Godzilla Minus One: Let’s firstly start by showing yall the trailer shall we?

Ohhhhhhhh boy howdy I’m excited to finally talk about this film, y’all are in for a treat with this one. So before we get too far into this review I need to get a few things out the way.

Firstly I wanna mention that I truly believe that this film is leaps better than that 2014 American Godzilla film, here’s the trailer for that if y’all don’t remember.

Secondly, I’ve never personally been a die-hard Godzilla fan so I came into this film completely open-minded without having any prior knowledge of any other Godzilla films, minus the American Godzilla films.

Thirdly I could not tell y’all my review of The new American Godzilla franchise with King Kong in it because I fell asleep during one of The films which was Godzilla King of The Monsters.

Really the only reason I wanted to go see that film was because of Millie Bobby Brown, but clearly that wasn’t enough to keep me interested. Because I fell asleep, I kid u not folks when I woke up the film was close to being done, I was like huh what did I miss?

After that I wasn’t a huge fan of Godzilla Vs Kong I found that boring, and I forgot there was another film after that so really I couldn’t give y’all my thoughts on that.

Also I know this has nothing to do with Godzilla but this clip right here is my favorite gag from a movie I’m yet to watch. It’s a clip from Austin Powers. Of the film making a Godzilla reference but since due to copyright laws they technically didn’t have him in the film.

“Run its Godzilla! It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws it is not, still we should run like it is Godzilla!”

Hahahahahahah

But today we’re not here to talk about that, we’re here to talk about Godzilla Minus One. Btw on a side note, I’ve forgotten the human characters names but that’s not important because what we come for is Godzilla.

But I still will mention the humans for a reason which will explain in a small bit, with that said out of every Godzilla we’ve gotten. This one by far is the most douchebagiest out of all of them.

I mean seriously, this guy basically walks up to buildings and is like hey u who u staring at me for? (smack building down).

This Godzilla would be the type of guy who’d look at a kid building a fort and say, hmmm that’s a nice fort. Damn, u and ur fort! (knocks it down).

BTW the reason why this film is called Minus One is because this film takes place in 1948 right after Japan got nuked and lost everything, in this film we see a small montage of them rebuilding society but then this giant douchebag lizard comes out of nowhere and takes them back from Minus One essentially to Minus Zero.

Is what I took away from this film, but the director is so vague with the title.

Side note this film only had the budget of $10 million dollars, and yet it blows away any modern Hollywood film that costs over $200 million.

For a $10 million budget film the CGI look outstanding, the monster itself looks realistic. So does the destruction.

Oh also this Godzilla might be the most thickest Godzilla we’ve ever gotten, this Godzilla has got thighs. I’ll put an image here to show y’all, btw this new Godzilla design is hands down my favorite out of every Godzilla.

Also, no shocker here but this design is leaps better than that 1998 American Godzilla design. U know that infamous design, the one that didn’t look at all like Godzilla, here I’ll share an image here in case y’all don’t know.

Also that Godzilla became so hated by everyone to the point that the director Toho brought the rights to this shitty American Godzilla or Zilla design just to use him in a film to kill off that Zilla by Godzilla’s hands. Enjoy the clip.

Dont care what anyone says, this is a masterpiece.

I just love how Godzilla got rid of Zilla that quickly as if he’s like b**ch u are definitely not me, now get out of the way! Lolo

Also I just love the lyrics of that song especially near the end of the clip while Zilla is being blown up “A DISAPPOINTMENT! A DISAPPOINTMENT! BORN IN THE LAND OF THE FREE!” To be fair that’s exactly where this shitty designed Godzilla came from.

Here’s a plot summary of the film, so after a Kamikaze soldier refuses to do that one single job during the war in 1948, so since he’s a failed Kamikaze pilot he now has PTSD, he returns to what’s left of his home and neighborhood.

Everything God bombed, he meets a random woman and a baby.

As Japan recovers and goes back to normal, or as normal as a destroyed neighborhood by nukes could get. All of a sudden this giant lizard creature comes to wreak havoc on them.

That’s all I’ll say for non-spoilers. Also this film is Japanese, so this film has subtitles. But also since this is on Netflix y’all can change the dialect to English if y’all want.

Also may I recommend watching the black and white version of this film, yeah there’s. A black and white version on Netflix.

Enough said, but with that out of the way let’s get the rating out of the way so we can discuss this film, overall I absolutely loved this film. Now would I say this film is perfect? Hell no.

It’s close to perfect, the only things that held it back for me are 2 elements.

1.  Some of the acting in this film becomes melodramatic, and keep in mind folks this film focuses more on the human characters and shows us their struggles.

2. For a film that feels completely grounded, like this is the most realistic version of a Godzilla story ue gonna get. For a story like that it still has an extremely dumb moment.

I won’t spoil it here or say who but all u need to know now is there’s a character who gets blasted away from the impact of Godzilla’s stomp and blast. And somehow survives all of that.

