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For a movie with such massive stakes, there seems to be a remarkable lack of dialogue between countries. The U.S. is on its way to nuke Godzilla for what feels like four hours, so by the time a non-nuke solution stops the monster, the whole ending is a tentative sigh of relief. America, not Godzilla, is still out there, ready to nuke whatever it feels like, and most non-American countries have to find some way to prove that it's unnecessary. That's what makes the ending so goddamn powerful. Instead of a "Nukes are bad" mantra, we get Japan flexing its muscles back at the world. "Yeah, we can solve shit too. You don't need to handle our matters for us, because we got this."

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The court of Who We Gonna Lay Out Next is now in session.

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It's almost the cartoonish equivalent of that bully who would punch something and then say, "That's what I'd do to your face." Except it's not a bully. It's Japan, which been demilitarized for years after America blew fucking craters into it twice. And they do all of this at the expense of Godzilla, who in the span of the movie's running time, is reduced from a legend and unstoppable super monster to a huge, deadly science experiment. He is there to prove a point.

There is a lot of dumb, awesome monster movie in this awesome monster movie, but unlike most Godzilla films, which are usually remembered as "the one where he flew" or "the one where he fought a plant," this one will be remembered as "the one where he lost in a good way." He lost with Japan standing over him, lifting their middle finger to the sky. They can take Godzilla. They appreciate the "help," you nuke-happy bastards, but they don't need it.

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*drops mic, crushing most of Tokyo*

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