Godzilla 2000: Millennium

"Godzilla 2000 is a fairly unusual Godzilla movie in that there is a kaiju fight, but it's not the focus of the film. The fight only lasts a few minutes, but it has one of the best kaiju fight resolutions I've ever seen. The main focus of the film is on the conflict between different approaches to unknown and dangerous phenomena. Protagonist Shinoda wishes to research Godzilla for the potential benefit of mankind, while antagonist Katagiri wants only to destroy him. Shinoda's research, predictably, does bear fruit before the end of the film. The character development is pretty threadbare, characters basically being archerypes, but there are some neat plot beats and some thrilling moments even apart from Godzilla's rampages. There's also some humor, including some amusing slapstick, sprinkled in. New villain kaiju Orga is well conceived. The practical effects are good, but the CGI is bad enough that the film would have been better off without it. "