Spoilers obviously

!kino this movie is absolutely phenomenal and goes far beyond the typical godzilla movie

Godzilla isn't on screen too much nor too little, he's impactful and memorable without overstaying his welcome, great shots of him brutally destroying cities and killing people

The main characters are empathetical and really make you care about them

I almost teared up at the end, it is powerful and emotional, particularly the part where the engineer forgives the main character for his earlier cowardice

Godzilla Minus One would very nearly be my favorite movie of all time IF

IF

it wasn't for the very very ending, the last five seconds of the movie fricking spoils the entire thing for me

(Last spoiler warning)

The movie made a huge deal about the main character's wife dying, and had to put in an enormous effort to bring her back, giving our movie a happy ending (a few minutes before this part the audience is preparing for a very sad ending). Why go to so much trouble to reveal your female protagonist isn't actually dead, why show that she's alive AND that the main character ejected his plane at the last second, why go to so much effort to transform a sad ending into a happy ending, just to reveal that she's alive but has super-cancer and is just gonna die soon anyway? What a fricking waste

Also Godzilla just immediately regenerating at the very end before it cuts to credits - I get that they have to set up for a sequel but everyone assumed there'd be a sequel anyway, but why not show that at the beginning of the sequel? Why not let this movie have a definite conclusion? By showing Godzilla regenerating at the end it a) undermines the enormous effort the main characters went through to kill him and b) leaves the movie on a cliffhanger and can't be enjoyed just on its own.

I'm frustrated because if you cut the last five seconds of the film: don't show the wife's black cancerous scar and don't show Godzilla regenerating, this would be my new favorite movie of all time. FRICK