Expected some more

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2014)

I haven't been to the movies often due to work but because of it's extremely appealing trailer I made an effort and decided to go watch this film although, plot wise, I would probably have preferred the new X-MEN or Edge of Tomorrow. I expected Godzilla to focus itself mostly on action and CGI.
CONTAINS SPOILERS The opening credits are a montage of Monarch documents and 1950s videos. This immediately brought to mind the 1998 Godzilla which kind of started the same way. But fear not, this Godzilla is nothing like the one from 1998.
Bryan Cranston steals the first part of the show. His performance is amazing however he's not in the movie much. And the same can be said for Godzilla, and this is the big problem of the film. We actually only get to "really" see the King of Monsters in the last 20 min of the movie.
Another problem is that the characters from this story have absolutely no development. After that intro scene during 1999, one would expect that some of the plot would revolve around the relationship between Ford(Taylor Johnson) and his father(Cranston). But that doesn't happen. The same goes with Ford's new family. Elle (Olsen) has absolutely no importance to this story whatsoever. Overall, this movie had a lot of capable actors but doesn't make the most of them. Juliette Binoche dies right in the beginning; Elizabeth Olsen just runs from everything; Ken Watanabe's scenes only required for him to be kept in awe during most of the time; Aaron Taylor-Johnson was just required to act cool which he already looks by nature; Cranston the only one from which acting was really required died too early.
Overall, the film is very appealing to the eye with beautiful CGI (those blue flames are so cool) and awesome fighting scenes between the beasts. But the whole film was really just a huge build up for the final fight scene between the monsters which makes it a little boring during that time, having no character development and all.