
The pacing is way to fast. One blink and we're already at the climax, and another blink the film's over. More depth and flued long monster action easily would have fixed it's pacing issues, but nope
And don't even get me started with the atrocious dubbing. The Japanese version is probably fine because there's some decent actors here but just man the dubbing is just pure torture. The characters sounds like how a 10 year would sound after getting scolded because they just have no emotions. Plus the dub really doesn't fit the their perspective characters
The plot is so boring, we don't get half decent scenes until the 2nd half the film when the little girl talks to Akane at the rooftop. Speaking of which that scene was glaring hope as it was the only truly good scene in the entire film. The few wise words the little girl says is genuinely really touching. But then we get to the boring, dragged out, anti-climactic Godzilla vs Kiryu scene. Despite how hard the film tries, Akane to me just has no charm or characterization whatsoever so her supposed sacrifice didn't really affect me
Overall just a mediocre entry in Godzilla's most mid era. Perhaps I would have liked it if I decided to go for the Japanese version but it's still the same plot, action etc so nothing would really change
Rating: 5.8/10.
Godzilla himself really didn't have anything special, his re-design is cool I must admit, but he was just so stiff and the same goes for Kiryu. It only had like 20 seconds of flued movement and that was it. The time he flies back is also just stiffness. There's just none of those cool monster action most of audience came here to see
The human drama doesn't fair much better either. It's just some dude being an annoying a-hole because our main character, Akane simply made a mistake 4 years prior. The little girl however kind of carries the whole human interactions. Speaking of which, she actually carries the entire film for matter in fact because scenes with her are genuinely heartwarming and charming opposed to the boring main plot
The pacing is way to fast. One blink and we're already at the climax, and another blink the film's over. More depth and flued long monster action easily would have fixed it's pacing issues, but nope
And don't even get me started with the atrocious dubbing. The Japanese version is probably fine because there's some decent actors here but just man the dubbing is just pure torture. The characters sounds like how a 10 year would sound after getting scolded because they just have no emotions. Plus the dub really doesn't fit the their perspective characters
The plot is so boring, we don't get half decent scenes until the 2nd half the film when the little girl talks to Akane at the rooftop. Speaking of which that scene was glaring hope as it was the only truly good scene in the entire film. The few wise words the little girl says is genuinely really touching. But then we get to the boring, dragged out, anti-climactic Godzilla vs Kiryu scene. Despite how hard the film tries, Akane to me just has no charm or characterization whatsoever so her supposed sacrifice didn't really affect me
Overall just a mediocre entry in Godzilla's most mid era. Perhaps I would have liked it if I decided to go for the Japanese version but it's still the same plot, action etc so nothing would really change
Rating: 5.8/10.