Grossly misleading trailer, boring movie

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2014)

I grew up watching the old Toho stuff of Godzilla battling monsters and wreaking havoc and having heard all the praise Edwards was getting I expected something along those lines.
Alas, He lived up to his boring legacy after 'Monsters'. Anyone that followed the hype and saw the Japanese toy line knew about the other creatures but honestly what I expected was something along these lines:
Alien monster thing attacks, Godzilla awakens and destroys it, Godzilla destroys civilisation. The trailers made the movie seem like something it definitely wasn't.
Godzilla's origins were too vague, people just kinda knew who he was and were like, "cool, Godzilla's here" Sure, the climactic battle is good and Godzilla himself looks great, his foe on the other hand looks like a sleeker alien Cloverfield and the movie is over incumbered with tedious, made for TV melodrama.
This movie is the biggest disappointment of the year so far and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.