Reviews

Finally a Godzilla movie with interesting and developed characters, for this point it's certainly the best of the franchise.

(Spoiler part) I also thought the death of one particular character was really surprising... Well, until she suddenly turns out to be alive at the end, in order to allow a happy ending. Kind of ruined the meaning of the death for the main character and emotion part (as the title "Minus One" can have a meaning for Japan overall AND specificaly the main hero).

The idea to set the story in the 40's Japan is also interesting, as a foreigner i really discovered this post-war period of the country that i didn't really know about (i only saw Kurosawa's "Subarashiki nichiyobi" prior to this movie).

The actions sequences are also very cool. You definitively won't be disapointed with them. I loved the treatment of the King of the Monsters, who have an interesting design and new ability (both are kind of linked).

I saw it in a casual cinema, but i guess the IMAX version is worth it, so go for it if you got the chance.

Well, usually the end is a surprise, here you see it coming almost at the beginning. Also many problems with the script, some nonsense, especially when the hero is a cop and should have guesses most of what's happening way sooner.

Except that, i liked some of the traps ideas and i didn't get bored while watching the movie.

Could maybe have been further with the gory effects, but the job is done.

Of course i didnt expect the best movie ever, with this kind of direct-to-video stuff you know it has higher chances to be bad than good.

Special effects are mostly bad, but some dinos really look good in comparison of others. For exemple the pterodactyles are badly animated and poorly embedded, but for bigger dinos, more efforts seem to have been made.

I still kind of enjoyed the first movie, The Jurassic Games, but this time the movie disturbed me for its... Racism ?

I mean, it's produced by chinese people and so, they put a lot of chinese actors in the movie. Why not. But the fact that all the chinese characters survive as long as possible and have "badass" scenes, while all the american ones die little by little and are mean or stupid is really weird. Ho, and no afro-americans at all, i don't know if it was asked by the producters also... Not sure how to feel about it.

Of course the movie is far to be perfect, but Let's be honest: it's way better than the remake from 2008.

Bloodline is more faithfull to the original Romero's movie and it manages to include some interesting new stuff. For exemple i love what they did to the character that replaces Bub, Max is indeed a "fun" idea.

The most important problems here are the development of some characters, the main antagonist not as crazy and detestable as the original movie for exemple, and some good ideas that would have deserved a better treatment to be more credible/interesting. Same goes for the bond between characters (the sick girl and her mother, or Zoe and Max and her bofriend for instance).

And more bloody/gory stuff would have been nice too. Nothing really shocking here.

Spielberg give us a very good movie, full of geeky references - video games, comics, movies (fans of horror movies too will be thrilled) - and more than that, a very good sci-fi movies.

All the geeky stuff shown in the trailers are far to be the most important part of this movie. The overall universe is interesting (real world too, not only the Oasis).

Being fan of the book, I'm not happy with all the changes made (the first trial to get the first key is now a deadly race, and some characters killed in the books survive in the movie). BUT there is some nice ideas too (The second trial, genius). And of course they scraped some geeky japanese references that 90% of people won't have understand, but fortunately they kept some of the most famous ones, which brings us an awsome fight!

Good job Spielberg, 71years old but still making very good movies for the young audience, way better than most of the blockbusters we see nowadays.

The people behind this didn't take any risks and give us just a movie where you need to let your brain at home. So don't expect a deep story and deep characters, but big fights with big robots and (very) big monsters.

But there is still some nice ideas, For exemple, how Kaiju "evolved" in this sequel, and how the the Precursors managed to "come back".

So, overall it's entertaining, but I hate those kind of blockbusters that thinks people are too stupid to enjoy a big budget movie if the plot is too clever, or the characters too different of what they are used too. Because in 5 years they got all the time needed to make an awsome sequel instead of a movie fast forgotten once seen.

I really hope the third movie will have more work behind it (please come back Guillermo del Toro). Because yes, the ending leads to a new sequel. But not if it doesn't bring enough cash I guess.

I knew the remake of this Disney movie, more of my generation, and I discovered only recently it was a remake, and I wanted to see the original. Now it's done!

So, the story is mostly the same, very casual, but it's very interesting to follow! The landscape is beautiful and the crew did an awesome job with the animals ! I'm still wondering how they managed the Lynx vs. cat sequence. You don't see that anymore nowadays! The only (little) negative point is that there's no "bad" humans. Everyone is nice and helpful. I know it's a Disney movie, but I think it was kinda weird.

A Godzilla like monster emerges in Japan, after a truck full of uranium felt in the ocean because of a violent typhoon.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes, the Kaiju appears fast on screen and there isn't any dead time. The only problem, for the whole 4 episodes, is Goro, the journalist. He's kinda annoying, always saying to everyone that he never let go a case, and that's why he's called a "suppon" (that what the subtitles says in the DVD you can find on Amazon, not sure of what that means)).

The two last episodes are less entertaining, as two bandits brothers are added to the story. The main story take then a different path, focusing on them searching a briefcase full of narcotics underwater and holding hostage a kid. I won't spoil everything, but let's just say the show ends weirdly. The fact that the monster hold a boat in his mouth the whole last episode for no particular reason, and the way he is beaten are kinda strange.

Anyway, overall this "Giant phantom Monster Agon" is nice/okay and if you're fan of Kaiju Eiga, I think you'll enjoy this little TV show.

If you want to see how not to make a good horror movie, watch this Amityville Haunting. If not, run away from it!

The first bad thing is the found-footage option. OK it's easier to film that way when you don't have a lot of money to put in your movie, but here it's badly used.For example the kid explaining to the camera what he just filmed at the end of every sequences is annoying and useless, same thing for the screen turning suddenly black for some seconds during all the movie.

Then the movie is full of "clichés" : The teenage girl is ALWAYS on her phone and ALWAYS in bad mood, the youngest sister of course have an "imaginary" friend that turns out to be a ghost, the parents don't believing anything supernatural happens when they know the past of the house and people are dying around them or closed doors open by themselves...

And of course, the acting is bad. Most of the cast don't have a big experience so don't expect too much from them.

Finally.... not a lot of stuff happens. Except some fast apparitions or off-screen deaths. You have to wait the very end to see something A LITTLE more interesting.

So let this movie be a forgotten footage and don't try to find it. Really, it doesn't worth to waste your time on that.

Not a very popular nor an excellent Kaijû Eiga (the story is too classic and cliché, maybe it's a satire so it's maybe on purpose but not sure), but still entertaining and funny !

Entertaining because you see a lot the men in rubber suits destroying plastic stuff as buildings and tanks for example, and the humans part are not really boring.

Funny because how cheap the special effects are (they didn't have as much money as Toho studios I guess), the way the monsters look (did Godzilla had babies with Rodan ? According to the french title of the movie it's not impossible) and how the woman photographer is considered by her colleague : He tells her something like "be a normal woman and stay at the kitchen and go change baby diapers" (and that's exactly what she's going to do at the end of the movie by the way, feminists should definitely not watch this movie to avoid a heart attack).

The end with the baby Gappa learning how to fly is ridiculously fun too, it reminds me of Minilla learning how to spit fire in one of the "Godzilla" movies...

If you like Kaijû movies and having a good laugh give it a try !