Up From The Depths Reviews | Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- A ragtag group of survivors have no choice but to team up with Godzilla to stop alien invaders from taking over planet Earth.
Released December 4, 2004
Producer: Shogo Tomiyama
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Screenplay: Ryuhei Kitamura and Isao Kiriyama from a story by Wataru Mimura and Shogo Tomiyama
Music: Keith Emerson, Nobuhiko Morino, and Daisuke Yano
Special Effects: Eiichi Asada
Starring:
Masahiro Matsuoka as Shinichi Ozaki
Rei Kikukawa as Miyuki Otonashi
Don Frye as Captain Douglas Gordon
Maki Mizuno as Anna Otonashi
Kazuki Kitamura as Xillian Controller
Kane Kosugi as Katsunori Kazama
Akira Takarada as Naotaro Daigo
Masakatsu Funaki as Commander Kumasaka
Kumi Mizuno as Akiko Namikawa
Kenji Sahara as Hachiro Jinguji
Masami Nagasawa and Chihiro Otsuka as the Shobijin
Masatō Ibu as the Xilien General
Godzilla portrayed by Tsutomu Kitagawa; King Caesar and Monster X portrayed by Motokuni Nakagawa; Rodan and Minilla portrayed by Naoko Kamio; Anguirus, Ebirah, and Kaiser Ghidorah portrayed by Toshihiro Ogura; Gigan and Hedorah portrayed by Kazuhiro Yoshida
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No matter what people say about this movie there are one thing that is commonly agreed on, that Gigan redesign is amazing!
this gigan is so fucking badass i fucking love it
@Deathla TM of course
I want him for the monsterverse
I kind of prefer the campy and colorful original a bit. This one has a design that just seems... edgelord.
But yeah, those chainsaw hands were beautiful, and if Gigan returns, those should as well.
Oh ya. Looks badass. I really like the Godzilla redesign as well
Getting drunk with my college roommates and watching Final Wars was a highlight of my Godzilla fandom.
This is the best movie to do that with.
*F*
U need to get drunk for Godzilla’s Revenge
When will kong get a upgrade? Like ssj
@@ScorpionStrike7 VERY drunk
So basically this movie is Destroy All Monsters meets Mission Impossible 2 meets The Matrix meets Independence Day. Sounds good to me!
Precisely. xD
I watched it, it was awful, unless maybe watched when drunk. It's practically a parody which tries to have dark climate, Godzilla moves like a ninja, the plot is just a rampage, and if it wasn't enough, it has Joseph Stalin commanding a giant flying drill!!!
With Godzilla the slasher villain
@@piotrmalewski8178 duh! Thats the point.
@@piotrmalewski8178 That's not Joseph Stalin - that's Mike Haggar from Final Fight!!!
Godzilla Final Wars is basically an 80’s action flick as a Godzilla movie.
And that’s why I love it.
Or, a Showa film choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping.
more of a 90s action flick with all of the latex and acrobatics
One of my favorite facts about Final Wars is that you can skip to any frame of the movie and it feels like you're watching a completely different movie
Godzilla final wars is such an underrated movie. It's Godzilla's 50th anniversary film that went all out, had 15 kaiju, had don fyre and his awesome one liners, and was made to be an awesome, good time. People who hate this movie were honestly expecting a masterpiece on par with the godfather and dont know what ''a good time" is. Godzilla final wars IS a good time. I give it a 7/10.
Underrated? lol.
@@squinteastwood4637 um yeah. Alot of people hate this one and I've always loved it.
@@SaurianStudios1207 It's a good time, but still complete garbage. My favorite Godzilla film, yet I still admit its countless faults.
give this movie an eye critic and its flaud, alot logical issues, story makes no sense, cgi is awful, characters are trash the motion is so bad, critic final score 1/10, As a Godzilla movie 7/10
@@miguelgcgamer9878 In the Gotengo vs the Xilien mothership scene CGI was TRASH, but still it's one of the most epic moments in the whole franchise, at least for me. It may be because this was the first Godzilla movie I ever watched... I know that Final Wars had countless mistakes and issues, but I still really like it.
I was in Japan when this released and it was such a big deal. The theater was packed and the audience was so pumped up...it was amazing.
I heard this movie flopped at the box office. Why?
