doafan-34916
I've only seen Godzilla: Final Wars twice in my life and the very first time I watched it and seen that ball of fire coming to earth, I knew that it wasn't a planet as the Xilions had said it was. I just felt that it was (excuse the pun) more than meets the eye. When Godzilla blasts it and you see that it is indeed a monster, I laughed as I knew who it was right away. If any of you are a monster fan like I am you would've realized that there was only 1 monster that ever came from outer space. you can call it Ghidrah or King Ghidora, but they are one in the same monster. Sure one is green in color and the other is gold in color but when you put 2 and 2 together you get the same monster.
Eric Stevenson
I'm not going to lie and say this was great, but I ended up enjoying it. I guess it probably has a low enough rating for me to consider it a guilty pleasure. I can see why some people wouldn't like it. It's mostly because it probably is too long and the special effects with the CGI aren't that good. It's the longest Japanese Godzilla movie ever! Right from the get go, we get tons of action and explosions! I guess you could compare it to some of Michael Bay's less awful films. This movie features tons of old Godzilla monsters appearing and fighting him.We even delve more into the Godzilla mythology as we analyze exactly why Godzilla can be regarded as both a villain and a hero in this medium. The best part is probably when we get a cameo by none other than the 1998 American Godzilla! He's beaten in a minute, a mockery of that dumb movie. Luckily the 2014 film was much better. The humans, or should I say mutants contribute well as we get some nice fight scenes with them and the aliens. Dang, why'd they have to have Godzilla's son in this? ***
leeisfreee
laughed so hard, me and my mates checked this movie out got completely blazed up (couple of nug nugs in dat bong) and laughed all the way through. yo dat evil guy has the funniest laugh lol! be sure to check out the English dubbed version, it makes it extra-funny!it had so many plots going at one point i thought my brain was gonna pop, real talk.on a serious not though, dat stank we puffed wus guud, i mean REAL good. all i did was laugh for 2 hours straight and we didn't even put it in a cake or anything. if you ever get the chance make sure to blaze up before hand cuz dang son.i give it 5 dank out of 420
xamtaro
Godzilla final warGodzilla bows out on his 50th birthday with the massive multi monster mashup GODZILLA FINAL WAR. Stylishly directed by horror action director Ryuhei Kitamura, GODZILLA FINAL WAR is essentially a modernized remake of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS. Godzilla, the king of monsters, lies trapped under the Arctic ice, but earth is determined never to be caught off guard again by giant monsters. The Esrth Defense Force trains an elite team of soldiers comprising men and women enhanced by a mysterious mutant gene. Led by captain Douglas Gordon, the man who first defeated the legendary Godzilla many years ago, this M-Organisation hunts down monsters across the globe. The discovery of an ancient cyborg creature called Gigan leads to a monster invasion of titanic proportions. Giant beasts appear across the globe, wrecking havoc. Captain Gordon leads his team of mutant monster hunters in the Gotengo, an advanced spacecraft armed to the teeth. But just as the counterattack is underway, the monsters are seemingly disintegrated by human like aliens known as the Xilliens. The Xilliens come in peace, but Captain Gordon has his suspicions. These suspicions are proved right when it is discovered that the ancient cyborg, the mutant soldiers and the Xilliens share the same mutant gene. This same gene allows them to be put under mind control! With chaos reigning from within and from beyond, captain Gordon initiates a plan to turn Godzilla loose on the invaders.Sure we have seen this monster mash up scenario play out across multiple forms of fiction, but only here does it play out under the keen direction of Ryuuhei Kitamura. Kitamura brings a stylish dynamic look to FINAL WAR; visually! it looks on par with blockbusters 10 times it's budget. His direction in action scenes is intense and fast paced, using a good range of camera tricks to bring out the scale and ferocity of the monster clashes. Yet mr kitamura's visual acumen cannot make up for all the other flaws of this movie. First and foremost being the story, which manages to rip off Star Wars, x-men, the matrix, universal soldier, and many other far superior Hollywood films. The unoriginal premise and plot comprises a range of over acted characters trying to be "edgy". The actors turn in fine performances with nothing entirely cringe worthy, but the fault lies in the writer who pens some truly cheesy lines right out of bad fan fiction. I do however appreciate the diverse ethnicity of the characters, under utilized though they may be, which gives the movie a broader international feel. You may recognize Kane Kosugi, Hollywood actor and son of the classic ninja actor Sho Kosugi, as well as Don Frye channeling the best of middle age macho through his character of Captain Gordon. Being a 2004 movie, one should not expect too much in terms of special effects. Is it then too much to expect for special effects to improve just a little bit from the mid 1990s? Sure the movie is in HD but the miniatures, monster costumes and pyrotechnics look just as good (or bad) as Godzilla movies from the 90s. Basically, the more elaborate a monster design, the stiffer it moves. More agile monsters like King Caesar, Gigan and Monster X look like something's out of power rangers. Godzilla himself looks leaner but has a weird tiny head, rat like ears, a perpetual squint and moves just as stiff as most millennium era Godzillas. Unlike other Godzilla movies where the big G gets up close and personal to deliver the beat down on enemy monsters, Godzilla in FINAL WAR is a living deus ex machina overusing an over powered nuclear breath to solve every conflict. This fight strategy of blowing away enemies with a giant mouth laser soon becomes real old real fast. So the creative team throws in some truly hilarious scenes like having Godzilla play soccer with 2 other monsters while using another monster as the ball. It is instances like this, and much of the hammy human dominated scenes (not to mention every appearance of Godzilla's baby Minila) that makes this movie more like a parody than a serious blockbuster.No doubt that GODZILLA FINAL WAR was an ambitious project, but the skills of director Kitamura and the film's actors were hampered by an insultingly bad Japanese script (and a laughably horrid English dub), an unoriginal convoluted story with too many sub plots, weak special effects, and a synthesizer soundtrack right out of some old video game. This would be the movie that drove the Godzilla franchise into a 10 year hibernation until it's revival in the 2014 Hollywood remake.
