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Jun 17, 2019dennismmiller rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
For better or worse, Shin Godzilla is not a conventional Godzilla movie. If familiarity has made it impossible to be frightened by Godzilla, the filmmakers at least manage to make him strange and unsettling. More interesting is their decision to remove almost all of the human interest - there are no scientist-journalist love triangles or wayward dance marathon contestants, just bureaucrats and scientists working to limit an unprecedented disaster. Although this makes for a somewhat unengaging experience, it also opens up rich opportunities for satire and a surprisingly complex perspective on the past, present, and future of Japan.