@@HelloBoy145 I think the audience was just losing interest in Godzilla. Too many were being released at once
@@HelloBoy145 There was barely any scenes of kaijus. Too many scenes of humans having conflicts with another
@@expiredcoffee7991 And kids in Japan were more into Pokémon than Godzilla.
Fun fact: I met Don Frye at G-Fest last summer! He's such a nice guy!
WHAAAAAAAAAAA!?!?!?!?!?!
I did too
Lucky
He's probably nicer in person. All he talks about is stupid right wing politics on his Twitter.
I've never been a fan of the term "guilty pleasure", or "enjoy it ironically". Either you enjoy it or you don't.
Simply put, I just love the balls to the walls insanity of it.
I think those terms have their uses. It's not always black and white.
For me, a guilty pleasure film is a movie I know is bad, but I enjoy it regardless. My favorite guilty pleasure films are the first three transformers films. They're terrible, but I love them anyways.
@@averagejoe6617 Same… I grew up watching them. I even remember going to the Movies when the released… when that was still a thing.
This was a blast. Just turn off your brain and enjoy the show
Indeed. xD
Ah, that's not what I like about Godzilla though. Probably why I hate this film.
@@hellcatdave1What do you like about Godzilla? I like that we get movies that are more human plot based and that we get some that are just awesome monster fights. There's a Godzilla movie for every mood
@@MrPajamaShark I like the original idea behind godzilla, a warning against nuclear weapons.
@@hellcatdave1 Well since the third movie that point was certainly gone and was more or less turned into a Battel Blockbuster kind of thing. I like some of the more serious toned once, but overall i like it more if Godzilla fights Kaijus. This was with Godzilla vs Biollante and Tokyo SoS the first Godzilla movies i watched out of the series, when i was like 9 or 10. Yeah the movie had some serious gore, but for a kid otherwise it was very great.
Godzilla doing martial arts will still be one of the best moments in cinematic history
Final Wars is the quintessential Godzilla movie. You have X Aliens trying to take over the world, Mutant humans, psychic connections, super sci-fi human weapons, all the Kaiju, and all out destruction during awesome Kaiju brawls.
This is the movie I use to summarize the franchise.
This is my favorite Godzilla movie
Same
AND MY favorite Rodan intro: Rodan wrecking NYC is some of the best 'Uber Pterosaur action' I've seen.
Final wars and Shin godzilla was for me aswell.
It's a good film, but definitely not the best. The best is the first Godzilla
As a film it sucks, as a godzilla film its great
"Gigantic, sloppy, overblown mess" is exactly right. The movie relishes in being big, dumb fun.
"I knew that tuna-head wasn't up to much. Oh well, on to the next one."
I remember getting this on dvd when I was little and loved it, I think this is the movie that really got me into Godzilla in the first place
Same for me
I was so not a fan of this one when it first released. It wasn't so much a problem with the content itself (although I wasn't crazy about anime ninja people in a Godzilla movie), but the timing. We knew that this was going to be the final Godzilla before Toho did another hiatus, and who knew how long it would last this time? (as it turned out 12 years) In the face of such indefinite absence, I was hoping at the time the last Godzilla would be more serious, something closer to the original. Final Wars was obviously the opposite of that. So I didn't care for it one bit.
These days I love watching it. Everything about it is glorious. Gimme that ridiculous shit in my veins, man.
I'm pretty much on the exact same boat as you, man. Now that we have Shin, this movie is far more palpable to me and I watch it just like how I watch the 70's Showa movies. With good friends, good beer and good pizza!
I love how Godzilla’s fighting power is max in this film, we see most of all monsters in the franchise fight Godzilla again and get there shit beat in the process. Is it objectively good? Hell no but it’s still one of my favorites.
Normally, I'm sure I would have hated this film. However, the sheer amount of fun and energy they managed to squeeze into it, makes me love it so much.
This movie is totally insane and that’s why I love it
It's over the top but man it's epic.
"Final Wars is a blast"
As are these movie reviews! So glad I found this channel!
I love Final Wars, it may not have much substance but it is just pure unadulterated fun. It really feels like a 50th birthday celebration where everyone is just having fun.
Also I love how America is represented by Sum 41, it's so cheesy in all the right ways.
You're out of Godzilla flicks now, will you be reviewing the Rebirth of Mothra series next or possibly Gamera next?
“We’re all to Blame”
Yeah, I guess America is to blame for kinda ruining Godzilla in the late 90’s, lol. Japan has to revive him early because Tristar screwed up so badly.
