If I'm being honest, most war movies strike me as different flavors of the same played-out, pro-military propaganda. Every so often, I'm pleasantly surprised by an outlier (looking at you, "Hacksaw Ridge"), but not once have the credits rolled and I've walked away with a new all-time favorite movie. Until "Godzilla Minus One," that is.
Because yes, "Godzilla Minus One" is a war movie. More specifically, it's about the atomic bomb, the lasting terror and trauma inspired in the only country to date to experience its full destructive might, and, most importantly, the dauntless, all-too-human spark of hope that survives in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
