Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Matthew Broderick | ... | Dr. Niko Tatopoulos | |
Jean Reno | ... | Philippe Roaché | |
Maria Pitillo | ... | Audrey Timmonds | |
Hank Azaria | ... | Victor 'Animal' Palotti | |
Kevin Dunn | ... | Colonel Hicks | |
Michael Lerner | ... | Mayor Ebert | |
Harry Shearer | ... | Charles Caiman | |
Arabella Field | ... | Lucy Palotti | |
Vicki Lewis | ... | Dr. Elsie Chapman | |
Doug Savant | ... | Sergeant O'Neal | |
Malcolm Danare | ... | Dr. Mendel Craven | |
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Lorry Goldman | ... | Gene - Mayor's Aide |
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Christian Aubert | ... | Jean-Luc |
Philippe Bergeron | ... | Jean-Claude | |
Frank Bruynbroek | ... | Jean-Pierre |
In the wake of extensive nuclear testing in the South Pacific Ocean, the low-profile scientist, Niko Tatopoulos, is summoned by the U.S. Army to shed light on the mysterious attack on a fishing ship, and the ominous sightings of a gargantuan sea-dragon. Before long, a mutated scaly nightmare in the shape of Godzilla--a massive and all-powerful radioactive sauroid--threatens to level the rain-soaked New York City, against the backdrop of a crippling bureaucracy and the military's futile attempts to stop the invincible beast from the ocean. Now, it's up to Niko; the cryptic insurance agent, Philippe; the determined reporter, Audrey, and her brave cameraman, Victor, to put an end to Godzilla's reign of terror before it's too late. Is there a reason why Godzilla has chosen Manhattan for its den? Written by Nick Riganas
Greetings from Lithuania.
"Godzilla" (1998) is definitely not a bad guilty pleasure movie. It has pretty good special effects, nice pacing and some good action sequences involving Godzilla himself. Well its not entirely a Godzilla everyone knows, its more of a dinosaur but still its a good looking creature, especially when it interacts with environment (city buildings in this case). The downsides of this movie were pretty lame script at the moments, zero chemistry between Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitillo (and her poor performance as well) and just the look of this movie - literally almost all movie time action takes place at night, sure because its much more easier (and cheaper) to make all the big special effects sequences in a bloody dark, but not so much fun to watch it.
Overall, "Godzilla" is a guilty pleasure. As a pure fun flick it does its job, nothing else and nothing more. A pure guilty pleasure.