646f9e108c An eccentric man living alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo periodically transforms into a 100-foot tall giant in order to defend Japan against similarly sized monsters. An eccentric man aged about 40 lives alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo. He periodically transforms into a giant, about 30 meters tall, and defends Japan by battling similarly sized monsters that turn up and destroy buildings. The giant and the monsters are computer-generated. It&#39;s weird that this movie is portrayeda comedy because this is actually a serious film for the most part. It&#39;s a mockumentary, but it&#39;s playedcompletely serious, not like Spinal Tap. The movie takes its premise very seriously. It&#39;s actually a pretty sad film, despite its comedic portrayal in the trailer. It&#39;s a very quiet film, almost introspective at times. It&#39;s an observance of Japanese culture and how they don&#39;t really like giant monsters anymore…but in this world, the giant monsters still exist. And Daisuke is unappreciatedsuch. Very cool film, but I didn&#39;t find it quiteuproariously hilariousit&#39;s portrayed. That&#39;s what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn&#39;t what I got. Not that that was a bad thing! I just didn&#39;t get what I was expecting at all.<br/><br/>All in all a good film. The ending is pretty ridiculous and it moves slowly at times, but it was a rather deep film, and when it tried to be funny, it definitely hit its mark. Strangely paced, unflinchingly crazy and brow-furrowingly confusing, this is a tough movie to get a handle on. It&#39;s pseudo-documentary in the same styleChristopher Guest, but with a less obvious comedic timing, more humble, unassuming characters and a hefty injection of pure, unabashed Japanese absurdity. The camera&#39;s focal point is Masaru, a soft spoken middle-aged loser with a going-nowhere life and zero self confidence, who nonchalantly moonlightsthe fifteen-story tall, nearly naked hero &quot;Big Japanese Man.&quot; Despite saving the city from a series of rampaging monsters, public interest in his work is waning and he&#39;s beginning to find it difficult to make ends meet. Excruciatingly slow at points, it has a few interesting things to say about the longevity of the superheroic profession and the notoriously fickle nature of public favor, but much of that is lost beneath the burden of such a painfully dull lead character. Its dry, bizarre sense of humor hits the mark more often than not, and the CGI fight scenes make for quite the spectacle, but this really didn&#39;t need to be halflongit is. Fans of the eccentricities of Japanese culture will have a ball with it, although they&#39;ll have to wade through some arid terrain to get to the good stuff. I&#39;m still trying to figure out what exactly happened in the last scene. The most impressive special effect here is Mr. Matsumoto's hilariously restrained performance, a tour de force of comedic concision in a movie bloated by increasingly surreal developments.
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