Godzilla Minus Zero is a perfect sequel. It’s big, thrilling, gorgeous, and makes an excellent companion to its Oscar-winning predecessor. The story pays off everything left open by that previous film while also amping up the action, adding new characters, digging deeper into the originals, and ultimately leaving its world with more places to go, if it so chooses. The 2023 original is probably slightly superior, but this is pretty damn close.
Once again written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus Zero is set two years after the events of Godzilla Minus One. As Japan is finally getting back to normal after both a World War and a Godzilla attack, a new threat emerges. Godzilla is believed to be gone, but another giant monster has arrived, and all your favorite characters come together to try to solve the problem.
That includes former kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), his now-wife Noriko (Minami Hamabe), friend and weapons engineer Kenji Noda (Hidetaka Yoshioka), as well as new characters like scientist and Hiroshima survivor Kanji (Min Tanaka) and genius meteorologist Makoto (Masami Nagasawa). Plus, obviously, Godzilla comes back too. So they hatch a plan to save Japan not just from this new threat, but the old one as well.
There’s a lot more to the plot, but we won’t spoil it here. Mostly because this time around, the film is almost wholly driven by that plot more than anything else. In Godzilla Minus One, character was key, and almost all of it centered on Shikishima.
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