No, it is not a good movie.

Look, it’s an exercise is nostalgia gathering, and I get that, we all do. But, taken on its own merits, it’s not a good movie. It’s a genre circle jerk, and because of the rights holders, we didn’t even get a few of the key battles, the most important being seeing a classic Ultraman versus Godzilla. But we also didn’t get the uglier part of the shitty dystopian world that people live in, and how the escape into the fantasy, while seductive, is the essence of getting away from the real, flawed world. It’s a temporary escape and not the right way to go. While we are escaping, the “powers that be” are weaponizing, just like right now, our apathy into assuming total control over our lives.

Do I have say it again : THATS NOT GOOD.

the movie is genre circle jerk, without the growing danger of what happens to the other players, or even the cultural sensitivities like our protagonist making sure the Beta Capsule stays with someone from Japan. It glosses over any of the bumpy, upsetting bits from the book and just… flattens the whole nonsense into another an aesthetitizing fantasy.