W. Eric Myers

Mr. Tippet is a master of his craft and, as an author who also has a 30+ year labor of love, I really appreciated this film. All the reviews lauding the visuals and the ability to physically realize a twisted, God-forsaken landscape are all justified. My critique is how it almost achieves an obscure narrative but it got lost in tangents. We become the first assasin as we delve deeper and deeper into the world and witness all the horrors he brings us through. Then, when he gets caught, there is an inordinant amount of time digging through his guts. That scene grinded the adventure to a bloody halt until they pull out the baby. Fast forward to the next assasin, we're back adventuring through the hellish world for a moment before we abandon using him as our guide altogether. We then split between a tumored hermit and a plague witch with the constant cry of the baby. I had to turn the sound down as it was purely annoying. From there it seems to abandon any structure and ends with arthouse images for the sake of obscurity. Perhaps it is exactly as the creator intended. I simply feel with a little time trimmed off of certain vignettes and a more regimented resolution it could have been a big ol 5.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is THE perfect Godzilla movie that hearkens back to the fun of the 60's and 70's, but with less cheese and more monster melee action! This is a movie for true Godzilla fans, seriously. True fans are going to pick up on all the Easter eggs and nods to the movies and mythos of all the past Godzilla movies. The rest of the human herd aren't going to 'get' this one and that is why you'll read negative reviews. Go see it for yourself and weigh it against all the TRUE Japanese films and you'll see this is something special. One can tell they didn't have a committee of pretentious screen writers hoping to pen the next "Gone With the Wind." Instead, they threaded some implausible tech and characters into a story device that could get us from monster A to monster B. THANK GOD SOMEONE OUT THERE LISTENED TO FANS FOR ONCE!!! This was like Godzilla: All-Out Monsters Attack without the bad acting. Thank you Mr. Dougherty, sincerely, W. Eric Myers