Colossal 2016

     Gloria has been without a job for a year.  She lives with her boyfriend Tim in New York.  Tim doesn’t mind that she isn’t working but he doesn’t like her drinking and staying out all night.  She comes back to their apartment drunk in the morning and then she lies about what she did.  He finally has had enough and he packs her bags.  She’s surprised to be sent ‘packing’ and she goes back to her hometown in upstate New York.  Her parents left her their house after they moved south for their retirement but it’s empty with no furnishings.  Gloria gets a job working as a waitress in a bar owned by Oscar.  They used to go to school together.  New reports begin on the news about a giant creature destroying Seoul, South Korea.  Gloria begins to think that she is somehow connected to this creature?

     OK, I think it is very far fetched for someone living on the East Coast of the United States to be connected to a creature in Seoul, South Korea??  Everything about this film seems as murky as the creatures?  The acting isn't very good even with good actors?  The plot doesn’t seem to mesh together either?  There are a LOT of unexplained why questions?  I didn’t think it was very interesting or believable?   2* (I didn’t like this movie)

109 min, Action directed by Nacho Vigalondo with Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson, Dan Stevens, Hannah Cheramy, Nathan Ellison, Sarah Surh, Haeun Hannah Cho, Carlos Joe Costa, Melissa Montgomery, Christine Lee, Rukiya Bernard, James Yi, Alyssa Dawson, Miho Suzuki, Charles Singh.

Note:  Imdb 6.2 out of 10, 80% audience 59% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*, Amazon 3.1* out of 5* with 250 reviews, Metacritic 70 out of 100 with 36 critics 6* out of 10* with 109 reviews, The Guardian 3* out of 5* review by Mark Kermode, Rollingstone 3.5* out of 5* review by Peter Travers, Empire Online 4* out of 5*.

Special Note:  Filmed in Seoul, South Korea; Vancouver, Langley, Fort Langley, Gastown, Harbour Green Park, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.  This film was hit by a lawsuit in May 2015.  The suit claimed there were too many similarities to Godzilla 2014?  Hathaway was in her second trimester of pregnancy during filming.