The humanistic heroes of the first film return, and so does writer-director Takashi Yamazaki's awesome sense of monster action paintings in motion.
\n\nOf all the criticisms leveled at Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” (apart from the one I have: that the entire movie is a frigging mess), the most resonant, to me, was the complaint that Nolan had made a mistake by leaving the Greek gods out of the story. He certainly demonstrated that you could make a version of Homer minus the gods; he didn’t necessarily show that it could be done without losing a crucial dimension. Besides, if you can’t see gods at a movie of “The Odyssey,” where are you going to see them?
\n\nThe answer is: at a Japanese monster movie — more thrilling, by leagues, than “The Odyssey” — where the monsters possess an ominous majesty that’s not of this world, even as they’re in the middle of laying waste to it.
\n\nIn “Godzilla Minus Zero,” which premiered tonight at the New York Film Festival (it opens Nov. 6), there are two oversize mystic beasts: Godzilla, the original kaiju (the character is now 72 years old, proving that 72 is the new awesome), and King Ghidorah…
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