Well made, but doesn't deliver

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2014)

While a good portion of the first act teases with glimpses of the big 'ol fella, after his unveil it continues to tease by cutting away to uninteresting story lines and ultimately becomes a frustrating experience. One dimensional and incredibly bland human characters do nothing to hold our attention, while we impatiently wait for some oversized well rendered pixels to level cities and fight each other. There are some exciting, well directed set pieces, but they feel like bookends to some truly atrocious human drama. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is so vanilla as a lead and has such little screen presence, that if they digitally erased him from every scene, I probably wouldn't even notice. Elizabeth Olsen feels tacked on last minute into this narrative and she has nothing to work with and Bryan Cranston mugs for the camera. But quality human drama is not why you watch a Godzilla film, but that's really all that's served here - minus the quality.