I get it…I get the subtext and so forth, BUT, personally I didn’t like it. The imagery of 911, the questions surrounding why, what, where, what for, the monster standing in as a metaphor worked in the original Godzilla. Like I said I get it for the “pointless attacks on American cities by faceless enemies” and the ground level experience of a giant monster movie makes sense. What doesn’t work is having no solution/answer/payoff even on some small human scale. The resolution of “everyone dies” is VERY difficult to pull off in a satisfying manner. It makes sense in a zombie movie because we at least can fathom the source of the horrific events.
Truth be told this is a personal reaction to a film that isn’t bad, just difficult for me to like. One reason is that I live in NY and my wife was in Manhattan when the towers fell and thousands of people died. I understand the terror aspect and the inability to contact a loved one in crisis so perhaps being so close to the event has jaded me to films about it. Not just this one but all the others as well.
This on the other hand…
