2016 · action · sci-fi · drama
Shin Godzilla
Directed by Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno2h 0m2016
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Our read: Shin Godzilla (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive action · sci-fi · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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“You want bureaucratic panic and collective problem-solving when kaiju chaos hits Tokyo.”
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