150 Word Review: 'Godzilla Minus One' (2023)
The death star
Two kinds of duty are explored in Godzilla Minus One. The first is to the military, and the second is to the family.
When we first meet Kamiki Ryunosuke's Shikishima, he's a young Kamikaze pilot who refuses to sacrifice himself for a lost cause. Years later, he carries that shame into a new battle against a force of nature threatening the country and people he loves.
Godzilla Minus One is a monster movie about humans struggling to love, heal, and grow. It is a surprisingly moving blockbuster built on Godzilla, the mountain-sized radioactive lizard who's starred in dozens of features over the last 70 years. He's never been more terrifying.
Director Takashi Yamazaki's new vision of the famous kaijū returns the story to post-war Japan, a country devastated by air raids. His Godzilla is a nuclear-powered dinosaur that symbolizes the grief and fear of a nation processing its painful history.
I’m skipping this one. Never was a fan of Godzilla movies.
Thanks for the warning.
Godzilla can either be a serious threat or an unlikely superhero, but he has more range as the former. Toho, where he started out back in the '50s, keeps doing him better than the West.