If you’re looking for exiting action and a genuinely deep story you need to watch this

劇情普通，演技也不夠好，吐槽點太多

Very sincere in a few spots which made me think it might be very camp but then there are MCU-like jokes in the middle of what is supposed to be the devastating power of a gigantic tragedy. I felt a little bit lost trying (trying hard) to figure out what I'm supposed to be feeling scene to scene. The main character's arc, if extremely predictable, has its moments to shine, even though they almost ruin a very clever scene by immediately explaining it through a flashback. For me it was constantly building something up to later tear it down.

Finally a Godzilla movie that is not “Fast and furious” version of Godzilla or it’s treated as some superhero film like the recent below average American Monsterverse films.  This Japanese one is purely a story driven Godzilla film that has the most important thing that makes this more successful is HEART - Of course visual effects and some of the detailings in mission planning are stunning. Whatever the recent Godzilla films lacked, this did it masterfully. Character arc, striking the balance between a spectacle and emotional story plus keeping a monster as a monster finally, if you know what I mean. These things for sure made this the best Godzilla film ever for me (At least post 2000, if I recall properly).

Holds up on a rewatch.  Watched drive-in style with a projector in the backyard.  I’ve yet to watch this on a television.  I’m not even sure an 80 inch can show even of a glimmer of the magic the silver screen shows us

99/100 This is a Godzilla movie, but it isn't really about Godzilla, and I think that's why people liked it so much. Very much the same as "The Dark Knight" for superhero movies. And in many ways, this is in fact The Dark Knight of Godzilla. The characters are all fantastically written, and all to serve the theme at the core of this movie. Their central character trait is their view on life and its value, and how much they deserve their life. Koichi feels he doesn't deserve to live and that he should've died for the life of others and of his country, a sentiment echoed by mechanic Tachibana and his neighbour Sumiko at first, but throughout the course of the film, all of them (at different speeds) discover the true message of this film, hidden beneath the slow yet suspenseful drama and Kaiju attacks: everything worth dying for is also worth living for. This is helped along by an…