Godzilla Still King Of The Monsters!

Good day my friends, hope all is well with you all! It seems another week is upon us, wow the month of May is just flying by here. But with another week comes one of my movie reviews you can be sure of that. So with more and more movies coming out as we get into the summer movie season, I try and stay up to date and pick one of movie each week to review for you all. And this week is no different, as I have picked a blast from the past that is making a return to the big screen for us all. Yes you guessed it I am reviewing the movie Godzilla. This movie stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson(Kick-Ass) as Ford Brodie, Ken Watanabe(Inception) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, Bryan Cranston(Breaking Bad) as Joe Brodie and Elizabeth Olsen(Oldboy) as Elle Brodie. Now let us see if this Godzilla movie is better than the one that was made in 1998 that starred Matthew Broderick.

When an underground cavern in the Philippines is discovered in 1999 with some radioactive signatures in it and upon examining the cave Dr. Serizawa(Watanabe) finds the skeletal remains of a large creature, a large spore and evidence of a second one that seems to have hatched. The hatched creature finds it's way to a nuclear power plant in Japan where Joe Brodie(Cranston) and his wife Sandra(Juliette Binoche) work. The creature causes a nuclear disaster which kills Brodie's wife leaving him to raise their son Ford. Fifteen years pass and Ford Brodie is Bomb specialist for the Navy and happily married to Elle(Olsen)  living in San Francisco and has a son of his own. But when his father Joe is arrested in Japan for going into the quarantine zone from the nuclear power plant disaster looking for answers to questions about that fateful day to which he knows that it was more than an earthquake.  Ford and Joe find more than they imagined, one being that there is no radiation levels at all and that something was being hidden out there and is about to hatch. It is a creature that feeds on nuclear energy and gives off an EMP blast and it is hungry making its way towards the California coast line and its mate which was stored in a nuclear waste facility in Nevada. With the world seemingly at the mercy of these creatures Dr. Serizawa has the theory that there is one hope and that is a prehistoric creature known as Godzilla who has been awakened by these creatures to restore balance back to nature and destroy the creatures.

Well I hope I got the plot of the movie down right for you all! I must say firstly that it was great to see this movie franchise back to it's original roots. After the 1998 disaster of a movie which was changed so much and seemed so goofy this movie was a much better effort. I thought the story was interesting, well written and even little surprising. Here I thought it was going to be all about Godzilla causing destruction and it was more about him being mankind's only hope for survival. The connection between the characters was well thought out and worked perfectly. This movie had a human element and didn't just rely totally on special effects. While there some a couple of lulls in the movie, you were left not feeling disappointed by it. For me though I thought the build up of the confrontation between Godzilla and the two monsters was good. I even saw a bit of a message in this movie of us humans being arrogant thinking that we can control nature, but finding out we aren't and that we need nature to correct itself at times. Well this all leads me to five this movie a 7.5 on the Justin Scale Of movies making it a Pick-it movie to see in the theatres. A kind of a flashback to the old monster movies with a bit modern times effects thrown in, a treat to watch. So that does it my friends another review in the books here on my end, time to call it a wrap on this one. As always Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening and as always Good Viewing! I will see you all again at a the movies.