Godzilla 2000: Millennium (2023)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Absolutely brilliant

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This film was supposed to be like, the new beginning for the Godzilla series. Don't get me wrong, it's not that bad of a film, but it wasn't really that impressive to me either. I gotta admit, the UFO, the organics and the overall transformation of Godzilla's foe in this film is pretty interesting. It's something I haven't seen in any Kaiju movie, nor have I seen it in any more recent films. The effects are good, the monster designs are good, but otherwise it just wasn't anything that really stood out for me. Maybe I'm just old fashioned because I prefer the older Godzilla films, but hey, beggers can't be choosers.

Quite enjoyable Godzilla film has out reptilian hero fighting a giant space monster. This was the first film in the Millennium series reboot of the Godzilla franchise, which ignored the continuity of all the prior films with the exception of the original first film. Godzilla movies can become a blur of men in rubber suits pounding on one another, but this one features better special effect than most and also features quite a few kaiju battles (including some very well filmed nighttime battle sequences), which makes this entry into the long running series is well worth watching for Godzilla fans.

I just saw this last night. I the first time I watched this movie I did not like it. But now I do like this movie. The Godzilla reboot from 1998 is better. I do not like the why people are always underrating that movie but still this is a very good movie. It has a great story line. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is part twenty three to the Japan Godzilla series. It is better then the tenth Godzilla movie Godzilla's revenge. This is a very scary movie. It is scary then The silence of the lambs ever could be. Part twenty four to the Godzilla series Godzilla vs Megagurius is better. But still this a great movie. See it.

Oddly enough, this picture references two Stanley Kubrick movies: a trigger-happy general quotes STRANGELOVE'S Buck Turgidson on casualty estimates (at least in the American dub), and from certain angles the silver spaceship strongly resembles the genital sculpture with which Alex commits murder in CLOCKWORK ORANGE. I'm no purist, but I like GODZILLA 2000 because it's the same as it ever was. Like that beer from the glass-lined tanks of Old Latrobe, Godzilla movies are a vaguely unsatisfying commodity. With Rolling Rock, you have to put up with watery taste, lack of kick and flatulent hangover. With Godzilla, you must endure the insipid reporter, precocious child and idiotic dialog. But Rolling Rock will eventually get you drunk, and if you wait long enough Godzilla will stomp Tokyo.For my money this is the best Godzilla suit design - the villainous, toothsome saurian head is a vast improvement over the cuddly teddy bear of the 60s and 70s, and the body is significantly more athletic. We don't need a comic Ali shuffle anymore to convey the Lizard King's agility, because he no longer looks like he might fall over just out of awkwardness. And the flaming halo around his mouth before he breathes fire is a very nice touch. What's remarkable is that the special effects for these films didn't change much for almost fifty years. After this one, the Toho movies started using a lot of CGI, which is okay with me; but this is mostly old school, models and practicals on wires, with the computer effects reserved for energy blasts and morphing. 2000 has a marginally more sophisticated greenscreen technique than most of its predecessors, and a big enough budget to knock down a variety of structures without repeating itself. In fact this late entry is one of my favorites as far as exploding miniatures are concerned. The sets are complicated and intricate and look great on fire. The scenes of rampage and of battle are well-photographed and nicely edited. One questionable leap forward is the footage of real tanks spliced with shots of those wonderful plastic toys. Unfortunately, this movie lacks the surreal absurdity of the old Toho B-plots. The space invaders aren't arbitrarily simian; nobody falls in love with a cyborg; there are no doll-sized Okinawan Andrews Sisters. Also, Godzilla's new clothes seem to have sucked up the money the older movies spent on a stable of rubber foes - Godzilla fights only one enemy here, not counting the Japanese people, and it's not much of a fight. As Naomi Nishida says, "Boy, that's ironic. It woke up after 60 million years, and then Godzilla destroyed it the very next day."But for the first time in awhile, Godzilla is not your friend. After the original movie, he spent two decades inexplicably protecting humanity while we shot at him; this Godzilla is a mysterious threat not looking to do us any favors. Here, he brings down a meddling Interior Minister (another CLOCKWORK ORANGE reference?), then systematically burns the city over credits. Kind of like Alex after he wakes up from enforced politeness, Godzilla is ready to cause trouble again.