Simply Perfect

Purely Joyful Movie!

Powerful

Just perfect...

I just saw this last night. I the first time I watched this movie I did not like it. But now I do like this movie. The Godzilla reboot from 1998 is better. I do not like the why people are always underrating that movie but still this is a very good movie. It has a great story line. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is part twenty three to the Japan Godzilla series. It is better then the tenth Godzilla movie Godzilla's revenge. This is a very scary movie. It is scary then The silence of the lambs ever could be. Part twenty four to the Godzilla series Godzilla vs Megagurius is better. But still this a great movie. See it.

I found this 1999 offering to be quite a nice piece of work. I was prepared to see the same old same old, and in some sense, it is. But the producers of this film decided that there needed to be a little more of a human story, a little more plot. The issues here are the scientists versus the megalomaniacs who see intent on destroying the big fellow. As they try to understand him, a gigantic rock emerges from the ocean floor. It is sheltering an ancient space ship/flying saucer. The amazing advancements in science become apparent. The problem is that like "Independence Day," these guys are up to no good. They confront Godzilla and defeat him for the time being. He is resilient and his cells begin to regenerate. Meanwhile, the military does its all out thing to destroy this. We know they are in trouble when the most advanced weaponry is useless against Godzilla and the new kids on the block. There is a sort of sappy story where three researchers become the focus, but the special effects and the general presentation dominate. There is a really cool final scene too.

Once you have seen one of the Japanese Godzilla movies then you have essentially seen them all; a monstrous threat stands against Tokyo in the shape of a massive creature and Godzilla emerges to fight the creature.The story in "Godzilla 2000" (aka "Gojira ni-sen mireniamu") was another copy-and-paste storyline of basically every other Godzilla movie. And it is a wonder that with almost 30 movies that there still is a market for the 1954-born king of monsters Godzilla, and even more so impressive that Tokyo still stands.The effects in this 1999 addition to the Godzilla franchise was actually quite alright and did help the movie as being entertaining.I watched a version that had only an English and French dubbed audio track, much to my irritation. I do prefer movies in their original language. And yes, "Godzilla 2000" had one of those really bad dubbed voice tracks that makes you wonder just where did they dig up someone who talks like that.Godzilla is a force to be reckoned with and has been so since 1954.

In 1995, Toho decided to give Godzilla his second break by killing him off in the film "Godzilla vs Destroyah." Three years later, Tristar did their American remake and, while a commercial success and an entertaining movie itself, it greatly disappointed tons of fans like myself. Japan was pretty upset over the mutant iguana that attacked New York City, so in the next year, they made this awesome movie, which was released in the U.S. another year later.Plot: For years, Godzilla has terrorized humanity and ironically saved them from other monsters. Dr. Shinoda and his organization, The Godzilla Prevention Network, have been studying the monster for a long time and has made a wonderful discovery. This discovery not only draws attention to CCI (Crisis Control Intelligence) that's dedicated to killing Godzilla, but also a mysterious alien with extraordinary powers that has been asleep on Earth for 60 million years. Sensing that the planet is in peril, Godzilla heads off to face this foe in a battle that will have Tokyo tremble before their might.The timing can not be more perfect. Godzilla, the real one, coming to theaters out of vacation shortly after the American wannabe film in the year 2000. The story is great, having lots of cool parts and centering around a unique characteristic Godzilla has that is not often discussed in most of his movies. Human characters are pretty decent in my opinion, each having their own strengths and weaknesses. The action scenes are some of the best in the series, especially Godzilla's final battle with the alien Orga as they destroy anything in their path to kill each other. The suits for the monsters are just excellent and pretty iconic.There's no doubt about it, this one of the best Godzilla movies I have ever seen, if not the best in the series. Definitely worth the watch. All hail the King of the Monsters!