Godzilla Minus One Review: The Perfect Blockbuster of 2023

The homage to Jaws scenes were thrilling

Godzilla Minus One is not only a GREAT Godzilla movie... It's a GREAT movie with Godzilla in it!!! Godzilla movies are usually "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride" type movies... especially the older ones (excluding the original).. This was an actual movie with a good plot and well written characters that you cared about.

Man, what an intense, serious film. I was totally invested and even shed tears for it. The war background shows the angst of the people as well as the pathos.

This is the movie I hope Hollywood looks at and goes that only cost 15 million? Not only a blockbuster, but Oscar worthy on top of that, for 15 million.

I have to agree with you. It's the best film for the year for me. Well written, excellently paced, emotionally engaging, exciting and tense-filled action.

Can't believe I'm saying this .. movie of the year .. and yes top 3 Godzilla movie all time so far

This can legitimately be considered the best film of the year.

Saw it in imax and will go see it in 4dx this week. Best film of the year.

If you want a movie of how post war japan rebuilt and thrived, then you need to watch the director’s trilogy of Always Sunset on third street films. They are amazing stories of human strength and compassion. Also they are hilaruous.

Well, even after watching such a good film (or, most of those negative commenters never bother themselves to go out and pay for a film in the first place), it’s about time that the “Anti-everything“ cynical people started to crawl in the comment sections here and there from their dark mind pits. Scroll down/up you’ll see their infestation. The more Godzilla Minus One gets credit and applause, the harder they hate this great Kaiju/human drama whatsoever. Especially, internationally modest and shy Japanese people/creations/history are their longtime favourite targets. Now, the world is somewhat getting understanding about Japan and its culture more than ever, but those ill speakers’ mindset never change. To them, the world is immobile cold place once and forever. I know they have their own rights to speak ill of others (to look away from their unhappy feelings for a moment), but, I hate such anonymous haters (only in my mind, besides this time) and love great films like Minus One. Sorry for being off topic.

I JUST WATCHED GODZILLA MINUS ONE IN 4DX WITH MY DAUGHTER WHO HATES "WAR TIME MOVIES" AND EVEN SHE GAVE THE MOVIE A 9 OUT OF 10!! I THINK IT'S THE BEST MOVIE THIS YEAR AND ONE OF THE TOP 5 KAIJU FILMS OF ALL TIME!

I loved Godzilla, and the other monsters (Mothra is my fav) since I was a little girl. The main atomic blast scene is something I will always feel blessed and never forget seeing on the big screen. The music, the sound design, the suspense, the dread of the story and situation. I almost felt myself pass out about 4-5 times just from being so hyped up. I absolutely loved this movie, I couldn’t shut up about it during work. Its immediately become my #1 favorite movie without a doubt. :)

Godzilla Minus One is the best film I've seen this year, and is now my second favorite Godzilla movie of all time. Thanks for the excellent, in-depth review. Very intelligently done.

I loved all the old music cues that were throughout the film. I know I heard Mothras' theme.

I would love this to keep building momentum. I see it's beating all previous Japanese Godzilla sales by huge margins, but I'd love to see it continue to crush ticket sales... I'm seeing it in a few hours. Can't wait.

This movie is ' Best Years of Our Lives' meets 'Godzilla'. Take Godzilla out of it it is still a great movie.

I have a theory that the film is so popular here b/c casual US fans haven't seen an "evil" Godzilla since the original. Either way, happy it's doing so well.

When the music hit in the theater 🤌

Great movie.

15 million dollars won’t even cover the cost of two leading actors in Hollywood…. It’s not sustainable. Toho created a masterpiece and a model for Hollywood to learn something from.