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Shinji HiguchiKäsikirjoitus:
Hideaki AnnoSävellys:
Shirō SagisuNäyttelijät:
Takumi Saitoh, 長澤まさみ, Daiki Arioka, Akari Hayami, 田中哲司, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kenjirō Tsuda, Kōji Yamamoto, 岩松了, Soko Wada, Kyūsaku Shimada, Tôru Masuoka (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
When Japan's SSSP kaiju defence taskforce finds itself in the midst of a particularly challenging kaiju encounter, a giant silver robot descends from the sky to rescue the country. Dubbed Ultraman, this robot’s identity and purpose are a mystery. As further alien forces arrive on earth, the taskforce, led by Kimio Tamura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), attempt to identify their true intentions. (Madman Entertainment)
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It continues in the style set by Shin Godzilla; that is, a procedural satire that can weave in the bureaucratic processes of government institutions as well as paying retro homage to classic kaiju battles. The first half hour actually could work as a direct sequel to that film, it has the same “viewer unfriendly” static overhead shots of people sitting at computers (one sentence shot from the floor, with a blurry office chair taking up most of the frame and only the top corner containing the object of interest, followed by a cut to the next sentence to a shot as if under a monitor in front of a keyboard, etc.). In the second plane, kaiju battles, with seemingly awful CGI effects, but following in the footsteps of the classics with models and costumed dudes. But from the end of the second Ultraman appearance onwards it goes downhill, unless you are a die-hard Ultraman fanboy. If, like me, you're not, it will turn into a childishly naive episode from the original Doctor Who about aliens playing with planet Earth, secret organizations, nature, governments; and it’s boring. In fact, if it wasn't for the opening half hour, it would be more likely that Higuchi is not up to the task without Anna. Thus the fault lies purely with the uninitiated viewer, who lacks the context for proper fan appreciation.
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