Directed by Roland Emmerich
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Sony)
Bloated Roland Emmerich nonsense is a rehash of every monster and sci fi movie that came before it. Godzilla makes his way from French Polynesia, where he has mutated from a lizard due to French atomic bomb testing, to New York City, where he/she nests in Madison Square Garden. Matthew Broderick is miscast as a scientist who is never wrong, Maria Pitillo is his lightweight girlfriend with aspirations to be a news reporter and Jean Reno leads a French military unit who wants to make amends by killing the creature. There is one ending just shy of two hours that probably would have worked, but then it goes on for another 30 minutes with a ludicrous chase across the city in a taxi cab. The escape from Godzilla's mouth has to be on the most jaw-droppingly dumb scenes ever in an action film. Michael Lerner as "Mayor Ebert" and his sidekick are an obvious nod to critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, apparently in revenge for their negative reviews of previous Emmerich movies.
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