Godzilla

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Godzilla

PG-13

Released May 16, 2014

2h 3m

Sci-Fi

Action

Adventure

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Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe (Bryan Cranston). Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

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Critics Consensus

With just enough human drama to anchor the sweeping spectacle of giant monsters smashing everything in sight, Gareth Edwards' Godzilla satisfyingly restores the franchise's fire-breathing glory.

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David Sims

AV Club

Every time Edwards' Godzilla rears up, you stiffen with excitement. Every time he roars, Edwards wants you to feel it and wince.

Sep 22, 2016

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

'Godzilla' doesn't feel cynical; there's a sense of joy to the picture, of honest-to-God fun, which separates it from many of its summer movie brethren.

Jun 18, 2016

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Richard Lawson

Vanity Fair

This isn't a thinking man's Godzilla, exactly, but it's certainly clever where it counts.

Jan 5, 2015

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Amazingly, “Godzilla,” while actually having a trainwreck in it (two in fact), is not a complete trainwreck itself.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 14, 2024

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JD Duran

InSession Film

Godzilla isn’t a perfect film by any means, but it takes aspects of what we know about Godzilla and pieced it together in a way that felt real, intense and big.

Rated: A-

Aug 19, 2024

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Cory Woodroof

For the Win (USA Today)

It’s a stunner in every sense of the word.

Mar 28, 2024

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Maxime B

Every scene have their things that I can truly feel, Edward did a very great job in Godzilla. Even the scene where the people are in the city and they’re watching monsters, it’s very real because we have their point of view, so the monsters feel really big on screen. That’s one of the reason why it’s my favourite Godzilla movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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Audience Member

This movie gets too much slack for reasons I don't understand. The biggest thing I don't get about people's disliking of the movie is "Godzilla's screen time". Does it really matter that much? Giving the people screen time shows you how devastating something like this can be. I have some other things I'd like to say, but I'll add them later.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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Katie C

BY FAR the best Godzilla movie as of almost 2025. Best acting, best plot, best Godzilla, best effects.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/26/24

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Stephen H

So good. Great experience watching this in theaters. Brings back memories.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/25/24

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Wendel L

Direção: Ok Atuação: Bom Roteiro: Ok Caracterização: Ok Soundtrack: Ok

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/08/24

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Raymond The Godzilla Fan R

Definitely better than our (America) first shot at a Godzilla movie, but it's not the best. I like the serious tone, and the struggle to keep the kaiju a secret, but it seems really easy when Godzilla is barely in the movie, and when he is you can barely see him. But when you can, OH BOY IS IT COOL. Also the characters are forgettable besides Bryan Cranston, but he dies so soon.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/01/24

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Synopsis

Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe (Bryan Cranston). Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Director: Gareth Edwards
Producer: Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Brian Rogers
Screenwriter: Max Borenstein
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Disruption Entertainment, Legendary Pictures, Legendary Entertainment, Warner Bros.
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Seq. of Destruction|Creature Violence|Mayhem)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 16, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 26, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $200.7M
Runtime: 2h 3m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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