Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki
War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant. There is no third time. Everything ends here.
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…quintessential Godzilla that specifically harkens back to Ishirō Honda’s pinnacle 1954 film…
…the 39th film in the enduring Godzilla franchise…
…the atom-bomb allegory that the King of the Monsters was supposed to symbolise in 1954…
…including saying “Let them fight,” which was the best part of “Godzilla” (2014) thanks to Ken Watanabe…
This isn’t your grandparents’ “Godzilla,” where a guy in a rubber suit could destroy cardboard recreations of Tokyo…
His character is a homage to Dr. Daisuke Serizawa from director Ishirō Honda’s original 1954 Godzilla.
Toho’s 1964 film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster is one of my favorite films, a perfectly constructed monster mash filled with fun characters, terrible creatures, weird science and a kaiju brawl that still remains among the best the genre has ever produced.
…rewatch the classic Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster from 1964…
…the multi-headed dragon that first squared off against Godzilla in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster circa 1964…
Min Tanaka’s inspiration was not Takashi Shimura’s dignified Dr. Yamane from Godzilla (1954) but rather Dr. Shinzo Mifune (Akihiko Hirata) from Terror of Mechagodzilla.
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla to Terror of Mechagodzilla…
The body-horror aspect, which appears in the second act and becomes a staple in the third act, is reminiscent of Honda’s 1963 film Matango…
…the movie's seen favourable comparisons to The Dark Knight. The comparison is apt: Godzilla Minus Zero is more intense and ambitious than its predecessor.
…if this were a trilogy, Minus Zero feels a lot like its Dark Knight…
Christopher Nolan went “straight to the Joker” when he made The Dark Knight.
In 2023, Godzilla Minus One did more than take the kaiju back to the beginning.
Yamazaki had only 35 artisans on board for the equally thrilling fights in Godzilla Minus One, and here only really adds a handful…
Godzilla Minus One was a masterpiece, and I don’t say that lightly.
It is 1949, two years since the events of MINUS ONE wherein former kamikaze pilot Kôichi Shikishima (Ryûnosuke Kamiki) used his ace flying skills to win round one against Godzilla.
The story opens in 1949, two years after the events of “Godzilla Minus One,” with Japan still recovering from the havoc the world-famous kaiju left in its wake.
The follow-up to the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One had its world premiere over the weekend…
Having been old enough to see “Jurassic Park” when it was first released in theaters, it feels like deja vu what the team here has pulled off.
Jurassic Park introduced more dinosaurs, so much so that by the time we got to Rebirth, they were creating creatures that wouldn’t look out of place in a Toho feature, the idea had been stretched so thin.
…one of 2026’s recurring theme seems to be traumatised weather forecasters (see also Pressure, Disclosure Day)…
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[READ MORE: Our review of ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’, Hollywood’s MonsterVerse at its loudest and emptiest]…
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, as incoherent as it was, made more than a half-billion dollars worldwide…
It is far superior and more serious than Godzilla having a royal rumble with King Kong deep in the Earth’s crust, as seen in a recent Hollywood iteration.
While the action in those U.S. productions, notably Godzilla vs. Kong, can pack a visceral charge, the human element generally is forgettable and the mythology sketchy.
While Spider-Man: Brand New Day generated plenty of sparks and Dune 3 and Avengers: Doomsday are still to come…
The upcoming “Avengers Doomsday” and “Dune 3” better watch their backs.
…third if you go back to 2016’s modern reboot of Shin Godzilla from the directing team of Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi…
…as well as director Hideaki Anno’s 2016 “Shin Godzilla”…
…even the early 00’s “Shin Godzilla” has seen a reappraisal for being a complete takedown of woefully inept bureaucrats…
One scene plays out like something from The Dam Busters (1955), except that King Ghidorah is the target.
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Certainly, that’s been said of lots of “tentpoles’ from ROCKY to STAR WARS, and especially James Bond.
That’s the difference (among many) between Jaws and Jaws: The Revenge.