2018 · animation · sci-fi · monster
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Directed by Kobun Shizuno, Hiroyuki Seshita1h 41m2018
Humanity's desperate battle to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla continues. The key to defeating the King of the Monsters may be Mechagodzilla, a robotic weapon thought to have been lost nearly 20,000 years ago.
Our read: Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive animation · sci-fi · monster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
- epic-stakes
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