Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Final Wars
PG-13 | 13 December 2005 (USA)
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Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

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CheerupSilver

Very Cool!!!

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Murphy Howard

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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Adeel Hail

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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Zandra

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Mind-Boggling

Final Wars often gets an unjustified amount of hate from a large portion of the Gfandom and for what? For being one hell of a fun time? Final Wars is not a movie your supposed to take seriously, your only supposed to have fun. Grab a beer and a joint or any personal preference of drug. Sit back and have a good time watching Godzilla beat the shit out of half his rogues gallery, stop an alien invasion and destroy an asteroid before it collides with earth! What more could you ask for from a Godzilla movie?

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O2D

This time around there is lots of action.Sadly, that action is all humans and not monsters.When the monsters do show up, nothing makes sense.Once again, aliens have come to Earth and have taken the form of humans.A plot that has been done to death in these movies.Of course when they die they revert to their true form, ugh.For some reason the Mothra twins are in this and they are still the same age they were 60 years ago, ugh.I will never understand why Mothra exists or how people can accept it as a monster.So anyway, the action is all Jackie Chan meets The Matrix and it's somehow boring and confusing at the same time.As usual this movie raises more questions than it answers.A guy calls Godzilla "she" and that answers the question I have had for so long.Does that mean it is actually Son Of Godzilla's mom?Who knows?So a planet is going to crash into Earth and here comes the lameness.Godzilla sees it coming and uses her "fire" breath to blow it up.Which brings up so many questions.How did she know it was a threat when it was so far away?How could she blow it up but she can't harm a moth?Why would she even want to save Earth?She has spent more than half a century trying to destroy earth and now she wants to save it?And once again they have one character who speaks English.What's the deal with that?And this guy dresses like he's in the Russian army but he runs a group of mutants.Mutants who have NO powers.What is the point of them being mutants if all they can do is rip-off The Matrix?While this is definitely the best Godzilla movie I have seen, it's still a bad movie.If you must watch Godzilla, this may be the movie to see.

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brando647

After having trudged through a handful of Godzilla movies and only really finding enjoyment in one (TOKYO S.O.S.), I think I've finally found what is safe to say my favorite: FINAL WARS. Based on the mixed critical and audiences reactions as compared to some of the other classics, I might be totally off-base and my opinion is probably skewed as I've only seen five or six movies in the franchise at this point. Regardless, this movie was more fun (despite its flaws) than any of the others I've seen. It was released on the 50th anniversary of the Godzilla franchise and, as I understand it, is touted as the last in the series. I assume this movie is just the same as any other with the word 'final' in the title and, if there haven't been more released yet, I'm sure we'll see more eventually (not including the 2014 American reimagining). The film opens with a battle against Godzilla in Antarctica where the military manages to trap him beneath a layer of rubble and ice. For a while, the world prospers as mankind has shifted its focus off of war and pollution. Everything's groovy until the world comes under attack from every major kaiju…at once! Anguirus is in Shanghai! Rodan's in New York City! The monster from that horrible 1998 GODZILLA film starring Matthew Broderick is in Sydney, Australia! But wait! A race of aliens from outer space (I hate how the film always feels the need to refer to it as 'outer' space…it sounds juvenile) known as the Xiliens have arrived to save us, and a new era of prosperity is upon us when they make quick work of the world's most dangerous monsters and offer to assist us in destroying a rogue planetoid on a collision course with Earth. It all sounds too perfect and the world welcomes the Xiliens with open arms, but there is something more sinister going on behind the scenes and mankind's survivors might need to awaken the world's most dangerous foe to save us: Godzilla.I'm not sure why reactions to FINAL WARS were so unimpressive. This movie fixed a lot of the problems I've had with the previous Godzilla movies I've watched. If I was going to complain about something, I suppose the most glaring offense is that the movie runs on a longer than necessary. At two hours, it overstays it's welcome by thirty minutes or so and my interest starts to struggle. It's never that the movie gets too boring (though it isn't to say it doesn't try) but it's just overwhelming. There is just so much going on and it rarely lets up from the action. FINAL WARS utilizes the common Godzilla movie trope of an extensive final battle, dominating half the film's running time. Where the other films just hammer you over the head with men in rubber suits duking it out for an uncomfortable amount of time, FINAL WARS is gracious enough to break it up a bit by ensuring that the humans in the film do more than stand aside helplessly watching the battle ensue. The humans in FINAL WARS aren't ready to settle with the sidelines; they're ready to kick some alien butt. In the future society of the movie, the humans have discovered a segment of their society with mutant capabilities and trained them in the art of battle, calling it M Organization. And the Earth Defense Force has created a series of battleships to help fend off monster attacks. While Godzilla does battle with an army of giant monsters, the humans, led by Captain Douglas Gordon (Don Frye, the film's token white man) and the mutant Shinichi Ozaki (Masahiro Matsuoka), bring the battle to Xiliens. As a result, we get a healthy dose of martial arts and stunt wirework to add some extra action flavor.I found a lot to like in GODZILLA: FINAL WARS and it'll be hard to rave about it all in the limited space I've got here, but I'll try and sum it all up. I loved the inclusion of the original GOJIRA theme in the film's opening; as the 50th anniversary film, it's a nice throwback to where it all began. I love the stereotypes the film embraces. To be clear, I'm not referring to stereotypes of the Japanese. I mean everyone else. In New York City, we see a pimp (complete with pink pimp-mobile) being harassed by a foul-mouthed cop while a drunken homeless man laughs at them both before Rodan arrives an obliterates them all. It was like a scene out of an 80's film, except FINAL WARS was released in 2004. We even get a slide whistle sound effect when the wind gusts from Rodan's wings knocks all their hats off. I loved that the crappy 1998 Godzilla (now known as Zilla) has an appearance as a fully-CG monster terrorizing Australia before the real Godzilla arrives and defeats him in less than thirty seconds. I really liked that the filmmakers used CG to enhance a lot of the monsters, giving them a wider range of movement than a rubber suit would generally allow. And I love that the movie introduced me to a wide range of monsters I've never encountered before. For example, King Caesar…what the--? No idea what he is, but now I'm going to have to watch GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA to see more.GODZILLA: FINAL WARS is far from perfect, but I doubt I'll find a giant monster film that will be as fun as this. I never cared much to follow these movies and only started watching some of them to get some context before going to see the 2014 Gareth Edwards film and because my daughter fell in love with the monster after watching some battle clips on YouTube. After a string of disappointments (with the exception of TOKYO S.O.S.), I was excited to find a Godzilla movie that I wouldn't mind watching again or recommending to others.

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leeisfreee

laughed so hard, me and my mates checked this movie out got completely blazed up (couple of nug nugs in dat bong) and laughed all the way through. yo dat evil guy has the funniest laugh lol! be sure to check out the English dubbed version, it makes it extra-funny!it had so many plots going at one point i thought my brain was gonna pop, real talk.on a serious not though, dat stank we puffed wus guud, i mean REAL good. all i did was laugh for 2 hours straight and we didn't even put it in a cake or anything. if you ever get the chance make sure to blaze up before hand cuz dang son.i give it 5 dank out of 420

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