Godzilla (1998):   FINALLY, an American-made Godzilla film.  Sounds cool, right?  Wrong.  I was very excited about the prospect of an American-produced Godzilla movie until I saw it.  I did not mind at all that they changed Godzilla's appearance.  Quite drastically, really.  But it's a sign of the times.  That look worked better for the computer-generated special effects.  Plus they're starting a whole new thing here, and not continuing off of events in the Japanese films.  It started off great, intelligent even.  Then soon enough it became typical Hollywood schtick.  Here's a hint folks:  If you want an exciting movie that you can take seriously, do NOT put Matthew Broderick in it.  He's alright in a few movies (my favorite of his is "Good Boy", where he plays the voice of a dog).  But where this movie really went wrong is that it did too much with the people and not enough with Godzilla.  Instead of making a good Godzilla movie, the filmmakers just wanted to pimp every popular Hollywood personality they could find.  Was there really a need to show off that many famous people in this movie?  And they really did stretch out the Godzilla chase scenes.  After awhile, I just got bored with it.  Nothing different ever happened.  I got tired of hearing Godzilla's noises as he chased after the car all the time.  The story just never went anywhere.  Godzilla trashed a lot of stuff and it took them some time to stop him, but it didn't need to be a two-hour plus movie.  It could've been around 90 minutes.  For as long as this movie was, they should've put in another monster, more action, something.  Overall review:  This movie is not terrible, it's just not as good as it should have been.  I do hope another American attempt will be made, though.  I think Godzilla needs to redeem himself.  We could do better.