Godzilla (1998)
Directed by Roland Emmerich
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
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When the radioactive beast first reveals itself, it looks like an overgrown polliwog, hunched over and almost slithering on its belly (an unpleasant reminder of Emmerich and Devlin’s 1998 Godzilla).
Where the 1998 Godzilla borrowed heavily (and clumsily) from Jurassic Park , particularly in its middle act, Edwards occasionally looks back to the Spielberg of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind , with a particular fondness for slow camera movements that reveal first a little, then a lot of an awe-inspiring spectacle.
The latest makes Roland Emmerich's maligned 1998 update look like Alien.