He still has to do 2014 and the Anime trilogy, my guy! (Not shin tho, he already did a half-hour review on that a while back)
Devout Mothra Follower He reviewed 2014, and he’s been doing reviews of the Anime films recently. He’s already reviewed POTM.
@@Gojirawars03 Wait what!? When??? How???
RUclips subscriber feeeeeeeed!! Do your damn job!
Devout Mothra Follower He did them a while ago. Pretty sure he reviewed POTM back when it first came out.
Final Wars is pretty bad on any real critical look, but casually it's great. The movie is so batshit crazy that the quality doesn't matter
Well look at any Godzilla movies with a critical lenses and they all fall short of logic relatively quickly. I mean it's a movie about giant monsters fighting each other and that's why everyone likes it.
Critics: watch it while you're drunk
Audiences and fans: this is the best action packed Godzilla movie ever!!!!
Yes, this movie is great
@@totallyahuman.2955 the only ones that work under a critical lense are the first one and shin godzilla
Growing up as a godzilla fan was hard, no one else watched these films (they only knew the 98 film sadly) and thought of it as stupid and dumb, maybe it was but i loved it! The lore , the designs, the stories, I loved how ridiculous and fun the series was, with so many tv shows and movies taking themselves so seriously it was nice to have a series that went all out with its genre for so many films and to have so many memorable moments. Final Wars was the pinnacle and is probably my favorite, King of the Monsters I loved, it was pure fan service like Final Wars, it felt like the first american godzilla film structured like a toho film. I really appreciate your channel, Im so glad I found it and I hope this doesnt get buried in the comments (it probably will) but thanks
It's Showa era silliness with a modern budget. Completely ridiculous and I love it.
I wish megalon was in the movie, he’s my fav
True but it was cool to see the Smog Monster, Manda, King Cesar!
And jet jaguar but hey at least we saw jet jaguar in the new godzilla anime: singular point and megalon too!
@@cooldude-kd1se That JJ is kind of weird, but it was still cool.
@@majorpaiyne2124 yeah his design was weird but still cool!
I swear, Kazuki Kitamura as the Xillian Leader was the BEST part of this movie. His performance in this film was like the late Raoul Julia playing M. Bison in the 1994 Street Fighter movie: completely mesmerizing and entertaining to the point that you just didn't care about any of the film's flaws whenever he was on screen.
Godzilla 2004: unofficial tittle king of monster
Godzilla 2019: it official now
AURA the FOX yep exactly what I was thinking. Especially since those two are my favorite movies. King of the monsters coming first then final wars, then shin Gojira
What can i say, this film is candy. #KazukiKitamuraRules
My parents got me Godzilla Final Wars on Christmas of 2012, this film got me into the Godzilla Fandom I will never regret getting this film on that fateful Christmas
Final wars: the most expensive kaiju movie ever made
Godzilla king of the monsters: Hold my beer
My favorite Godzilla movie as a kid. I loved the theme song so much
Godzilla: Final Wars is one of my favorite Godzilla movie in the Millennium series. Godzilla is 100 meters tall and portray as Anti-hero in order to save the earth of his territory from other monsters expect Mothra. Minilla is back in the final Millennium series. Minilla is my least favorite Godzilla's adoptive son.
It's a shame this suit was never used again. It's easily one of my favorite designs of Godzilla.
This was my introduction to the Godzilla franchise, and my goodness what a way to get introduced to the King of the monsters.
Oh man, the movie that got me into Godzilla. I saw other Godzilla movies beforehand but this was the first one I saw from start to finish. Think seeing all the different Kaiju in one movie helped cement my love for the series as a whole.
The best line: "I thought I told you to get to the ship."
It's was a blast! This movie was amazing, so much fan services. So much Joy and happiness. So much DESTRUCTION! so much Rampage.
Finally, a good review on this movie that isn't just mindless hate. Great Video!
it doesnt make sense but this is and always has been my favorite godzilla film
I love how all the old characters from the showa series are back
This is probably my favorite Millenium film for how crazy and over the top it is, it's still legitimately entertaining even after so long
And this movie also singlehandedly raised Gigan to #2 in my list of favorite kaiju sorely because of his new design/abilities
I really like how you manage to find a silver lining in the truly ridiculous. Love your reviews, all of them. Almost as entertaining as an actual kiju film.
