They said Godzilla would return in 2014......I'm still waiting

Rating: 4/10 (3 May 2015)

When you hear the name Godzilla, you usually get a mental image of a guy in a monster suit smashing a model city, and TOHO has had success with that very premise for decades. This Godzilla movie is just like the other franchise "remakes" Legendary is notorious for making that include mixing unnecessary loud noises that bust your eardrums, making the film too serious, "modern artistic vision", filler etc. the end result is ridiculous! I didn't expect Oscar caliber storytelling or acting, but this was just boring, The pacing was too slow, and I can follow just about any movie but this was difficult, I did however make it to the credits. I had to sit through almost an hour until Godzilla finally made his entrance, right when the first fight starts, it cuts, and we are only shown snippets of it in the form of a news broadcast, and the same way for the rest of the fights WTF?! That'd be like watching the super bowl, with the cameras on the audience 95% of the time! Gareth Edwards said he didn't want to show the monsters fighting, HELLO! isn't Godzilla fighting other monsters the point of watching a Godzilla movie? I don't think the Toho Godzilla franchise would have worked all these years if they'd done it his way. Godzilla himself was very impressive, Thank goodness he wasn't a hermaphroditic lizard monster that ran from the military and got killed with a few missiles. I can deal with his overly bulky build and those elephant feet, but what's up with his roar?!, it sounded muted with too much reverb except for the last part, something clearly went wrong with the mixing, I don't care what the sound editors say. Edwards needs to reconsider the way he's doing this series, because it's only going to get worse if he continues it with snippets of the title monster. I'm not a complainer, I just know what I like. I'll give Godzilla '14 a 4/10 based on Godzilla himself, and minus 6/10 for the nonsense. They said Godzilla would return in 2014...I'm still waiting.