I avoided Godzilla Minus One for a bit but then it turned up on Netflix so my wife and I watched it and frankly – we loved it.

Godzilla Minus One is the archetype of a classic Japanese Godzilla movie from the creator studio Toho no less. The film is everything you would want and expect from a classic Godzilla movie plus a poignant story that speaks of love in condlict, loss, sacrifice and wartime abuses of a people by their government.

Most importantly Godzilla Minus One perfectly captures what Godzilla has always been – a metaphor for nuclear  annihilation and war,

Personally I would call this the perfect Godzilla movie. Most of the modern portrayals of the monster have lost their depth and meaning. Godzilla Minus One is a brilliant effort to bring the monster back to his origins and remind us of the primary point of science fiction and fantasy in the first place – to provie us with a mirror of ourselves of and society.

It also doesn’t hurt that the film’s reported budget was $15 million (paltry by today’s movie standards) and has earned more than $115 million globally since its release.