Really Really disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2014)

*contains spoilers*
I wanted to like the movie as I had been looking forward to it for several weeks.
First off the CGI is impressive, fantastic Godzilla and MUTO monsters, 10 out of 10 for the monsters!
However, the pace of the movie was too slow and the beginning of the movie really could be cut out without impact
The character development simply did not work and failed leaving me with no connection to them what so ever. The only character with a little depth was Dr. Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe)
The movie was structured to focus on the characters rather than the monsters, but because the character development was so poor it completely failed; for example when Godzilla and the MUTO started to fight the movie switched several times to one of the characters either watching the monsters on television or a similar scenario. Actually, this was a really clever idea but it failed because I just didn't care about the one dimensional characters and was begging for the movie to switch back to the monster fight scenes.....which didn't happen
And don't get me started on the Admiral, David Strathairn is a fine actor , but I was really beginning to think he didn't realise he was in the Godzilla movie.....no passion, not tension, no suspense, no frustration from the character he played
The person sitting next to me in the Cinema started using his Iphone, half way through the move, normally I would ask the person to switch it off, but I felt the same ....bored
What is it about Godzilla movies? The movie back in 1998 failed as the casting was terrible but at least it tried to create characters and tried to build excitement and suspense. This movie should have been and had the potential to be great..... but it left me feeling really really disappointed