WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Julian R. White This film was supposed to be like, the new beginning for the Godzilla series. Don't get me wrong, it's not that bad of a film, but it wasn't really that impressive to me either. I gotta admit, the UFO, the organics and the overall transformation of Godzilla's foe in this film is pretty interesting. It's something I haven't seen in any Kaiju movie, nor have I seen it in any more recent films. The effects are good, the monster designs are good, but otherwise it just wasn't anything that really stood out for me. Maybe I'm just old fashioned because I prefer the older Godzilla films, but hey, beggers can't be choosers.

a_chinn Quite enjoyable Godzilla film has out reptilian hero fighting a giant space monster. This was the first film in the Millennium series reboot of the Godzilla franchise, which ignored the continuity of all the prior films with the exception of the original first film. Godzilla movies can become a blur of men in rubber suits pounding on one another, but this one features better special effect than most and also features quite a few kaiju battles (including some very well filmed nighttime battle sequences), which makes this entry into the long running series is well worth watching for Godzilla fans.

robert60000000 In all honesty, I usually enjoy the campy, b-movie charm of the Godzilla movies. The great miniature work and the monster fights usually make up for nonsensical plots or cliché human characters. But nothing makes up for a boring Godzilla movie in my book. If you're making a movie about giant, fighting monsters the biggest sin you could commit is be boring. The perfectly simplistic plot still gets dragged out for most of the run time, where we're only introduced to a new kaiju in the last 30 minutes. The rest of the time we can watch Godzilla battle it out with a flying saucer. Riviting. You know your fight scenes lack any sense of emergency when all your villains basically die standing around being useless. The human characters are annoying. No one likable. The potentially charming father-daughter scientific duo never does anything besides being pretentious, self-important assholes. Honestly the movie could have been way better, have they focused on Godzilla and the monster fights. The effects (explosions, destruction of buildings, atomic breath) were great (save that flying saucer) along with the new suit. If they gave two shits about choreography or pacing the whole thing would have turned out fine. I understand that this movie was Godzilla's great return after 1995 and a lot of people may have major nostalgia for it, but in my personal experience with the franchise, there are way better flicks out there.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Not the best start to a new series of Godzilla movies, but it'll do. It did have some work to do after the shitstorm that was the American Godzilla. It mostly makes up for that. We get a guy in a suit, looking better than ever. The film also brings us some CGI, with a wonderfully dodgy looking spaceship. I praise this film for not holding back on its imagination. I wish people would stay away from the American dubs. I've never seen one, and I've enjoyed the series thoroughly. This film had everything I'd come to expect, but seemed scared of being too outlandish. Hiroshi Abe also ruined a lot of the movie by having ONE look. Was it fear? Was it determination? Was it confusion? I'll never know.