It was a fitting way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the franchise. Great to see the sea monster, Smog Monster, King Cesar too. Also fun to see the pathetic Zilla get stomped in a hurry.
The reason why Director Kitamura cast Don Frye as the lead actor, with Gary Goodridge and Ray Sefo in a cameo appearance, is that Kitamura loved MMA.
Also, this movie reminds me of the Energizer bunny commercial, “Nothing beats the King of the Monsters, Godzilla, it keeps going and going ... “🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can’t stop watching your videos they are amazing
YES FINALLY, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
All the Destruction!!!!
Excellent review. I remember sitting down to watching this with my family (I was the only Godzilla fan so I had more appreciation than they did lol) keep up the good work!
I love this film, even though it's overflowing with content it's the most fun of all the G movies. Gigan and Ghidorah reach new levels of epicness in this one, when I saw they chose this version of Gigan for the game I was ecstatic
Love the channel! I absolutely love Godzilla: Final Wars. One of my favorite Godzilla movies. Just so ridiculously over the top. This, along with 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and 2019's King of the Monsters are some of my favorite entries in the series.
I've been watching this channel for about a month now, this video finally won me over, I wish I could subscribe multiple times, you deserve more subscribers
Good to see your channels picking up man :) congrats on 3k!
I liked Tokyo S.O.S. so I’m confused how it performed at a record low
This was, and still is, my favorite Godzilla movie. The campiness combined with the frequent, quick, and brutal fights are so fun. With every monster in the franchise being brutally slaughtered once again like bugs by Godzilla, it shows how far he’s come as a character. The CGI has a certain charm to it. The over the top characters make it all the better. Gotta love it.
I love this channels name! I just had a talk with one of my teachers two days ago. I talked about wanting to see the new Godzilla movie, she said she’d never seen any of the movies but she saw the Saturday morning cartoon she then said “up from the depths, 30 stories high.” I said it along with her, I was such a Godzilla nut as a kid I got the dvd to the cartoon and I remembered the words. I love final wars, ironically it was my introduction to Godzilla even though it was the last movie at the time.
To quote a Cosmonaut Variety Hour review of Fast and Furious franchise: "logic is just screenwriting limitation". And I think the creators of Final Wars took this to heart. And I love this movie for it :)
The fast food burger analogy sums it up perfectly. Some times you just want a big, greasy, tasty whopper.
Is it quality? No.
Do I love it? Yes.
You know I met someone at g fest this year...
A very entertaining yet crazy movie. Totally agree. Oh and I especially loved how Zilla got wrecked while SR-71 plays in the background. lol
I've been waiting for this! One of my favorite Godzilla movies and was the second Godzilla movie I bought on DVD (Godzilla 1998 was my first Godzilla movie).
"Isn't that the monster the Americans thought was godzilla?" My favorite quote from the movie and and absolute burn to the American production.
“equivalent to a burger from your favorite fast food joint” absolutely, couldn’t have said it any better than that
Great work man.
Wow this is one of my favorite godzilla movies and I think it is kinda slow but the amount of monsters is amazing
This is Tied with Godzilla vs Destroyah as my favorite Godzilla movie
This and GMK are the crown jewel of the entire Godzilla franchise. Watch these two films back to back with some beers and you got yourself a good night.
"This is the last one...for real this time...we promise"
This was the first godzilla I saw in theatres and to this day is still my favorite suit, love it!
This is, by far, the most bombastic Godzilla film I’ve ever seen. I love it
This movie is absolutely insane and the song during Kazama's sacrifice is a perfect amalgamation of that.
I
Love
This
Movie
Plot and logic? Hell no.
There is one thing I love about final wars. Finally Goji is so unstopable that we get to watch him straight up beast mode EVERYONE
Ya know... for a movie running at two hours that was meant to be the last Godzilla movie for a decade as well as commemorating 50 years of Godzilla, there wasn’t much Godzilla until well over a hour into the plot. It’s different with G 2014 because a CGI Godzilla movie is tremendously expensive, millions more than the old traditional Toho way.
When it comes to my movie library I have this thing I like to call my Top Shelf. This is because it is in a cabinet separate from where I keep my other movies. The movies I put there are movies I could watch repeatedly all day and not get board. Final Wars is a part of that. With all the Godzilla movies I like though, well let's just say I need a bigger shelf. However, no matter what Final Wars will always be a part of my Top Shelf. How much did I like it? Take a gooooood look at my avatar
This may be one of my favorite movie ever made. It has everything i love combined in one movie
Zilla getting stomped by GODZILLA was the main reason I watched this movie and it did not disappoint. :D
Once Godzilla reaches it's *100th Anniversary* , Toho will create an ultimate series of Godzilla and other Kaiju movies called the *MEGAVERSE* (A combination of *all* of the Godzilla series including the *Monsterverse* )!!!!
