REIGO: KING OF THE SEA MONSTERS (2005)
You know me. You know that I'm a kaiju nut. So please, PLEASE take these partially positive comments with a grain of salt. Reigo is not a good movie. In factoid, it's barely passable as a b-movie. The "plot" is threadbare, the special effects...fuck, I need to pause there. If you squint at other reviews, you'll notice cracks about Playstation cutscenes. Yeah, that's because the CGI in this ocean-set monster mash is baaaaaaaaad. It isn't limited to the creature(s) either; no, that would be humanitarian. The ships and explosions are also digital. You are probably waiting for those partially positive comments, but I really needed to belabor the stodgy, downright disreputable production values. Fuck.
See, this is how I know I'm a puerile, gorked manchild. I had (a modest amount of) fun with Reigo. Everything is rotten with the exception of the characters, and while it's true that the characters are very nearly rotten, they are agreeable enough to keep this miscreation afloat. I did want to see how it concluded. Speaking of which, I can't decide if the last 10 minutes are unspeakably awesome or vomit-inducing. How the hell do I even describe them? The picture shifts into kabuki mode after we learn that all of the main players die. Oh, spoiler alert.
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