Godzilla (2014)

60 years ago , when the gigantão Gojira gave his first roar in theaters , the world was very different . While the United States enriched with the results of the second world war , Japan was trying to recover from the effects of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . And seeing characters like Superman and Captain America by increasing success among the youth , was given to the director Ishiro Honda 's responsa on earth produce red sunset a character to match those western engomadinhos .



Mission accomplished . The first Godzilla was so successful , it did not take even two years to win a U.S. adaptation ( a dirty play that was to happen later with such a Power Rangers clones tokusatsus as Jaspion and Changeman ) .



But today things have changed .

Having cash one of the highest GDPs in the world , the Japanese already eat at McDonalds , I love Marvel and lend their largartão welcome to Hollywood . Since I had some time that there was not a big monster turns on Yankee soil , it was time to get back with him there.



Then entering the director Gareth Edwards ( Monsters of bacaninha ) and screenwriters Max Borenstein and Dave Callaham , responsible for making us forget that moneyed bullshit that Roland Emmerich got the late 90s .



With a studded cast of names like Bryan Cranston , Ken Watanabe , Elizabeth Olsen , Aaron Taylor - Johnson and Juliette Binoche , Edwards follows the playbook of success of The Walking Dead and puts the monsters and destruction as the background of the plot , focusing in the dramas of the characters . And therein lies the great problem of long .

Filled with clichés ( such as the number of zombies ) , the script Borenstein Callaham and can only be maintained during the initial 15 minutes , and thanks to the skill lady Binoche and Cranston , that even after showing potential as odd the legendary Walter White in Breaking Bad , is terribly underused here .

Insisting on the idea of ​​" revenge of nature " and false starts , the story is taken from point to point through characters that , on the one hand are quite uninteresting ( like the protagonists Ford and his wife , or the admiral played by David Strathairn ) , at least help the viewer to follow all the tension from the point of view of the population and not a worry in the center monstrões floating camera.



And seeing the creatures down here to impress. Clear that the competent special effects and art direction -evident , but nothing more than the chills sound design , responsible for filling our ears with various details of the scenes and a deafening scream from the famous big monster .



Without repeating one of the biggest mistakes of Emmerich 's Godzilla , Edwards leverages the natural enemies of the huge reptile to deliver one hell of a nerd delight : a sensational pounding of giant monsters in the middle of the city . These hours ( which includes such a scene of paratroopers ) that production is worth the ticket .



Applying an action scene here and there , the director insists too much on Shark effect , holding the most completely the appearance of the giants of history , but to no avail , what people want is to see the crash . And even with it coming just once in the final minutes of the projection, the feeling is that it was worth waiting to watch the final round.

















While not a great movie, this Godzilla at least entertains in a way and maybe, who knows a continuation producers learn from Pacific Rim to give up filmmaking head and focus on fun . At least when the subject is huge monsters thrashing in public.