Godzilla

Godzilla (1998)

  • 26% of critics liked it
    (62 reviews)

  • 38% of users liked it
    (277,316 ratings)

Dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and sequels, the Devlin/Emmerich interpretation displays a redesign of Godzilla, now a large lizard mutated after fallout from French nuclear tests. A blinding flash of white light fills the Eastern sky. Thousands of miles… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 38 min.
Directed By
Roland Emmerich
Written By
Dean Devlin
Genres
Action & Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
May 20, 1998 Wide
On DVD
Dec 26, 2000
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • James Plath, Movie Metropolis

    Broderick is like the proverbial deer in headlights . . . .

  • Nell Minow, Common Sense Media

    Updated classic is Jurassic Park with one monster.

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    A great lumbering beast that has no personality, has size but no power.

  • Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    This is the view from the end of the world -- we look on the smoking ruin of Manhattan and shrug and eat our popcorn.

  • Jeffrey Overstreet, Looking Closer

    Godzilla ... is so poorly written and so un-original that it makes Independence Day sound like Shakespeare.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Film C


    Godzilla is an average horror, action movie and although i found it very entertaining just as a light hearted not to serious movie, it is just an average movie and nothing special about it. It is action packed and enjoyable movie to watch on a rainiy day but thats about it!

  • Phil H


    Hmmm very dodgy US update of the classic Tokyo destroying lizard. Its a rip of so many ideas, and the little baby zillas make it even worse, almost 'Jurassic Park-ish' crossed with 'Aliens'. The look is good, the effects being quite decent for the time, its all cgi… More

  • AJ V


    A very American, and modernized retelling/remake of Godzilla. Although it's yet another film in the Godzilla series, which has way too many versions as it is, the cast makes it worth watching, they're really good. I really liked this movie.

  • Directors C


    The only film Roland Emerrich had directed that I enjoyed up until now was The Day after Tommorow. Which wasn't that great anyway. Godzilla is far from perfect but better than DAT. The typical aggresiveness of CGI in most of his movies like Independence Day and 10000 BC are so… More

  • Christopher H


    When I was a kid, I loved the Godzilla movies. There is something about watching model cities getting destroyed that is so awesome. I also loved watching Godzilla movies for the cool looking monsters and the classic monster rumbles. So when I heard that an American adaptation was… More

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