If you loved Godzilla 1985, try The Return of Godzilla

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Koji Hashimoto, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Action / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Godzilla 1985, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Return of Godzilla is

Tokyo Bay. A wrecked fishing trawler. One terrified survivor. Godzilla returns, bigger and meaner. Bureaucrats scramble; cold war paranoia flares as two superpowers propose nuclear solutions. See it as a sober, FX-laden reboot for the post-Hiroshima age.

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