An interesting film that features a Godzilla cameo

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2014)

When I say giant green lizard monster what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Well Godzila of course! Now if I said giant green rage monster then that means I'm talking about the Hulk. One thing about the Hulk and his recent films (Ang Lee's Hulk and the reboot Incredible Hulk, with the exception of The Avengers since he's one of the many stars) we get to see what we came for, THE HULK!
Now this is a MUTO review..... oh wait.... never mind! This is a Godzilla review! Meaning we should have had a good amount of screen time for the king of monsters. Sadly we barley get to see our giant green star of the movie. We ended up getting more MUTO screen time than we did Godzilla. The film does, for a time, a good job with slowly building up to Godzilla however by the time an hour and a half rolls by they seem to have taken a bit too long to do so.
The lacking direction keeps teasing something big only to then cut away to something silly and unnecessary. Monster battle is about to go down but first watch this scene where the main character helps a little boy find his parents! A Monster fight just started to go down but first watch this scene with a kid watching the fight on TV! This goes on and on and on and it becomes aggravating that every time something interesting happens the scenes cut to something else.
When it comes to monster films one of the most common issue are the human characters. This film suffer that same problem and more. These actors work with what they have but in the end we feel no interest for the problems they have to deal with. Sure we need characters to emphasize with but these characters we just not strong enough.
Now let's forget the humans and go back to what's important... GODZILLA! With all these issues one things for sure the moments we do see Godzilla truly delivers. The action scenes with Godzilla fighting the MUTOs were visually dazzling and fun to watch. The special effects in this film is without a doubt just spectacular. The best best looking Godzilla we've seen yet.
This is a film I'd recommend that you just skip to the end of the film. Godzilla is what it is, a missed opportunity. The intention was to revive Godzilla to the new generation of film goers but seemingly fails to. What's a film without it's star? Director Gareth Edwards has apparently set himself up for a possible dilemma. He has announced that there will be a sequel. This film spent the entire film, and literally the entire film, to set up the king of monsters. I hope that the director learns from this film mistakes and can actually give us a Godzilla film that features... Godzilla.
6/10
-Gerry T