Beast of a political drama
Ignore the giant, alien-looking kaiju on the film’s posters; Shin Gojira (known in English as Godzilla Resurgence), a remake of the iconic 1954 film, is very much a relatively grounded political drama, trading in the spectacular giant-monster battles we’ve grown to expect of modern kaiju films for a more deliberate exploration of real-world politics, where indecision, unilateral national agendas…