I think I teared up about half a dozen times, I was so happy with this film. I clapped. I silently cheered in the early morning as I watched this on HBOMax.
They did something that the other two Godzilla films didn’t do, and that was show, not tell. There was exposition, but a lot of stuff that they could have had in long, wordy scenes, they didn’t. Hell, there was a line that more or less jokingly addressed that.
The monsters fought. That’s all I ask for. They fought. And they fought well.
The people scenes were less than before, probably why the movie came in at a tad under 2 hours in length.
None of the humans were in the movie long enough to be annoying, even the ones who would have been under other circumstances.
Every character had an appropriate resolution by the end of the film. Heh.
The movie is definitely in my top 10 Godzilla films, maybe even my top 5.
It ranks just below Kong: Skull Island in my Monarch/Monsterverse list.