Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

tristenjones-74208 Now, coming from a lifelong Godzilla fan, this film still kind of shocks me. Now when I first watched this film, and saw Zilla for the first time, I thought that Godzilla would show up later and would fight the monster. However toward the end of the film when I found out that was actually supposed to be Godzilla. I was in complete shock. I had no words. For one, the monster looks nothing like him, and his personality was nothing like Godzilla's. Godzilla's common personality was to go through and destroy everything in sight, this one, it just walks through New York not destroying anything. I mean, most of the destruction came from the military. And most damage Godzilla, sorry ZILLA created, was toward the end when he was going to die. Also, don't even get me started on the baby Zilla's. They look like the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park, and although the scenes don't look half bad, it's just to more of an Alien/Mutated version of the Jurassic Park raptors scene.Although you try to not focus on humans in Godzilla movies, the humans are just unbearable in the film. Being the most bland characters you can see in a movie. The only character that's actually interesting is Jean Reno. Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitillo just want to make you fall asleep. While the others can be viewed as just completely annoying.Now this movie wasn't all bad, I was definitely entertained by it in some scenes, however I just don't see it as a Godzilla film, because it really isn't. Even calling it Zilla is being nice, because I can't see it being remotely near Godzilla. I mean you don't see a movie of a Barbie Doll coming to life and then call it "Childs Play." No, this movie isn't bad, but it's not a Godzilla film in my mind. 4/10 stars below average.

TheMunkeyBoy Not really a review, just an opinion from seeing it 20 years after it was released. I never cared too much to see it as I thought it looked a little fake from the previews that I saw back in the day (although I did buy the soundtrack back then for the songs). Decided to watch it and although I cringed at a lot of parts - some of the direction, sometimes the acting or the dialogue that was written, plus a lot of the CGI - there was a lot that could have been better. It wasn't a good story. The CGI wasn't great, even for the time. Character interactions were shocking at times. But, I still found myself watching to the end and I had a good time. The more recent 2014 Godzilla was outstanding in my opinion and this '98 mo ie does not touch that. But, I just viewed it as an over-hollywoodised monster film and just enjoyed it as a B-Grade movie in a better budget. That way I could laugh in some places. I don't really recommend the film. But it wasn't a total disaster. It really did remind me of how a lot of films were done in the 90's - the style in which they wrote I mean. We've come a long way.

russellian The movie is generic and cheesy and pretty stupid, but it has a little charm. This is the movie that got me into Godzilla. I can forgive it for its flaws.

lar_lef Follows more or less traditional pattern of monster movie. Enbjoyable even though you know the good guys (we humans) will win out in the end, and the romantic aspect will be resolved suitably. Good-natured poking fun at a lost of familiar targets. A bit too long, in my opinion, but not for fans of the genre. Last scene with new monster being hatched there, i suppose, to allow for sequel, but still a kind of he (it)-who- laughs last laughs.