Godzilla fan since 1975 gives it a thumbs down

Rating: 5/10 (25 May 2014)

I've been a Godzilla fan since 1975. I've been waiting for a good modern Godzilla remake. This is not it. The number one complaint is what everyone else is saying... Godzilla has NO screen time. This director is terrible. Everyone says his earlier movie "Monsters" is amazing, but in that movie you barely even see any monsters, and the director continues the tradition with this movie. Well, you do get to see monsters, they're just not Godzilla... the name of the movie is GODZILLA, not GODZILLA'S ENEMIES. You can tell this was totally intentional. You just keep waiting for a monster fight and they tease you twice throughout the movie (once by showing you brief moments of a fight on news footage, the next when they start fighting and the doors are literally closed on the view). It's absolutely stupid. The director thinks he's being all clever by teasing the audience. I just kept thinking they BETTER pay off at the end. There is a fight at the end but it's fairly brief and not very epic. Godzilla is ALL about the fights. They really blew it here. Also, this movie is SO poorly written. There are so many logical issues I was distracted by them. All I kept thinking was how does a story with so many problems get green-lit? I can't remember seeing a movie in recent times that was so lazily written. The budget was spent on the CGI, which is top notch, but the story suffers. So if you like beefcakes or blondes, this movie may be for you. All beauty and no brains. True Godzilla fans will be sorely disappointed in his lack of screen time, lack of battle scenes, and the absolutely terrible writing.