Godzilla, a beast of a movie.

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2014)

First off when you go in you have to understand that Godzilla has not graced our presence for sixteen years. You have to understand that they have to tell a story to the new generation and upcoming Godzilla fans. When I left the theater I did feel a little dis-appointed, but the more I thought about it the more the plot and screen time of our favorite giant lizard made sense. The movie has to have a good foundation to build off of for hopefully a sequel and new fans to the franchise. The first part was great in my opinion a very nice steady build up, almost an urgency to what we have been anticipating for a while now. I liked the pace and the acting was great. The second act was kind of slow, but the build was worth the wait when Godzilla finally makes his appearance, I was leaning on the edge of my seat staring at awe at the masterpiece of Godzilla, his presence was anything but non-effective. In my opinion the CGI on Godzilla and the MUTOs were spectacular, the pure wake of disaster was what I expected.
The characters to me were okay but not enough to inflict emotion, just out of reach of really caring what happened to them but yet still interested in the outcome. I don't expect a masterpiece of a love story in a Godzilla movie but if you are going to put it in, you need to be able to sell it. As a long time fan I would have been fine with two hours of monster to monster fighting, but I understand the reasoning.
The last half was by far my favorite of the entire movie, you get great action scenes and of course the last ten minutes are of epic proportions. I say this as I took a fellow non-fan and they thought it "pretty f'ing epic", words of theirs not mine.
All I can say is give it a chance and go see it, very great look and my hat is off to Edwards, I think he did a splendid job at giving our favorite lizard a great debut in this reboot.