A ★★★★★ review of Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Seriously, aside from the earlier Toho Kaiju efforts this is the real deal and the template for Legendary’s Godzilla:King of the Monsters. Great direction, terrific story and action make this a compelling watch. My only complaint is that in this movie , as in other Showa films, the Japanese military has such bad aim. Loads of ordnance are fired but none seem to hit their target.  It is set in 1999 and takes a page from 2001: A Space Odyssey - which came out a year earlier - in terms of the ease of futuristic situations such as videophones from