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Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:4
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: The 28th installment in the ever-popular Japanese series is an ambitious affair, boasting 10 famous monsters, a very large budget, and talented director Ryuhei Kitamura. Sometime in the indefinite... The 28th installment in the ever-popular Japanese series is an ambitious affair, boasting 10 famous monsters, a very large budget, and talented director Ryuhei Kitamura. Sometime in the indefinite future, the world's major cities are suddenly attacked by 10 monsters at once; panic reigns until Earth is visited by benign aliens who put an end to the monster plague. On the verge of signing a peace treaty, the aliens and the humans have forgotten Godzilla, who sleeps under the ice of Antarctica. [More]
Starring: Masuhiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kazuki Kitamura
Starring: Masuhiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kazuki Kitamura
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Reviews for Godzilla: Final Wars
This 50th anniversary grand finale to the long-running series is a rush of explosive excitement that pays homage to what came before but hypes it up into a kinetic brew that feels fresh and exciting %u2014 not an obituary-like coda but a glorious send-off
This final film offers a lot of sound and fury and weaves fourteen copyright Toho monsters into one plot, but the film offers nothing that is both new and of interest. The plot is a re-tread of that of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS.
...it becomes clear almost immediately that Kitamura is absolutely the wrong choice for the material...
... a blithely campy, altogether good-natured love letter to the classic Godzilla films of the 1960s and 1970s directed by... Japan's adolescent action stylist.
This 28th entry in Toho Studio's series about the fire-breathing big fella is campily engaging for a while, but at two hours-plus you may come out feeling captivated dead.
If this truly is his last outing, at least he’s going out with a massive bang.
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