If its intent was not insult the intelligence of the viewer...

Rating: 5/10 (23 October 2014)

it could have been better but either the screenwriter or the film's director was just hellbent on treating the film's audience like we all have intellectual disabilities. The acting by the film's woefully underused albeit supremely talented cast (Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins) was solid and superb but unfortunately the moderately talented ones who were thrown to the forefront just did not measure up to what could have been. You already have a legendary main villain/monster(i.e. Godzilla) now throw in one or two other veritable sidekicks and the premise just sweetens on the page but the result is gross over-ambition rather cinematographic excellence. The simple premise of a monster laying dormant for many years feeding off of nuclear energy underground/underwater and finally emerging to terrorise the populous is made complex with unnecessary twists and turns and the pointless need to show off technology that is neither revolutionary nor spectacular. We have seen it all before and done better might I add (the Jurassic Park films, Pacifim Rim, Cloverfield) just to mention a few. When asked in an interview if she enjoyed her brief but dramatic presence in the film, Juliette Binoche said this: "I don't know how much fun you can have when you have to die in two seconds, and you're the one real woman character and you're dead in three minutes and 45 seconds." I rest my case.