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Godzilla (1998) Rank 2 Reviews
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Nitrate Online (Eddie Cockrell)
Ivo's Filmrecensies (Ivo Jansch)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
The Flying Inkpot (Christine Phillips)
B-Movie Film Vault (Jordan Garren)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The Boston Phoenix
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The giant green lizard with the big feet and the bad breath comes to theaters today -- and lands with a thud.
``Godzilla'' -- the most hyped and anticipated picture of the summer season -- is an overblown action monstrosity with no surprises, no ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Boxoffice Magazine
NandoNext (John Zhu)
Chad Polenz (Chad Polenz)
DVD Clinic ("Sturdy")
A giant lizard makes its way to New York City and only the French and the worm guy can save the city from being overrun with more giant lizards. ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at DVD Clinic ("Sturdy")
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
The original "Godzilla," called "Gojira" in its native Japan, was to become famous as a parable and a barn door.
Released with tremendous success in Japan in 1954, it was the cheesiest of sci-fi/horror films -- a guy in a lizard suit tramples ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Flung cars. That's what the new GODZILLA does best. Flinging and slinging and stomping and chomping, as if the autos were so many, well, toys. Most of this titillating mayhem occurs at the end of the film, in the movie's sole memorable sequence, when ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
One group of people wants to study Godzilla and the CCI (Crisis Control Intelligence) desires to destroy him. The director of the CCI wants to make a name for himself with a scientific experiment in the ocean to generate energy at a very low cost. The ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
"Been there, seen that" was my main reaction after the conclusion of this film. This kind of picture may have been incredibly inventive and original a few years back (think JURASSIC PARK (7/10)), but now it's nothing more than a rehashed carnival of ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Images (Gary Johnson)
His claws are capable of ripping through the steel hulls of ships. His fiery breath scatters cars in his path. His huge jaws can crush cars whole. This is one mean hombre, right? But even with a notorious scene stealer such as Godzilla on hand ("It's ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Images (Gary Johnson)
Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
If only one could fast-forward past the idiot characters to the parts where the creature nests in Madison Square Garden, crushes Fifth Avenue and chomps a taxicab. ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
A series of nuclear explosions in the South Pacific creates a titanic lizard-monster that's born pregnant that destroys Manhattan. With over 200 eggs laid, the human race faces extinction if a biologist, a couple of reporters, the French CIA, and the mili ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
filmcritic.com (James Brundage)
The sad thing about the cast of the new Godzilla is this: you can't put a name for the part of Godzilla. In lieu of such, I state that Godzilla stars Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, and a really big lizard.
Any ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at filmcritic.com (James Brundage)
DigitalVD.de (Sascha Baumann)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
Michael Dequina
_ID4_'s "human dimension" (which a lot of people actually bought into) is as profound as _Schindler's List_'s in comparison to what is on display in _Godzilla_or, rather, what _isn't_ on display. Our primary human guide throughout the giant lizard ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Michael Dequina
Steve Rhodes
From INDEPENDENCE DAY's creative team of director and cowriter Roland Emmerich and cowriter Dean Devlin, GODZILLA disappoints at almost every turn. As one of the few film critics who absolutely loved INDENDENCE DAY, I expected GODZILLA to be at least an ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Steve Rhodes
Serdar Yegulalp
The movie's opening credits are inventive, giving us lizard eggs that are witnesses to various nuclear tests. But it doesn't develop that kind of cleverness elsewhere: we get not one but two teams of trawlers dragged down into the ocean, in sequences ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Serdar Yegulalp
David Wilcock
Although Godzilla should be a non stop roller coaster ride, and at some points it is, there is something curiously uninvolving and unexciting about this movie. The main faults lie with the acting and writing, common problems with 'summer blockbuster' ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at David Wilcock
Ted Prigge
We get a little bit of this towards the end, when, in the last, oh, 30 minutes, the film takes off into a visceral, intense, and downright thrilling experience, thanks to a twist in the story where the four main protagonists find what has to be about a ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Ted Prigge
Jamahl Epsicokhan
Cast includes: Matthew Broderick (Dr. Niko Tatopoulos), Jean Reno (Philippe Roche), Maria Pitillo (Audrey Timmonds), Hank Azaria (Victor "Animal" Palotti), Kevin Dunn (Colonel Hicks), Michael Lerner (Mayor Ebert)Distributed by TriStar Pictures (USA) ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Jamahl Epsicokhan
Kevin Patterson
First off, there's the World's Most Incompetent Military Strike Force. These guys plow into New York City with lots of hightech weapons to fire at the lizard...and they MISS! Not once, not twice, they miss OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. They fire ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Kevin Patterson
Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies (Mr. Cranky)
At-A-Glance Film Reviews (--)
Dragan Antulov
The best thing in GODZILLA the special effects is in some way the film's undoing. Roland Emmerich and Dean Devilin, film's scriptwriters and producers, invested most of their energy and attention towards a single task make a screen monster that would ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Dragan Antulov
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Rain. Rain. Lots of rain. In fact, in almost every scene in this entire movie, it rains. Really wet rain. It actually gets depressing and tiresome after about an hour and it goes on for the entire movie. But, what everyone wants to know is what ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Call him Godzilla, The Reluctant Lizard. The makers of Independence Day have applied their unique sensibilities to reinventing everyone's favorite big, green, city-stomping reptile. You don't really expect much in the way of plot and/or character ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Godzilla is the ultimate culmination of the "who cares about plot" summer movie. A loose remake of the 1954 "classic" Japanese monster movie, Godzilla, King of the Monsters (which is itself pretty thin in the story department), Roland Emmerich and Dean De ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Many critics have trouble enjoying a 'popcorn' movie (ie. a film made purely for entertainment), which is why I hate being referred to as one because I love those kind of films. A great popcorn movie doesn't have to be well-constructed, all it has to ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
(1954 Japanese version)Regaled for 50 years by the stupendous idiocy of the American version of "Godzilla," audiences can now see the original Japanese version, which is equally idiotic, ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
CANNES, France--Going to see "Godzilla" at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. It's a rebuke to the faith that the building ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Ultimately, it doesn't really matter what I (or any other critic, for that matter) have to say about the
movie. TriStar has assumed that Godzilla, like all self-proclaimed summer event motion
pictures, is pretty much critic-proof. It ...read the complete Godzilla movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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