I don't mind Godzilla, King of the Monsters that much, but it is not as good as the Japanese version. It's a good film and a solid, 50s B-movie, but it's more on the level of something like Them or The Giant Behemoth and once one has gone Gojira, there is little going back I think (at least for me). Clear films (Japanese version) are better than vague ones (King of the Monsters).

It was a very smart business move, however. Only 10 years prior to 1954 Americans were sitting in their theaters watching Know Your Enemy: Japan and the military recruiting offices had posters hanging on the wall like "stay on the job until every stinkin' Jap is DEAD!". Just as the Japanese all vividly remembered Hiroshima and ducking in their basements as Allied bombers flew by, the Americans remembered the footage of the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March pretty damn well, so toning down the anti-war and anti-nuke element and tossing in Raymond Burr as a burly American everybody could relate to was a very wise decision. And it worked. If it hadn't, Godzilla probably wouldn't have even been as popular in Japan and the series wouldn't have half as many entries.