This the most ridiculously over the top movie ever and I fucking love it.
I will always say this; I would rather watch an entertaining movie that's not very good or has it's flaws, over a slow, boring, slick looking movie that thinks it's smarter than what it is.
By 2004, what could they do? Re-make the original, or try and simply reboot another classic villain for the screen? Nah, just throw all the Godzilla tropes in a blender, add some western action movie influence (Works for John Woo and the Chinese action flicks, why not Japan?) and just go to town with it. This movie knows what it's doing, it's entertaining and celebrating 50 years of Godzilla and for 2 hours of your life, it's not that much to exchange.
One of Final Wars' missteps was the score by Keith Emerson. Years ago, a fan rescored much of the film with Akira Ifukube's themes and pieces from various movies, and it was glorious and so, so perfect.
trsniffy Like the whole movie?
I just watched this one last night. It was so damned fun and hilarious. Great entry into the franchise. Yeah, it's campy AF and the plot is so crazy, but that's what makes it a blast to watch.
Final Wars is proof that people don't know how to have fun anymore
This movie is a blast.
It dares you to think, but not in a good way.
Don’t think, just strap yourself to the Rollercoaster and laugh maniacally all the way through. It’s what I do.
Definitely in my top 5.
It’s absolutely bonkers
Godzilla, the most unstoppable enemy that humans had ever faced.
GIIIIIIIIGGAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!RISE!!!!!
As a 6 year old, this was my all time favorite Godzilla movie. Everything about it was so over the top (Which I could tell even then) that I loved it. I usually got tired out right by the final act and never actually remember watching the finale. I consider it a trainwreck of a movie, but so entertaining and fun that it is in my top 5.
I think the TriStar Godzilla was thrown in just to show how insignificant he is against the real Godzilla.
I love final wars edgy theme. It’s just perfect for this movie.
I just saw this movie for the first time two days ago. As some of you know ordering the DVDs or Blu-ray is about the only way we can get that some of the Japan movies now. I have watched everything HBO Max has to offer. The way you describe this movie at the beginning of the video is exactly how I felt and I loved it! This felt like Godzilla destroy all monsters meets Star Wars meets the matrix.
This is my second favorite Godzilla film.
Out of curiosity, what is your number 1?
I LOVE this film and see it as a Celebration...a party, if you will. After all, as an anniversary, time to celebrate, right? If I had to guess, that was probably the intent.
Anyone who thinks it's too frantic/energetic/wild, should realise Gojira is just a 'small' part of an entire tokusatsu genre...which often is exactly this frenetic/energetic/wild. Final Wars is more in line with the main tokusatsu genre IMHO (which is fine by me)
This is my favorite Godzilla movie of all time. While it has its weak points I loved every second of it. The suit was the one of the most intimidating Godzilla designs, with only Shin and the original beating it out. This is not a complex, thought provoking film in the slightest, but dang it, it was a fun experience from start to finish. 9.99/10
This one was also originally going to be a sequel to Destoroyah, following the grown-up Godzilla Jr. from the ending of that film. They even started building the models expecting Godzilla to be the same size as the Heisei era (100 meters tall) before Toho just decided to make it another stand-alone film.
Also, I wish they could have integrated Jet Jaguar in the movie. My idea was that he would have been built by the military (similar to Kiryu) and maybe even take down one of the weaker monsters like Ebirah or whatever, but then immediately get destroyed by Gigan (since they fought each other in the Showa era)
Still my favorite Goji flick.
Love it!
Final Wars was my reintroduction to Godzilla after the 1998 tri-star film rofl. This was the film that got me hyped for 2014 and made me go see the 1954 film + others along with Pacific rim.
For the most part I have to agree with you, although the last scene in which Minila and the boy get Godzilla and the humans to stop fighting is a personal favorite of mine.
This was the first Godzilla movie I ever saw and still love it
This is one of my top 5 Godzilla movies for sure!
One of my favorite godzilla movies
The legendary saga concludes here.
So this is what happens when a Godzilla film goes on a massive coke binge