The film revolves around the life of a human soldier. It tells the story of a sleeping ancient giant monster being accidentally awakened by people. After waking up, the monster showed a powerful destructive ability, and its existence shocked the world. The film also emphasizes the direct impact of the atomic bomb on living things.
In 1954, the United States discovered the super destructive behemoth "Godzilla" awakened by nuclear weapons, and tried to destroy Godzilla with a nuclear bomb, but in the end it could only make Godzilla sleep deep in the Pacific Ocean. In the future, countries will jointly launch the so-called "Emperor Project" to study methods to completely eliminate monsters. In 1999, an earthquake occurred in a mining area in the Philippines. Ichiro Serizawa, a scholar who participated in the "Emperor Project", went to investigate and found the petrified egg sac of the worm-shaped monster " MUTO " in the sinkhole , and found only a hatched Muto Has escaped. In the same year, at a nuclear power plant in Japan, the wife of engineer Joe Brody was killed because of an earthquake of unknown cause that caused radiation to leak.
Fifteen years later, Joe Brody's son Ford, now a lieutenant in the United States Navy, specializes in bomb disposal and blasting. One day, Ford received a call from the Japanese side that his father was arrested for trespassing in the control area of an abandoned nuclear power plant and needed his relatives to go to bail. It turns out that Joe has been obsessed with tracing the truth about radiation leaks for 15 years. For this reason, he has gradually estranged from Ford, who tried to forget the pain of losing his mother. His wife, Ally, encouraged Ford to go to Japan to repair the relationship between his father and son.
After releasing his father on bail, Ford, persuaded by Joe, the two went to the abandoned nuclear power plant control area to find evidence and relics, but they found that there was no radiation pollution.
Joe and Ford successfully found the evidence, but were arrested by soldiers on their way home and escorted to a base hidden behind the ruins of the nuclear power plant. And this base is the research site of the "Emperor Project", studying a Muto's pupa and trying to trap it. The leader Serizawa learned that Joe was an engineer at a nuclear power plant. Hearing about the conversation between Joe and the security guards and the information found from him, he found that the cause of the accident at the nuclear power plant that he and Joe suspected was the same reason, and that he made a living by absorbing nuclear radiation. Caused by the monster Muto.
Muto in the pupa has always had signs of periodic communication with the outside world, but I don't know what the role is. However, at this time, the frequency of Muto's emission became more and more frequent, Serizawa had no choice but to activate the power grid, intending to kill Muto, but failed. Muto paralyzed the electronic equipment in the institute with electromagnetic pulses, and Joe and Ford also took advantage of this opportunity to escape smoothly. But at this time, Muto broke out of the cocoon and destroyed most of the research institute. In the chaos, Joe fell from a height and died on the way to the hospital. And Muto fluttered towards the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
The U.S. military, which discovered the monsters infested, has deployed defensive deployments around the Pacific Ocean. Serizawa told the military: With Mutto's destructive power, human weapons cannot contend with it. It just so happens that during the communication between Muto and the outside world, Godzilla's awakening response was also detected, Serizawa boldly inferred that humans need to use the power of Godzilla to destroy Muto. However, the commander of the US military expressed his disapproval for fear of harming the innocent.
After the death of his father, he learned about Ford, who he said was true. He was also worried that the monster would cause harm to his family. He contributed to the military and returned to the United States. Then the U.S. military followed Godzilla through Muto-ravaged Hawaii to Nevada by way of supervision and escort. It turned out that there was also a female Muto lurking in the interior of the United States, living on a nuclear waste dump near the casino. After communicating with the male Muto in Japan, he wants to rendezvous in San Francisco to achieve the purpose of breeding. Godzilla detected the communication between the Mutos and pursued them to maintain the balance of the natural world.
However, the US military intends to lure Motto with a nuclear bomb, and then lure Godzilla with Motto, intending to use the explosive power of a nuclear bomb to kill these three behemoths at the same time. Because Muto's electromagnetic pulse can paralyze electronic military weapons, the detonation device of the nuclear bomb was replaced by a traditional countdown device. When transporting the lure nuclear warhead by train, it was hijacked by the female Muto, and the last remaining nuclear bomb was snatched by the male Muto during the sea transportation and was given to the female Muto as a larva of Muto. Their food sources.
The nuclear bomb that was snatched by Mutto was not stopped because the countdown timer was not stopped, and it will detonate after only tens of minutes. In order to prevent the explosion, Ford and other soldiers were dropped from the air onto the battlefield, hoping to dismantle the nuclear bomb and prevent it from exploding. Power affects the lives of tens of thousands of people. Godzilla was fighting Muto in the city at this time. The US military found the nuclear bomb, but the countdown device was broken and could not be dismantled, so they had to take the nuclear bomb to a port one kilometer away. At this time Ford prepared to burn all Muto's eggs with the oil in the tanker truck. When the female Muto saw her baby burned to ashes, she angrily killed Ford. And Godzilla took advantage of this gap and shot two atomic breaths to hit the female Muto. The male Muto who flew to the rescue was killed by Godzilla on the building with a giant tail swing, but the impact was too strong and the building collapsed, making Godzilla himself buried in the building.
At this time, Emuto intends to ingest the internal radiation of the nuclear bomb that has been transported to the port and kill the resisting soldiers. When Ford took advantage of the fact that the female Muto was attracted by the other soldiers, he drove the ship with the nuclear bomb to the sea, but he was again targeted by the female Muto. Just as Ford raised his pistol to make the final resistance, Fymuto was shot by the reappearing Godzilla into the atom to breathe. The female Muto's neck was broken in the high temperature of the atomic breath, Godzilla threw the female Muto's head into the sea, screamed triumphantly toward the sky, and then slowly fell down. Ford, who was unconscious, was taken off the ship by the rescue team, and in the dimness he saw the nuclear bomb detonated overseas. Afterwards Ford reunited with his wife and children, but Godzilla who thought he was dead woke up again, roared at the sky, and returned to the sea again.
