Diet Jaws

Rating: 3/10 (10 June 2014)

It must've been a big gamble for the latest "please forgive us for Godzilla 1998" project to be handed to a director whose previous film was a hilariously low budget indie monster flick, then give him the budget of a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster and tell him "yo dawg, go make Godzilla." It didn't work.
I admire what Gareth Edwards is trying to do, provide a suspense thriller that give you the big payoff at the end instead of doing what Pacific Rim did last summer, but this. movie. doesn't. work. It's just boring, the only two interesting characters get basically no screen time, and the main character played by Taylor Johnson is so bland, dull and blank you could've recast him halfway through the movie or killed him and no one would've noticed. The big Godzilaa fight at the end is awesome, but it is not worth sitting through so much boring story, bad characters and stupid, insulting set-pieces to get to, skip it.