A widely understood trademark in contemporary monster films is that you don’t show off your creature in broad daylight. We’ve seen this phenomenon in Gareth Edwards’ lukewarm Godzilla and Guillermo del Toro’s kick-ass Pacific Rim (which, famously, never got a sequel ). In adherence to this unwritten rule, the latter vexes by cloaking its mechs and kaiju in darkness, adding to their cool factor by having their distinct silhouettes loom imposingly. The former frustrates with a feature-length tease, too gun-shy to actually show the big monsters fighting in all their glory without obscuring the gargantuan details. Rarely, whether in good or bad monster films, do filmmakers make the bold choice to reveal their creatures outright in broad daylight. Then again, not every filmmaker is

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