[ShinGi]

So might as well post my spoiler free opinion of the movie. Loved it, might be my favorite Godzilla movie, though the movie is going to be very divisive. If 1954 was an answer to the atomic bombings, this is an answer to the Fukushima disaster.

Godzilla has about the same screen time as 2014 but the screen time is more spaced out ( so he appears in the beginning, middle and end). I liked all the human characters , except sadly for Satomi Ishiharas character. She is supposed to be a political rising star but the character just comes of as unrealistic compared to everybody else. Also her English is pretty bad, which wouldn't be problem if she weren't playing a second generation Asian American, it gets to a point that her co stars speak better English than her.

Now to the main star Big G himself. This is perhaps the most different incarnation of the character since 1998 . Practically everything is changed from his powers to his origin. I liked most of the changes personally. Shin is more comparable to an Angel from Evangelion than your standard Godzilla. The way he walks, the way he looks he isn't even supposed to look like a living breathing organism but rather something much worse. His atomic breath is the most powerful one yet in the franchise and the scene were he uses his breath for the first time might be my favorite one in the franchise. The movie ends on a very weird, Anno like ending which will definitely be discussed. Personally I though that it was a set up for the sequel.

The reactions in Japan have been great both critically and financially. The movie is already the highest grossing Godzilla movie at the Box Office, It might even gross more the 60 million dollars which is huge for a Japanese film.