10 Recent Movies So Good You Overlook Huge Flaws

Godzilla Minus One is a glorious monster movie that felt like an antidote to many of Hollywood's recent monster movies, namely the increasingly dire MonsterVerse franchise.

Minus One has got amazing special effects (on a comparatively small budget, no less), it's got stellar thrills, it's got rich historical detail, and it finds a way to include a heartfelt emotional story amidst all the action. This is how you do a great monster movie, although, judging by the wretched Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, those making the American Godzilla flicks haven't taken any notes. 

There's just one element that felt like something out of those lesser American pictures: Minus One contains a jarring fake-out death. Protagonist Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) appears to lose his love interest Noriko (Minami Hamabe) in one of Godzilla's attacks, only for it to later turn out that she did in fact survive after all. They reunite in the hospital after Godzilla's defeat. 

Given that we never saw Noriko's body, this was a foreseeable twist, and it would've been satisfying had she just stayed dead. Revealing her at the end was a total cop-out that retrospectively undermines the picture's story, and this felt like nothing more than a cheap trick to make Koichi more determined to destroy Godzilla. 

Still, the rest of the movie is great enough that this small detail is easy to forgive. Furthermore, the ending hints that she's been infected by Godzilla's radiation, so perhaps the upcoming sequel will make this part of the story feel more earned.