Film That Had Potential, But Didn't Live Up To It

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2014)

I'm not going to lie, I didn't really have any high hopes going into this movie. I've never been a fan of monster movies, and after the 1998 film, I was definitely not a Godzilla fan. But I first saw the trailers for this and saw Bryan Cranston was in it. I figured, a film with him in it can't be that bad, can it?
I was wrong. The movie started out good. It had a mystery about it, and following Cranston's character as he tries to uncover the mystery had me enjoying the film.
Then (SPOILER ALERT HERE):
They killed Cranston's character fairly early in the film. Leaving us to follow Aaron Johnson's cookie-cutter "Soldier whose wife worries about constantly" character. I like Johnson in Kick-Ass, I thought he was a good actor. But he just seems to only be in this for the paycheck. Elizabeth Olsen isn't much better, and her character development goes as far as "wife of main character, mother of main character's son".
Now comes the part that really turned me against this movie.
Godzilla, the title character, is barely even in it. When he is in it, it's exciting, don't get me wrong. There is a lot of destruction and we actually get to see him fight other monsters like in some of the classic movies from Japan. But the way the trailers made it out, it made it seem like Godzilla was going to be this film spanning force of nature that would be causing mayhem most of the film. Instead, meh.
I'm sorry if anyone doesn't like my opinion, but I've seen far better movies than this.
The silver lining is, that this film is vastly superior to the 1998 crapfest starring Matthew Broderick. The effects were amazing, and Godzilla has never looked better. But good effects don't make a movie good.
I've got to give it a low score because the movie was just not the way it was hyped. It takes itself way too serious, and I just couldn't enjoy it.
Had Bryan Cranston's character been the character you follow the entire film, it would have been better. Instead of Robo-Johnson.
See it if you want, but you're not missing out on anything if you choose to see something else.