Godzilla

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Godzilla

PG-13

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

09/22/2016

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

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

06/18/2016

'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.

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Richard Lawson

Vanity Fair

01/05/2015

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

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

10/14/2024

3/5

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

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JD Duran

InSession Film

08/19/2024

A-

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.

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Wael Khairy

The Cinephile Fix

10/08/2023

Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla is a beast of a film, and while it does brush its thick tail close to greatness, it is not without its flaws.

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Nicholas T

@nicktalbert2025 7h

godzilla is the best movie imax sound

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Dax R

@RT23422366 4d

It was pretty good than in the 1950s

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marvel chad M

@chadtalbert585 Jun 29

godzilla is the best movie ever good sound imax great buy this movie or 4k or blue ray

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Rocko D

@RT04837595 Jun 17

Dont listen to the under-stimulated marvel fans who need action every 30 seconds or they lose focus and start scrolling TikTok. This is an intelligently executed and efficient monster movie that pays it's respects to the titular figure.

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Ethan W

@FilmLover2012 Jun 8

Not the worst, but not the best.

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Mitch S

@SwagoDiego2k Jun 2

I think this has been said a lot, but it's true. Godzilla is the name of the movie and that big ole sun of a gun barely appears in the movie. But you have an outstanding performance by Brian Cranston who absolutely tanks the first part of the movie. He hoisted it up on his back and did a lot of the work sadly though, he dies pretty early. And we get left with the son Ford, AKA Aaron Taylor Johnson. Now I did like him enough and as an actor in general I enjoy him. But his character did just kinda stumble into plot occurrence after plot occurrence. And that's sort of how the plot works, Ford just goes to A to B and the end goal is always different yet playing to the singular goal of getting to his wife. Some questionable and not very smart choices are made by a few characters but overall the action and kaiju scenes were really cool. Well put together. Sad the main man took a bat seat kind of but still a good film. I recommend it!

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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: Legendary Entertainment, Warner Bros., Disruption Entertainment, Legendary Pictures
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