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Justin T This starts with quite good suspense and a surprising amount of gore for a kaiju movie. The first act very much reminded me of The Thing from Another World (1951). The middle section of the film is really dull and boring though. Even with the suspenseful opening it is still an incredibly slow first hour. When Rodan emerges around the hour marker it gets slightly more interesting but then quickly becomes boring again. So little actually happens in this film. What city smashing and kaiju action we have is a welcome break from the monotony but it’s really not enough and all the tanks firing gets repetitive quickly. If this had been 20 minutes I think it would have been quite good but at 1 hour and 22 minutes it feels very long and doesn’t hold your attention. The human story is boring and forgettable, the kaiju story is copied from Godzilla (1954), the ending is very disappointing and offers very little explanation. Some of the effects are laughable with the scale of the monsters changes between scenes. The day for night looks bad. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/05/24 Full Review Tim S Overwhelming too short, I think it’s a fine film because being my favorite kaiju Rodan the fire demon of course. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/16/24 Full Review josh d Very solid non-Godzilla Kaiju film. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/09/24 Full Review jrod 1 This is one of the most underrated monster movies of all time! It was overshadowed by Godzilla and understandably but it's a classic in it's own right. The first act is a horror story about miners being attacked by dragonfly larvae which is a prelude to the title characters(Rodan) story. I thought that was a clever idea. When it gets to Rodan you get an exiting areal dog fight with jets against Rodan. He has a good city rampage. Rodan probably has the most underrated monster cry of all time! It's up there with the Godzilla roar and the jp T-Rex roar in my opinion.If you like Godzilla and other giant monster movies your sure to like this! It a very original movie! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/01/24 Full Review Riley T it aint it. its rly dry and boring. the build up is rly good and got me engaged but thas it. it got real boring after that. the monster sucked ass and was not even cool and the dialogue was boring af. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/22/24 Full Review Daniel C. M Don't let the reviews fool you, this movie is in no way shape or form bad, it does get boring at the scene when the millitary is shooting Rodan, and the final scene where they are destroying the mountain due to how it drags for way too long, but still, it's a very solid Kaiju flick besides that. In my opinion this should go pair on pair with the original Godzilla from 1954 and watch both back to back. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/09/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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