Regie:
Gareth EdwardsKamera:
Seamus McGarveyMusik:
Alexandre DesplatBesetzung:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, Al Sapienza, Sally Hawkins, Brian Markinson (mehr)Streaming (7)
Inhalte(1)
Der in einem Atomkraftwerk beschäftigte Amerikaner Joe Brody hat bei einem nuklearen Zwischenfall vor 15 Jahren seine Frau Sandra verloren. Immer noch zweifelt er daran, dass ein Erdbeben auslösende Ursache gewesen sein soll. Als ihn sein Sohn Ford besucht, um ihn zur Heimkehr in die USA zu bewegen, überredet Joe ihn, noch einmal in die Todeszone vorzudringen. Dort erwarten sie zwei gigantische Monster, die von der Armee in Schach gehalten werden. Als diese ausbrechen, ist die ganze Welt in Gefahr. Der japanische Soldat Ichiro Serizawa kennt nur eine Rettung: Urzeitechse Godzilla! (ORF)
(mehr)Kritiken (23)
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a movie that you can talk about so much and so well. Judging by some of the reviews already, some are already enthralled by the creative team's pious reverence for the Japanese original (atomic breath!), others by the director's method of following the peripeteia of the giant monsters always from the position of an anonymous humanoid, others by the transformation of the central character into a giant monster who deserves our love but is never able to return it. I too must confess that when, at the end, the camera chased the sinking Gojiru, but did not go underwater with it again, I was moved by my smallness and insignificance compared to a creature so perfect and wise, who would no doubt never have known of my feelings for him and I would have pursued him to the ends of the earth. And I’m not into chubbies. Edwards fully lives up to what we expect from an aspiring indie director when someone injects 160 million into his veins. It's packed with auteurism and individual ideas. I liked the incorporation of crucial scenes from modern video games (fighter jets falling from the sky à la Modern Warfare 2, a submarine being blown up in the jungle with an insectoid creature in the background – Crysis, soldiers jumping out of a plane into the rising sun – Battlefield 2), I loved the religious rapture of the pidihumanoids towards something so vastly unreachable, I loved every entrance of the giant lizard onto the scene (flares), I was tense during the silent scene on the railroad bridge, I enjoyed the incredibly destructive picnic of the ancient creatures in San Francisco. No point then in addressing the total lack of logic or the unnecessary main human storyline right after Bryan Cranston jumps in. The movie should have been shot entirely from the perspective of random bystanders. Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins (for her, of course, as usual) were practically unwatchable. But these are minimal compromises compared to what the film offers. I can understand the lower rating – this movie really doesn't shine when you watch it on a bus with your cell phone.
()
I won't be uncritical to the point of not seeing flaws in this film, and there are quite a few when it comes to logic. However, this is still a movie rooted in kaiju films and essentially B-grade production, where the story is often secondary to the monsters themselves. I like that they are the main focus here because the human characters aren't worth it. I was hoping it would be somewhat like Japanese classics, and it actually fulfilled that for me. The American shots also contribute to it, but the monsters prevail, and that's simply beautiful. I was expecting a messy film, but I'm really happy with the outcome.
()
After watching this movie, I felt such peace of mind concerning a potential alien invasion. If all the armies, Avengers and Justice League fail, we still have Godzilla as backup, so there’s absolutely no doubt we would win the battle for the future of our world. Otherwise, as far as the movie is concerned, it's not a complete disaster and it has quite a good pace, but for me, there will only be one Godzilla.
()