Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
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What critics compared Godzilla: Final Wars to
The worldwide appearance of monsters (or "Titans," as they are called here) echoes Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla: Final Wars.
That said, it’s probably the most kaiju-esque “Godzilla” movie since “Godzilla: Final Wars” sent the lovable lizard into hibernation in 2004.
Among purist Tohoites, the Emmerich monster is derisively referred to as “Zilla”; in 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, he reappears as part of a series-record-setting 13-monster invasion unleashed by an intergalactic tyrant, but lasts about a minute against the One True Godz , who hurls him into the Sydney Opera House before disintegrating him, a finishing move that doubled as an act of film criticism (and architecture criticism, I guess).
Of all possible outcomes for the new American-made Godzilla , one that I wasn't prepared for at all was that, at the macro level, it would have exactly the same structural problems that the last Godzilla film, 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars did.