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Finally had the chance to watch this movie as they had a great deal at Amazon for all three of the Gamera films of the 90's on Blu Ray for a very low price. I had always heard these three particular films rivaled the Godzilla films of the 90's and I have to say after watching this one I have to say this one was very good. It helped that it was not simply an origin story where Gamera tore through the city as scientist devised the Z plan and a kid named Kenny endangers his own lives and others. Instead this film pits Gamera against a familiar foe from the old series Gyaos, who incidentally was in my favorite Gamera movie of the early days as this foe was kind of cool then and is still cool now. What we have in the way of story there is a mysterious moving atoll in the Pacific, while on a secluded island and new form of giant bird is believed to be discovered. Well these giant birds are quite hungry and feast on the flesh of people or anything else they can swoop down and capture. They are large at first, but when Gamera surfaces he is deemed the threat as the bird monsters are dwarfed by this immense giant turtle. However, some think that the bird creature dubbed Gyaos are the real threat and that Gamera, the turtle, is trying to help as it hunts down the Gyaos creatures. Soon one of these bird like creatures grows to a size to rival Gamera and there is a very nice concluding fight. The visuals were pretty good, some have said the are better than most Godzilla films of the same era, I say they are on par in this one. I think they are at their best in the third and final act of this trilogy. I have the other two films and if this one is any indication it should end up being a very fine set of Japanese monster films.
score 8/10
Aaron1375 16 November 2011
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