Shin Godzilla was a quintessential Japanese movie.
95% of the movie was people in meetings, in various settings such as different desks, tables, chairs, sofas, arranged in different ways, in different offices, conference rooms, etc. At first one shot would include multiple people talking. By the end of the movie each shot was one talking head closeup, then quickly moved to the next head. I got dizzy after the movie. There would also be one person telling another person some possibly important information, then the second person relaying the same information to the third person, IN THE SAME ROOM AT THE SAME TABLE, three heads away! The third person could hear the first person clearly, but in Japan, lower rank was not allowed to talk to high rank directly. So they set up another office called "the rebels" so no ranks in this office. I didn't understand this "the rebels" office because all they did was folding origami. And also this "rebels office" still had to report to someone higher rank than them 🤦
5% was about Godzilla. In the beginning the baby Godzilla was someone's sock puppet with googly eyes glued on. Finally the baby Godzilla grew up to adult Godzilla and destroyed Tokyo. That was really cool scene. Then Godzilla just stood there. Even when the talking heads attacked Godzilla, it barely moved and just let humans attacked it. Did the production company run out of budget?
For a movie set in 2016, the technology was bad, the dialogues were bad, the plot was bad. They even tried to explain "God" in Godzilla in English because foreigners thought it was God. But in Japanese, it was simply GOjira 🤦
For a better Godzilla movie, watch Godzilla Minus One.
It took me awhile to recognize Yutaka Takenouchi; he was my no. 2 Japanese actor. In this movie his lips were kind of droopy, and his hair didn't look as nice as before. Getting old...