Kaiju films are obviously filled with devastation, to the point where seeing people fleeing for their lives as buildings collapse around them is par for the course, but here Anno has done something special, his focus on the government workers responding to the shifting, ever worsening fallout has the tension of the Fukushima reactor meltdown that it clearly inspired it, a meeting of natural disaster and man made folly. As you watch it, it feels like a film of disastrous…
