Very disappointing. The trailer sold me a different movie.

Rating: 4/10 (18 May 2014)

A first tedious hour that adds nothing, with empty characters, zero interest, with topics and situations that lead to nothing. Come on, where is the relation between the boring family story and the theme of the film? Basics explained in any screenplay class!.
In the second hour comes the fight between monsters, but Edwards has a problem with the tone of the story and what is finally shown is not believable: that shoddy military stuff, the lack of large-scale of what is happening, the sometimes too calm reaction to those astonishing events. The director also seems to hesitate between subtlety and explicitness.
And the visuals were very disappointing, except two terrific moments: the parachute scene and the Godzilla roar scene accompanied with the piano notes. The rest is lacking in imaginative use of the camera, too 2D (and i'm not referring to the movie format), very little sense of depth and lack of physicality in the action. I couldn't believe anything, i was watching a render, not a movie!!!
I expected a more terrifying film and a more capable director for what was sold by the trailer.