My hopes were shattered

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2015)

I only got around to watching this movie in Feb of 2015 so I'd heard some friends cheer for it and others criticize it. I loved the movie "Monsters" so I was really hoping that this movie would be as good and be a solid step forward for the director. But this movie sucks. I mean the CGI was very impressive but other than that there wasn't a shred of logic to it, the characters were boring, I hate to say it but Bryan Cranston was overacting like crazy for pretty much his entire role, and the government and military were just stupid stupid stupid the entire movie long. There were dozens of good choices they could have made to fight these monsters but they clung to doing what had already failed them because it was convenient to the plot. Their complete inability to keep track of the movements of a giant monster despite having satellites and super-sonic aircraft at their disposal was not believable in the slightest. The science was a complete joke and the movie would have been much better off with them just saying "Yeah, we're not really sure what's going on... something with radiation we think" and just leaving it at that. Overall it felt like a movie where the writer or director came up with a bunch of "cool scenes" (like Godzilla swimming under an aircraft carrier) and then tried to just string them all together into a story.
Just a complete waste of everyone's time and money and another failure to produce a decent Gozilla movie. I give it a 3/10 for the pretty CGI and the visually impressive sequence of them dropping into the city in the final act of the movie (y'know, the sequence they showed in the trailers for it).