Review – Godzilla vs. Destroyer

Decades after Toho released the original Godzilla movie, he’s still mashing bad models and trashing bad guys. In fact, if anything the 1990s appear to have decreased the quality of the series. The characters and effects remain more or less the same, but the plot this time around borders on unfathomable. Our hero appears to be doing battle with Aliens-esque monsters that grow to mammoth size – or don’t; it’s sort of hard to tell what they’re doing. However many there are and whatever form they take, they either do or do not manage to kill Godzilla and/or his son (which, unlike the roly-poly offspring from the 1970s, looks a little more like a mini-version of his progenitor). In the end, Godzilla either does or does not experience an atomic meltdown, followed by some brief footage from the original, black and white version. There’s such a fine line between deliberate surrealism and plain, old-fashioned bad filmmaking. See if desperate