![]() It's "explosive, heart-pumping stuff", steeped in "Godzilla" film "lore" and despite its small budget, it does ample justice "to one of movie history's most iconic monsters". Clever and highly "entertaining", the film has a "wonderfully realised period setting", and "characters you can root for", said Nick Clark in the Evening Standard. It's "flat-out thrilling", and provides "one of the most fun experiences I've had at the cinema this year". Made for just £12m – peanuts for a blockbuster demanding "this level of CGI" – "Godzilla Minus One" is "the kind of smart, emotional crowd-pleaser that Hollywood stopped being good at some time ago", said Christina Newland in The i Paper. ![]() Yamazaki "masterfully tightens and loosens the emotional screws throughout" as he crafts a powerful story about ordinary people pulling together to "defeat an inexplicable force of destruction". Godzilla, it transpires, had long been lurking in the Pacific Rim, but has been mutated and enlarged by American nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. He forms a "makeshift family of sorts" with a young woman who has adopted an orphaned baby but their fragile life together is imperilled when a giant reptile pitches up and starts stomping through the ruined city. During the War, Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) had humiliated himself by abandoning a kamikaze mission now, he returns to Tokyo to find his parents dead, and his home city "smashed to smithereens" by Allied firebombing. The action takes place in a postwar Japan still recovering from the atom bomb attacks. "There are bazillions of Godzilla films out there," but this latest addition to the pile, directed by the respected Japanese filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, "is one of the very best", said Leslie Felperin in The Guardian. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
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