Fresh
As far as Godzilla movies go, this one is-just as Toho promised-a smashing return to form.
Katie Rife, AV Club
Shin Godzilla
A god incarnate. A city doomed.
2016 · 2h · PG-13 Action, Horror, Science Fiction
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Hiroki Hasegawa as Rando Yaguchi : Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Yutaka Takenouchi as Hideki Akasaka : Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
- Satomi Ishihara as Kayoko Ann Patterson : US special envoy
- Kengo Kora as Yusuke Shimura : Secretary of Rando
- Satoru Matsuo as Syuichi Izumi : Policy Research Council Vice Chairman
- Mikako Ichikawa as Hiromi Ogashira : Ministry of the Environment Nature
- Issey Takahashi as Ryu Yasuda : Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Research / Promotion Bureau Director
- Kanji Tsuda as Fumiya Mori : Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare / Research and Development Division Director
- Shinya Tsukamoto as Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor
- Toru Nomaguchi as Tachikawa : Agency for Natural Resources and Energy / Electricity and Gas Industry Department Director
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The King Of The Monsters roars back to life in his weirdest movie to date.
David Ehrlich, indieWIRE
Fresh
Takes a more realistic, nuts-and-bolts approach to the eternal question: How do you solve a problem like Godzilla?
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
Fresh
Anno & Higuchi's vision of the character is thoughtful and clever without straying too far from the Godzilla formula established in films like the original 1954 Gojira.
Simon Abrams, RogerEbert.com
Rotten
Godzilla ... lumbers through Tokyo in a far less natural way than the days when an actor in a rubber suit stomped on models.
Edward Douglas, New York Daily News
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