Godzilla Minus One
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The worst despair in the series' history strikes Japan! After the war, Japan has been reduced to zero. Godzilla appears and plunges the country into a negative state. The most desperate situation in the history of Japan. Who? And how? Will Japan stand up to it?
- Released: 2023-11-03
- Runtime: 125 minutes
- Genre: Action, Drama
- Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Sakura Ando, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yuya Endo, Kisuke Iida, Saki Nagatani, Mio Tanaka, Mio Tanaka
- Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Comments
- stvdstaak - 3 July 2024
What am I missing here..
Just incomprehensible that this movie gets good ratings. Yes there is a story about men coming together to fight the evil, the personal redemption of one of them and even an easy piece of critique on the Japanese leadership during the war. A lot to do about how meaningful and worthy every human life is, and yet everything should possibly be sacrificed for the greater good. Not a bad thought, but it's shoved down your throat without shame.
It's all just very cheesy, cheap and unoriginal. We are thrown into a story where the main character struggles with executing his job in the military, no backstory at all. And within a few minutes Godzilla shows up. A monster that could use some backstory or folklore itself, there is 0 percent suspense or build up. A monster that despite modern CGI feels less alive then the most crappy black and white version of past iterations. A monster that just gets a couple of minutes of screentime. This all because we need to experience heaps of emotions for the main character(s). And believe me, I love feeling for characters in asian movies, even when clearly lacking in acting skills- maybe especially when lacking acting skills. I'd dare to say that this often adds something that is hard to explain. Absolutely not in this case. Just (mostly) bad acting, boring drama and nothing more.
Why oh why, I don't get, I must be missing something here.. - scottishgeekguy - 28 June 2024
Not a Godzilla movie....in a good way...
Finally got around to seeing this... Wish I'd managed to see it in the cinema...
Normally when a godzilla movie focuses so much on the human characters I'm like "ffs... Just show more godzilla... We don't care about the humans!"
But in minus one... It's the opposite....
I wanted to spend time with these characters...
It's not a godzilla movie... It's a movie about the everyday people of Japan dealing with post war things....
Their defeat.... It's a broken country... The soldiers are broken, the sailers are broken... The people are broken... And trying to heal... To move on...
Godzilla gives them a common enemy they can unite against... With no question of morality or ethic or politcs.
This is a beautiful movie about the lives of everyday people in Japan in the immediate years after ww2.... It just happens to have godzilla in it.ijna.
