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Godzilla: Final Wars

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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

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12/25/08
Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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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

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07/11/08
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

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.

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01/03/06
Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
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...it becomes clear almost immediately that Kitamura is absolutely the wrong choice for the material...

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12/18/05
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

... 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.

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12/14/05
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
St@tic Multimedia

Happy birthday, Godzilla! Sorry your movie stinks.

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12/10/05
David Cornelius
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12/06/05
Film Threat

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.

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08/05/05
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

If this truly is his last outing, at least he’s going out with a massive bang.

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07/12/05
Jim Agnew
Jim Agnew
Film Threat
 
 
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