GODZILLA  (From WIKIPEDIA)

 

In 1954, the United States military is assembled to witness the secret Castle Bravo nuclear test. A hydrogen bomb, decorated with a monster insignia, is detonated when a giant creature emerges from the ocean. In 1999, Project Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham investigate a colossal skeleton in a collapsed mine in the Philippines. They find two egg-shaped pods; one is broken open, and whatever hatched has made a trail through the forest to the sea. In Japan, the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant experiences unusual seismic activity. Joe Brody, the plant's supervisor, sends his wife Sandra and a team of technicians into the reactor to check the sensors. While the team is inside, the reactor is breached, releasing radioactive steam. Sandra and her team cannot escape and the plant collapses into ruin.

Fifteen years later, Joe's son Ford is a US Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer, living in San Francisco with his wife Elle and son Sam. When Joe is arrested for trespassing in the Janjira quarantine zone, Ford returns to Japan. Convinced that the government covered up the true cause of the disaster, Joe convinces Ford to accompany him to their old home inside the zone to retrieve vital seismic data he recorded. They find the zone is not contaminated, but after recovering the data, soldiers appear and detain them in a secret facility within the plant's ruins. Inside, a giant winged creature emerges from a massive chrysalis and escapes, destroying the facility. Joe is injured and later dies. The incident is reported as an earthquake.

Serizawa, Graham and Ford join a US Navy task force led by Admiral William Stentz on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga to search for the creature, dubbed "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism," or "MUTO." To Ford, the scientists reveal how a 1954 deep sea expedition triggered the appearance of Godzilla, a prehistoric alpha predator; how early nuclear tests were really attempts to kill it; that Project Monarch was formed secretly to study Godzilla; and that the MUTO caused the Janjira destruction. Ford reveals that Joe had monitored echolocation signals that indicated the MUTO was communicating with something.

The MUTO is found feeding off the wreckage of a Russian nuclear submarine it deposited in a forest in Hawaii. The military attacks and the battle shifts to Honolulu airport where Ford is waiting for a flight home. Godzilla arrives, causing a tsunami that devastates Waikiki. After briefly fighting Godzilla, the MUTO flies away, and Honolulu is left in ruin. Meanwhile, at a Nevada nuclear waste facility, the second MUTO from the colossal skeleton in the Philipines, which is larger than the first, and wingless, emerges and devastates Las Vegas. The scientists conclude that the second MUTO is female, the two were communicating and will meet to breed.

The task force follows Godzilla, projecting that the monsters will meet in San Francisco Bay. Stenz approves a plan to use a nuclear explosion to kill all three monsters, but does so over the scientists' objections. Ford returns with the military to California and joins a team delivering the warheads to San Francisco by train. The train is destroyed by the female MUTO, who devours one of the warheads. The remaining warhead is airlifted to San Francisco and made ready to detonate. It is taken by the MUTOs who want to use its' radiation to feed their unhatched young, so they construct a nest around it in the downtown area.

The military fails to stop Godzilla when it arrives at the Golden Gate Bridge. In fact, he saves several people on the bridge by deflecting a stray missle. Finally accepting advice from Serizawa, Stenz orders his troops to pull back and allow the monsters to fight. While Godzilla battles both MUTOs, a team of soldiers, including Ford, enter the city by HALO jump to find and disarm the warhead. Discovering that the warhead cannot be disarmed, they put it on a boat for disposal at sea. Ford incinerates the nest, causing the female to leave the battle to check on her nest of young. Godzilla then uses its tail to kill the male MUTO, crushing it against a building. The female MUTO finds and kills the team on the boat, but before she can kill Ford, Godzilla grabs her by the neck and kills her using his atomic breath, shooting a blast into her mouth. With the fight over, Godzilla collapses from injury and exhaustion. Ford pilots the boat out to sea, and is rescued by a helicopter before the warhead detonates.

The next day, Ford is reunited with his family. From the ruins of the city, Godzilla, thought to be dead, awakens and returns to the ocean, as the survivors cheer for him.