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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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11/27/08
Joe Leydon
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A great lumbering beast that has no personality, has size but no power.

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02/14/08
Rob Gonsalves
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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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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01/17/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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

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12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
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07/20/04
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Where's stock footage of Raymond Burr when you need it?

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07/19/04
Martin Scribbs
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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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07/01/04
Judith Egerton
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