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Great film, but given how much I liked Gareth Edwards' MONSTERS I had no doubt it would be good. It's a slow build and slow burn of a film, sort of how JAWS and ALIEN worked in the 70s. All the stories of "not enough Godzilla"...naysayers- there is lots of Godzilla, but this comes from people who expect something "special effecty" in every frame of the film. Not a flawless film, and it was studio-edited meaning Edwards' cut of the film is actually 15 minutes longer including a scene cameo with Akira Takarada from the very first original Godzilla film,resulting in odd pacing here and there but on the whole, not a big problem. I suspect this cut material will show up in a director's version or deleted scenes on the disk. The film never tries to make anyone forget the original 1954 Godzilla(which critics in 1956 complained "not enough Godzilla" in that one, to give you some perspective). The film less tries to re-capture the funerary feel of the original and more gives us something of the 1960s and even 70s Godzilla films to call back to. Worth your time. Godzilla looks terrific too like a great samurai warrior which also bears in well with the story...