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Godzilla (1998)

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Reviews Counted:58

Fresh:15

Rotten:43

Average Rating:4.7/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Nuclear testing once again awakens the green behemoth. Godzilla demolishes large portions of New York.

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Maria Pitillo, Jean Reno, Hank Azaria

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Maria Pitillo, Jean Reno, Hank Azaria

Director: Roland Emmerich

Director: Roland Emmerich
Producer: Kelly Van Horn, Peter Winther
Composer: David Arnold
Screenwriter: Dean Devlin

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Garth Franklin

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Joe Leydon

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1/5

Rob Gonsalves

A great lumbering beast that has no personality, has size but no power.

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3/5

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1.5/5

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Robin Clifford

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Philip Martin

This is the view from the end of the world -- we look on the smoking ruin of Manhattan and shrug and eat our popcorn.

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Jeffrey Overstreet

Godzilla ... is so poorly written and so un-original that it makes Independence Day sound like Shakespeare.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Martin Scribbs

Where's stock footage of Raymond Burr when you need it?

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Judith Egerton

If only one could fast-forward past the idiot characters to the parts where the creature nests in Madison Square Garden, crushes Fifth Avenue and chomps a taxicab.

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Desson Thomson

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Stephen Hunter

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