Reviews

A fairly good movie overall especially for an American made Godzilla movie. The three drawbacks to me were a poorly realized human story, all of the monster battles were either in the dark or obstructed view, and my biggest complaint was the extreme overuse of the Teal/Orange color filters. I realize the story was just an unfortunate reality and I've read the original cut was around three hours so maybe crucial parts of the story were left on the cutting room floor. The lighting and color filters were both intentional decisions. While I disliked the dark monster battles in the 2014 movie and didn't care for them in this one, the garishly bright color filters kept breaking immersion for me. I'll give an example, in one of the first scenes, a mother and daughter are talking in a kitchen, camera on mother, her skin is unnatural orange and so are the walls behind her, camera switches perspective to her daughter, her daughters face has a teal tint and the large window behind her is florescent teal and the entire movie continues on doing the same for literally every scene. I understand that the whole Teal/Orange color filter is a big thing with those fresh out of film school and I always find gimmicks like that annoying, but I've never seen it so over used or applied so brightly.

This movie had potential but failed miserably in execution, mainly for poor writing. This movie seems to be intended as a modern imitation of a couple movies from the 70s, namely Prime Time which was good and The Groove Tube which wasn't, however this film is much worse.

The filmmaker seems to have borrowed the format of the two films mentioned and updated the idea from TV to Apps (not very creative) and their use of "shock and offense" humor. The problem was only one segment was in any way humorous while the rest was simply painful to watch.

I gave this a 2 out of 10 simply for the one segment which couldn't save this lemon of a movie but moved it up from a 1 out of 10 (awful).