Godzilla, 3D/Imax. hollywood English Film Movie review, Johnson thomas, Rating: * * * 1/2
Godzilla(Imax/3D/English+dubbed in regional languages) Rating: * * * ½ impressively effected, this one is sized for Max-imum benefits in terms of high velocity entertainment and sheer FX wizardry.
Godzilla(Imax/3D/English+dubbed in regional languages) Rating: * * * ½ impressively effected, this one is sized for Max-imum benefits in terms of high velocity entertainment and sheer FX wizardry.
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English film review
Johnson Thomas
Gigantically
sized Awesome entertainment
Film: Godzilla(3D/IMAX)
Cast: Aaron Taylor Johnson, Elisabeth Olsen, Bryan
Cranston, David Stratham, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche, Richard T Jones,
Sally Hawkins
Director: Gareth Edwards
Rating: *
* * ½
Gareth Edwards ‘Godzilla’ is mainly about
point-of-view and perspective. As a viewer you feel like a tiny helpless human
in front of the massive effrontery unleashed by the gigantic creatures
rampaging through concrete forests leaving earthquake style havoc, death and
catastrophe in their wake. Edwards’
narrative takes it’s cue from the original Godzilla movie from 1954 which shows
the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings, and the subsequent devastation that followed.
Needless to say, Godzilla-the primordial monster is re-awakened from it’s death-like slumber by
radioactivity left in the wake of the bombings. The tracking shot swoops past
bloodied patients, camcorded with an immediacy that makes everything look and
seem in your face. The helpless American soldiers trying their best to contain
the fall-out of the rampaging beasts and eventually allowing for them to climax
into a fight against each other, look out-of-sorts and they well should be-
considering their arsenal , which when pitted against these humongous
indefatigable monsters who survive on radioactivity and have little or no
reaction to conventional weaponry, look like pointed darts that can barely make
a dent on a cardboard, leave alone, a colossus.
The narrative jumps through several decades in the
telling, taking logical leaps through time while focusing on a family
devastated by a horrendous loss. The exposition here, is first rate. It’s only
mid-way through the development that you get you first few glimpses of
Godzilla. Before that there are two other surprises, equally ferocious and
devastating in purpose. The composition is a mix of epic horror elements, good
vs evil parable and evocative flashes into past monster histories, lending
strong tension and great stereophonics to the engagement. It’s a gradual
unveiling of the monstrous, as the narrative tracks the family through two
generations of valor against all odds affect. Bryan Cranston and Julietter
Binoche play the Brodys, the loving couple
with a young son, who are tracking nuclear activity in Janjira, Japan.
Tragedy strikes on the Dad’s birthday when Mrs Brody ends up fried by sudden
unexpected nuclear devastation. Several decades later, The son ( Aaron Taylor
Johnson) , now all grown and a parent himself with doctor wife (Elisabeth
Oksen), finds himself having to go back to Janjira, to rescue his father ,
caught trespassing in his old hunting ground. And from thereon he has to face
up to unforeseen challenges thrown up by the attack of the monsters.
The visuals are sized-up beautifully, there’s little
room for any doubts about your own painful vulnerability in front of these
humungous creatures. The helplessness is richly felt and fear is intertwined into the omnipotent
engagement.
It’s not about regular human drama. Here the picture
is vividly magnified, the scaling is mounted to give maximum effect. The humans
are but midgets and have little role to play in the restoring of order to the
ecosystem ravaged by multitudinal greed. But the film is not all death and
devastation. Edwards guides the camera through surreal intervals before
unleashing his FX enabled havoc. The animatronix and the digi-effects skill on
display here is highly impressive. It’s an experience and the actors are just
minor players in this effects carnival!
