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Godzilla Vs Biollante movie review

GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE

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Original Title : Gojira Tai Biorante
Directed by Kazuki Omori
Year : 1989
Country : Japon
Length : 104 min
Rating : 4 / 10

SYNOPSIS

While Doctor Shiragami, a Japanese scientist set up in an Arabian country, works on the hybridising of the vegetal, a terrorist attack destroys his laboratory and his daughter gets killed. Back in Japan, in his new lab, he mixes some Godzilla hybrid cells and creates Biollante.

REVIEW

Second episode of the second season of Godzilla and direct sequel to "GODZILLA 85", "GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE" is a piece of Kazuki Omori, a doctor more or less converted to cinema, who would, two years later, direct another episode of the series, "GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH", and who would also write the scenario of "GODZILLA VS. DESTROYAH" in 1995. If this episode was meant to boost the saga thanks to a brand new vegetal monster, its box-office ranking didn't follow this tendency...
"GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE" takes back the keys of success of the well-known Kaiju Eiga exploiting once again the fear of the nuclear, this time added to the dangers of genetic experiments, through the creation of an hybrid monster make by Godzilla cells and flowers particles... The result is hardly convincing, because even if Biollante's aspect goes from ridicule-like to almost terrifying (the gigantic rose transforms into an awful monster with roots / tentacles with sharp teeth as the film goes by), its part in the movie sums up to too rare scenes in which nothing really happens except for one or two fight scenes of an average rhythm with the radioactive lizard. If the first half of an hour of the movie reminds of "JAYCE AND THE CONQUERORS OF LIGHT" and its plant monsters, the super 2X vessel seems to be inspired by the "STAR WARS" saga, in particular because of the soundtrack associated with the passages where it's put in the scenes...
Concerning the casting, we can notice the participation of Tôru Minegishi as lieutenant Gondo, who embodied the Mafioso and tyrannical father in "FUDOH" by Takashi Miike, but also and above all Megumi Odaka, who would play the part of a teenager with telepathic powers in five of the episode that would follow.
About the special effects, we're shown the big thing! If in this sequel our atomic monster had completely lost its friendly aspect, it seems really moved by bad intentions and destroys mercilessly all that stands on its way. The scenes become more realistic-like than in the previous ones with obvious settings.

An original monster and spectacular FX which weren't enough to counterbalance this unskilled mix of styles, where biotechnology, spies and huge monsters get together, where there no real plot, just moral which can be summed up by a line by Dr Shiragami at the end of the movie: "The real monster is neither Godzilla nor Biollante, but the man who created them"...
Note from : 4 on 10
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