A good movie , probably a 7 as a movie, but where is Godzilla?

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2014)

Well in my opinion this movie is being over rated, a 10? It wasn't terrible, but come on a 10? The subliminal messages for September 11th and other disasters puts it lower than that off the bat. I didn't know what to expect going into Godzilla. I was trying to be open minded. The roar from the trailer was the first thing I worried about, because it just doesn't sound quite right. That's a little detail, icing on the cake. Important but not the core of the movie's problems. The core of the movie's problem is that as a Godzilla film... it doesn't really have Godzilla. I didn't really expect that . Godzilla has about 20 -30 seconds in this 3 hour movie... literally. If you do a slow count, I think that is about right.
Count as slow as you want, it's a 3 hour movie. The movie itself isn't so bad, but because of the lack of Godzilla I give it a 7, as a movie that doesn't really have Godzilla... I didn't care for the other monsters either, it's just a weird plot , the two other monsters are male and female and getting jiggy with it... and do a head rub.... It was just weird, didn't work naturally for me. I would preferred if they had mothara and Gamera or something. But no they had two Cloverfield type monsters and showed them far more than they did Godzilla. Godzilla was barely in this movie.
The movie also focuses way too much on the military, most the film is the military defeating the monsters and fighting the monsters, trying to defeat the monsters and not Godzilla... at the end when Godzilla apparently gets tried of fighting he just grabs the monsters by the throat shoots his atomic breathe down their throat and rips their head off... The other one I think he just beats to death with a building and it's dead... that's pretty damn lame. Tag on that seeing the military more than we see Godzilla and September 11th subliminal messages... and you got a winner.What some people don't realize yet is that by watching a movie they are basically watching the news, whether it's about war, being a patriot or a politician's lying feel good speech or September 11th... it's all the same BS and now the subliminal messages are becoming appalling obvious in film.
Godzilla actually has no problem killing these monsters... there's no real fighting... The Japanese won't be taking any notes and we should have been taking many when writing the fight scenes for this turkey of a script. ( Not a terrible movie again, a 7 is being fair...) It's still too American, not Japanese enough. Stay away from Ultraman, USA please. ( I am American.) Also there is no Godzilla music, and the music they have is a cheesy hero theme that made me feel like they were making Godzilla like the Dark Knight.
It really feels like this movie was just to set things up for an possible American sequel film. Godzilla is barely in this movie.
It's not a terrible film, it's not as bad as the 1998 film, but it's still a miss from Japanese culture film and as Americans we really screwed up the fight scenes... The Japanese know how to make monster fight scenes like the Americans know how to make Rocky fight scenes.
We didn't do it justice, but it's not a horrible film. I rather watch Godzilla 2000, which was in American theaters when released. I give this movie a 7.