These movies were, in my opinion, quintessentially edgy as **** and not in a good way. Seriously if an angsty edgelord was to reincarnate in a movie series, it would look and feel like that. Maybe this is an effect of culture clash, but I have rarely seen a series of movie so "by the number" and so consistently trying to be deep and edgy, but only sounding twice more vapid.

The premise, while interesting was completly wasted by its execution. The idea of a bunch of human exploring a Earth that is no longer their own while trying to defeat a giant invicible monster would have been nice if the characters did any actual exploring and if they had the good grace of showing something worth looking at. Seriously, how can you make a mysterious and dangerous looking jungle look so bland. Ever thought about establishing the environment?

The biggest killer in this series are the characters, uniformally terrible. The main character is some sort of psychotic maniac who I would describe as "what if a male teenage hearthrobe had a brain transplant with Captain Ahab". He is an unbearable character who seem to be stuck between range-filled and moppy. He completely fails at feeling human or remotely sympathetic. It took him four hours or so to get killed in a stupid way and it was about 3 hours and a half too late. The female lead is absolutly terrible seem to display the level of confidence, the intellectual and emotional maturity of a 14 years old, let alone that of an adult woman and a trained soldier. If she didn't sounded like an absolute child it would have helped, but I suppose someone needed to let some place for their favorite kinks. I have hope that, one day, Japanese will finally create more then three or four bearable female character.

Godzilla feels immobile and small even he is supposed to be at its biggest. Every move seems to take him an eternity and his skin looks like rock with poor definition. Combat against him, which seems to last for hours, consist of people screaming at him, explosion while he just remain immobile and sometime makes a very slow roar animation. Speaking of roars, Godzilla roars less then the humans and seems less noisy and nobody gets any sort of power-up. I mean, if you are to scream and scowl like that all the time, I expect you to either explode in pure energy at some point or suffer from terrible constipation problems and in the end the immobility of Godzilla seems to no big problem as he can destroy thing without moving! Exciting!

The animation isn't terrible, tought people's body look stiff. Everything is grey washed and feels lifeless. It's sometime hard to tell one character from the other. The ship visual seems to be the most interesting thing in the series and those two alien races that are basicall human with fancier hair style and a few inches more are very poorly developped. The moment something seem to finally happen to them, they are gone. Earth's environment seems to be extremely poor, hesitating between wasteland and greyish jungle with no animals in it (or barely any). During the first episode, those wyvern creature causes all sort of problems and challenges, but seem to be completly gone afterward. We don't see any other monster beside them. Why?

The entire subplot of the twin girls and the humans seems useless since they bring nothing to the story except quasi nudity at some point and a completely useless damsel in distress that doesn't seem to get rescued on screen. Then again, if you remove the repeated shot of tanks and aircrafts shooting and people screaming and the overly long exposition. You could probably condense the material for those three movie in a single 2 hour long movie.

The entire series dialogue pass from terrible exposition, people screaming at a giant monster in an attempt to look badass in a very 1990's Predator movie style and finishes with a grandiose moment of pseudo nihilistic philosophy on the fact that thing dies, but it rambles on and on and on and on. I imagine I was supposed to care and be anxious about the fate of our hero's soul, but clearly, I was just waiting to see when the "power of love/friendship/having sex with the wierd twin probably minor girl/duty to humanity" was going to bring the hero to defeat the religious villain and save Earth (and Godzilla). The ending, in all its edgy vibe and philosophical monologue on death and destruction doesn't even rise to have the guts to actually end with the complete destruction of humanity by Godzilla. Then, maybe, they could have claimed to be one of those rare movie in which, at the end, all humans are dead because they were rage-filled monsters who cannot grow beyond their angst. Edgy enough to talk for hours about fate, civilisation and humanity dooming themselves and hopelesness, but not enough to actually break this little taboo.