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Godzilla (Godzilla, King of the Monsters)

Gojira (Godzilla)

1954

Ishirô Honda

Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Toranosuke Ogawa ...

6.4

2,759

Fantasy. Horror. Sci-Fi Note: The original movie is "Gojira", directed only by Inoshiro Honda and released in Japan in 1954. The american version is the same movie with additionat feature (new scenes) directed by Terry Morse with actor Raymond Burr. The american version's title is "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" and it was released in the States in 1956. Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk. At first the authorities think its ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Steven James Snyder Time	"It was easily one of the more peculiar cinematic experiences of my life (...) I found myself moved to tears — mourning for a doomed dino."	POS
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"Fifty years of sequels (...) have not blunted the sheer cinematographic force (...) of Ishirô Honda’s Godzilla. Rarely has the open wound of widespread devastation been transposed to celluloid with greater visceral impact (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich Time Out	"[It] comes off as a potent and provocative metaphor (...) Honda's satire is cutting, with several characters resigned to living with the threat of constant cataclysm."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Trout BBC	"A landmark in the history of filmmaking, and must be seen (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Martin Telegraph	"It was a sober allegory of a film with ambitions as large as its thrice-normal budget, designed to shock and horrify an adult audience."	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"This 'new' 'Gojira' is a revelation (...) because for once, and only once, the focus of a 'Godzilla' film isn’t all that much on Godzilla himself (...) but on the humans who encounter him (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"It remains a striking, timely evocation of cultural dread—real horrors made unreal, perhaps in a game attempt to process them."	POS
United Kingdom	Owen Williams Empire	"A clear anti-nuclear fable, the original film has a serious agenda"	POS

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