Which made me scream out loud bullshite, but I’ll get to that specific part in spoilers. So overall I’ll give Godzilla Minus One a solid 8.8/10.

Warning spoilers ahead y’all been warned.

So in this film, we start off with the failed Kamikaze pilot making an unplanned landing on a small island where he tells a group of engineers he’s here for repairment.

All of a sudden Godzilla comes out of nowhere and attacks them, the group tells the pilot to shoot the creature using the plane but he panics and freezes. So he doesn’t, which leads to all the men dying except for 1 engineer and the pilot.

So he returns home after being yelled at by that engineer, and he returns home to a destroyed city. Heck, his own neighbor doesn’t welcome him back they instead say this is ur fault.

Since u didn’t Kamikaze ur plane, thanks to people like u this all happened. Wow, what a dick thing to say, yeah yeah I know back then Kamikaze was seen as a noble thing and was highly respected but it’s still messed up.

Anyways a random woman who has a baby in her arms who’s not hers randomly shows up, they sorta somewhat become a family.

Kinda, anyways time goes by the child grows up into a child, and the Kamikaze pilot still has PTSD so he can’t and won’t commit to marrying the woman and making this official.

Heck, he refuses to let the girl child call him daddy, he’s so depressed and filled with guilt that he gets a job that might get him killed.

A job where he and a group of people go on a boat with a gun and shoot any remaining mines in the ocean, yep he’s truly left with guilt. He doesn’t care if he dies or not.

So anyways they encounter Godzilla in the water, he peaks his head out and swims towards them as they steer away from him, they try to shoot him and ir does nothing to him.

They try to use the mines on him and it does literally no damage, well it does do damage but he instantly heals up as if he’s the Wolverine.

There’s the full clip, btw this scene is suspenseful, the whole time Godzilla looks angry as all hell.

So now they return to the town and chaos soon happens when Godzilla enters the city and starts destroying buildings, no not on accident. On purpose, he just looks at these buildings and is like nah F those buildings.

Stomping on people and all that, also this film has the most scariest version of his heat beam. When he powers up his spikes on the back start flowing blue all the while his spikes starts extending out of his back.

Then he shoots his beam which does the damage of a nuclear explosion, yes that’s right his heat beam is the equivalent of a nuke. So after the Japanese suffered from nukes from America, they now have to go through it again but this time from a creature.

Oh remember how I said there’s a moment in this film that just defies all logic that will make u scream bullshit?

Well we’re finally here folks, so while the dust from the explosion starts pushing objects away including people. We got our failed Kamikaze pilot and his not wife there.

They try to go hide in an alleyway but the not wife gets swept away from the blast into the air, presumably should have died.

Don’t worry she doesn’t, spoilers at the end she’s in a hospital recovering, yeah sorry I’m gonna call bullshite.

Anyways so come to near the end of the second act, the folks in this town tey asking for help from the Japanese government and American government but they basically say nahhhhh can’t help u and won’t help u.

Gee thanks America, u nuked them and at the very least u could help, so the folks are now on their own so they have to come up with a solution to take down Godzilla.

So one of the failed Kamikaze pilots new friend who is somewhat of a scientist, comes up with a plan to take down Godzilla.

Or hopes it will, his plan essentially involves using mechanisms, boats and ropes to lower Godzilla deep into the water to drown him.

Now why would they think drowning him will kill him even though he came from the water, is beyond me.

Heck they ask random citizens if they are willing to help, that the risk is high and they are fairly certain that this plan will work, but no confirmation it will work.

Oh also the Kamikaze pilot is to ride a plane into battle and help out in case things go south, also guess who is their who’s working on a more modified plane for him? That same worker that he met on that island in the beginning.

Womp womp. He seems pissed at the pilot which is fair, btw this film tries to be quote on quote clever. We get a scene of him showing the pilot the buttons then he whispers in the guy’s ear and it pans away from him.

So the audience doesn’t hear what he’s saying, spoiler alert what the guy told the Kamikaze pilot is that he put an ejection seat so he could get out of the plane instead of killing himself.

Wow so clever, couldn’t have thought that by myself. Anyways so they head out on boats to go sink Godzilla!

The plan kinda doesn’t work, they try to sink him but the trap doesn’t work, so plan B. The Kamikaze pilot decides to fly his plane that is also filled with explosives, into Godzilla’s mouth.

He ejects himself out and the plane goes into Godzilla which blows him up from the inside and slowly.

He blows into chunks and sinks to the ocean floor, yayyyyyyyy Happy ending they defeated Godzilla!

Anyway before the film ends, the Kamikaze pilot and his adopted daughter get news that the not-wife has survived that explosion from earlier and is in the hospital.

Again I call bullshite on that, also the final shot in this film is of Godzilla in the ocean opening his eye and his chunks fussing back together again. Ok seriously is there no way to stop this Godzilla?

Anyways the end, I loved this film through and through I highly recommend watching the film. It’s on Netflix. Anyways hope y’all enjoyed this review and here’s a tease for my next review I’m working on, till then