**possible minor spoilers**
While it was fantastic to see a Godzilla film in theaters, and I will always enjoy it it's still not very well made. Takeo Okawara has done worlds better in directing, frankly I'm not sure what he was getting at here. He gives us his used tired formula of a film in the most obvious way this time around, and in trying to give us a "new Godzilla, for a new millennium" he gives us the same anti-hero character of Godzilla we got in the heisei series, only his looks have changed. We have the Godzilla Prediction Network, a small network following Godzilla and seeing where he'll strike next to warn people, but at the same time not destroy Godzilla and find a way to contain and study him. However Crisis Control Agency aims to flat out destroy Godzilla without thinking twice. At the same time the CCI uncover a mysterious rock. (Which they immediately predict to be a vessel from space..uh-huh...) While the military attacks Godzilla the rock flies over to find suitable cells to become the supreme being on earth...well it chooses Godzilla! Eventually this UFO reveals that a giant alien is inside it, and the alien, now with Godzilla's cells, turns itself into 'Orga' a half alien half Godzilla...but to be a total Godzilla it he needs Godzilla's entire body. The result is a battle, that comes off as a notch cooler than the Heisei battles, and some cool surprises. Okawara has done much better, but he gives a few new things to enjoy including some of his best crafted characters. However the writing is so lackluster, the old "alien takes over earth" plot has been used in Godzilla too many times, it's death to do it again. At least the alien was unique this time in that humans had to figure out it's motives rather than be told. Godzilla 2000 is a fun, entertaining movie, but not a very good return and Okawara's last G movie being his worst. ** out of ****
While it was fantastic to see a Godzilla film in theaters, and I will always enjoy it it's still not very well made. Takeo Okawara has done worlds better in directing, frankly I'm not sure what he was getting at here. He gives us his used tired formula of a film in the most obvious way this time around, and in trying to give us a "new Godzilla, for a new millennium" he gives us the same anti-hero character of Godzilla we got in the heisei series, only his looks have changed. We have the Godzilla Prediction Network, a small network following Godzilla and seeing where he'll strike next to warn people, but at the same time not destroy Godzilla and find a way to contain and study him. However Crisis Control Agency aims to flat out destroy Godzilla without thinking twice. At the same time the CCI uncover a mysterious rock. (Which they immediately predict to be a vessel from space..uh-huh...) While the military attacks Godzilla the rock flies over to find suitable cells to become the supreme being on earth...well it chooses Godzilla! Eventually this UFO reveals that a giant alien is inside it, and the alien, now with Godzilla's cells, turns itself into 'Orga' a half alien half Godzilla...but to be a total Godzilla it he needs Godzilla's entire body. The result is a battle, that comes off as a notch cooler than the Heisei battles, and some cool surprises. Okawara has done much better, but he gives a few new things to enjoy including some of his best crafted characters. However the writing is so lackluster, the old "alien takes over earth" plot has been used in Godzilla too many times, it's death to do it again. At least the alien was unique this time in that humans had to figure out it's motives rather than be told. Godzilla 2000 is a fun, entertaining movie, but not a very good return and Okawara's last G movie being his worst. ** out of ****