Well, this was interesting. I liked all the effects, the destruction scenes were impressive, and I liked the different approach, all shown following those in the government that must deal with it. The ending was a bit disappointing, in the way that it’s not a real ending, I was left thinking ‘what now? what are they gonna do with it?’. The American girl character was annoying. I was surprised, what with this being a Japanese movie, that it made the Japanese government look.. well honestly the government looked like a bunch of old fools, only caring about age and hierarchy, luckily there were also a few younger ones who took hold of the situation and managed to actually do something.
At first it seems almost like a documentary. The Prime Minister and all the various ministers talking about it. Something happens at the Tokyo Bay, they start talking about it, if it was an earthquake or something else, and secretary Yaguchi speaks about a video that went viral on the internet. Everyone’s angry at him because he dared to speak, but of course it is soon very clear that he was right and it is indeed a living creature.
Yaguchi calls a young assistant who understands about this things (I don’t know, more than the others for sure) but all the old guys do not appreciate her input, of course because she’s only a young assistant, so the PM does his crappy figure in front of the media declaring the creature will not leave the waters right before it does, starting to ‘walk’.
It’s a strange lizard-fish-like creature walking on four legs, then it evolves and becomes taller, standing on two legs.
We follow the government, but there are so many names, so many ministers and such that I don’t remember any of them; they keep moving from one room to the other, it’s a long succession of meetings, discussions about names and procedures, it seems like they are having trouble dealing with this situation mostly because nobody before thought of including a ‘in-case-of-giant-unknown-creature-destroying-Tokyo’-protocol, so they don’t know what they should do...
It seems like years ago a lot of radioactive wastes were left in the waters and this creatures ate it, thriving on it.
The US sends a young woman as their ambassador to deal with this, and it was the most annoying thing, I so didn’t like this character, very annoying.
Anyway, she speaks of professor Goro who spoke about mutations due to radiations but was banned by the governments. They found a few papers on his abandoned yacht, but it’s hard to understand what they mean.
The Americans named the creature Godzilla, and after some discussion they keep the name. It had disappeared because it was overheated, but now it reappears and it’s changed again, much bigger and tougher-looking.
They launch everything they have at it, but with no effect: bullets are nothing more than flies, then they use rockets and tanks, with the only result that Godzilla strikes back, from its mouth and back, strong rays of light destroy everything they encounter, planes or buildings, killing many government people in the process, so a new PM is appointed, the former minister of agriculture.
Godzilla is out of energy for a while, giving them a little time.
The United Nations are worried about the situation and intend to use nuclear weapons on Tokyo if they don’t solve the situation in time.
Yaguchi’s team keeps studying the creature and Goro’s notes, and come up with a plan to freeze it.
Godzilla destroys entire districts.
When they are ready, they provoke Godzilla into using its energy again, they send against it plane drones, and train drones, then they purposefully destroy buildings around it to trap him down long enough to inject into its mouth the cooling solution they have prepared. It takes a lot of work, of course, but they manage it, and Godzilla is frozen solid where it is.
They say that the radiation caused by Godzilla won’t last long, so Tokyo will be rebuilt. The United Nations say that in case of Godzilla awakening again they will launch a nuclear attack to stop it.
We don’t know what they intend to do with it now, since it’s not exactly ‘over’ yet, but the movie ends here.
ITA Shin Godzilla
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