Director Gareth Edwards had a very tall order delivering on a property whose last foray into Hollywood was the horrendous Matthew Broderick-starring debacle of 1998. In the end, this years attempt at making a proper Godzilla film was a bit of a mixed bag; it had a handful of scenes that end up being quite laughable, but there was an incredibly enjoyable showdown between man and beast(s) to balance things out. It takes a while for the titular character to actually appear on-screen but when things do finally kick off, its suitably glorious almost thanks to almost two hours of preamble beforehand. Godzilla delivers in the final confrontation in a way that no other monster movie has ever done purely based on spectacle. When Godzilla comes face to face with rival monsters, the MUTO's, he impales one of them, killing it, and unleashes his atomic breath down the throat of the other before beheading it and dropping its severed head like a microphone at a Kanye West concert.
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