A grand disaster (of a) movie

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2014)

Hollywood's marketing team struck again. They showed us a promising trailer, they gave us hope this movie would finally turn the ship around and show some actual story, character and heart.
They got us, again. This movie starts off well. The first 20 min or so were climbing up the Fujiyama of storytelling. Revealing that the whole mystery about ancient Kaijus was never really a mystery to an elite group of multi-national scientists. That's about all there is to the story, no further investigation here. The movie does not climax on this subplot, nor on any other. The Fujiyama falls apart to a small Diamond Head.
Cranston is taken out after a brief, very well acted intro, then his could-not-care-less son takes over and runs the movie into its own grave.
We have him who is facing his father's fate, leaving behind his wife and promising on the phone he would do anything to get home and save them. He ends up doing all kinds of things but that.
He is transported on a helicopter which magically crosses the Pacific from "East of Japan" to, of course, Honolulu. There, he gets trapped in the San Francisco Airport which is, again magic comes into play, now the Honolulu Airport. Weird.
Here comes a badly written substitute, gap filling scene where he "rescues" a little Japanese boy who gets separated from his parents. Being maybe reminded of his own son, he then appears in the desert of Nevada to, you expected it: magically become the only living soldier who knows anything about ICBMs. Wow, aren't we all lucky?
In the meantime, his wife sends their son on a suicide mission on a school bus over the Golden Gate bridge while she herself stays back for what reason? Doesn't matter.
The military, which figured out the fastest way to lure the monsters away from the city is to put some nuclear missiles on a 20 mi/h train through the Rockies. Great thinking. Here comes Lt. Ford something again ready for a HALO jump into the city. And because he was the only one who cared, he floods the monster's nest that he accidentally finds, by uncapping a fire hydrant that, magically of course, was apparently there, in this 75" deep hole in the city. After that, the whole puddle explodes. Talk about less trash in a Hollywood movie.
That is pretty much the movie. But there is also Ken Watanabe who plays a useless Japanese scientist who only speaks in short phrases but has nothing to say, actually.
Also, there is his English assistant who has no job whatsoever.
An Admiral who commands a group of warships that don't fire a single shot at a monster but follow Godzilla all the way through the Pacific until they lose him. He then somehow re-appears in the Oakland command center to take over Air and Ground forces. Wut?!
None of the plots in this movie make any sense. None are resolved and no story is told. It is merely a poorly written scene-by-scene trying to chain events together no matter the fit. It is inconsistent, unrealistic and boring.
The only ray of hope is Godzilla. Yes, you heard right, he is in the movie! He appears for about ten minutes. Fights off the two bugs, then gets himself kicked but then comes back and kills them all off. Luckily, he survives and goes back to his underwater castle. "A hero to the city" the news claim. Well, yes, three monsters killing hundreds of thousands of people. People the military does not care about ("They think it's an earthquake. Let's make sure they keep believing that.") and can't protect, anyways.
What is the message of this movie? What is the story of this movie? Who are the people in this movie? They forgot to make a movie!