Si nous connaissons mieux en France les blockbusters américains Godzilla, il s'agit d'un des Godzilla produits et réalisé au Japon.
Le budget estimé est ici entre 8 à 15 fois moins que cousins américains, mais le films n'en souffre jamais bien que certains décors soient un peu étriqués.
Le film est à l'échelle d'un film japonais un grand succès public et il a reçu des critiques globalement positives.
Reste que le film est assez efficace, voire impressionnant vu son budget.
Il bénéficie d'un contexte que l'on connait mal avec son japon d'après-guerre. Cela dit, il me semble que le film est très aseptisé quand il aborde les questions militaires, de devoir, etc., notamment en évitant de parler des crimes de guerre.
After the disappointment of "Out of Sight", to-night, I'm watching "Plane". This is an action thriller starring Gerard Butler, as a pilot whose plane is hit by lighting, and has to make an emergency landing.
The character must've been written for Butler. When speaking to his character's daughter he asks her to prepare "homemade haggis, neeps and tatties".
Then, when asked by the co-pilot if he was English, he replies "Hell no. I wouldn't lower myself to that. I'm Scottish." 😃
The lighting is sort of interesting in this. Lots of gels. This beachside exterior is Fat Blue right now, with some warmer colors for the mid tones. Sort of reminds me of Argento's Suspiria and/or Inferno.
Not a fan of this one, but that's okay because Sunday is Chore Day for me, I'll roll this while I do laundry and such. The soundtrack is still pretty good.
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Jennifer Lopez trapped in the boot of a car with George Clooney turned out to be the highlight of the movie. After that scene the humour (it was billed as an action comedy) very much dried up. Too much time spent watching hoodlums driving around in cars.
Clooney and Lopez had some chemistry, but, it wasn't enough to hold my attention.