Review – Godzilla (1998)

This is the big budget Hollywood version we’re talking about here. All that money, and the original from way back when is still a whole bunch scarier. In fact, the most suspenseful moment in this new, high-tech Godzilla (the part where the baby Godzillas are chasing our intrepid heroes around Madison Square Garden) is ripped pretty directly from Jurassic Park. The plot is poor, the dialogue wooden and the acting lackluster at best, all of which would be just fine except that there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of effects to take the place of the other shortcomings. The computer stuff was okay and all, but it just didn’t carry the movie by itself. Maybe if this wasn’t such a bad rework of such a long cinema tradition I would have felt a little more charitable about it. See if desperate