The trailers and teasers made me think of a different, much darker plot. like the original

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2014)

(Not a good review, its just me ranting about how I wished the plot went with a few spoilers so don't take it too seriously; my first time registering and reviewing a movie on IMDb so ignore this in favor of far better reviewers)
After seeing it, I kind of liked it, I must say it was a cool monster movie, but it was just an OK GODZILLA movie. I personally think not for everyone...so if you're a true Godzilla lover of the FIRST movie of its franchise beware. I don't mind the plot and characters too much, but I still wished it was scripted different and how it was executed.
To be honest, when it mentioned that this Godzilla film will returns to "gritty roots of the original film" I was hoping it would be much much darker, tragic, somber or foreboding like the original Godzilla film.
The trailers and teasers were what sucked me in, Before watching the movie, they made me think and want for the plot be Godzilla itself/himself as the main problem for humanity by eventually surfacing and destroying cities, cause tsunamis and other destructive things. The government/military seemed to know about since 1954 and prepared MUTO monsters as experiments to fight Godzilla but eventually just got out of control and became cannon fodder Godzilla's wrath along the way. So I expected myself watching a Godzilla film similar to the 1954 original Godzilla movie about humanity's intense emotional, physical and futile struggle trying to kill something GODLIKE like Godzilla off for their survival and safety and while Godzilla keeps bringing grief and terror to humanity in "a force of nature" sort of way
And than the meaning "the arrogance of man thinking nature is in their control...and not the other way around" would come to fruit when the ending would involve the government/military/people's plan to wait for either Godzilla or Muto to win (Godzilla obviously) then they nuke him. But he survives and would punish and destroy the city out of rage, like nature is punishing them for challenging it and then ends with Godzilla swimming back to the ocean while the camera focuses on the destruction and ruins.
I wanted to see sad scenes of people recovering from Godzilla like a natural disaster kinda like the first Godzilla movie. Scenes like silently pacing around in despair, going to churches and temples to crying, mourning and praying to religion for some kind of miracle/salvation from Godzilla and even the Mutos running around also causing problems instead of just reacting in awe to the monsters presence and destruction. I even wanted to feel sorry for the main character/protagonist (Ford Brody) by having him to losing everything including like his family, friends and his very life during the movie. Halfway through the movie I was really hoping it won't be a nice "hey, main character/protagonist and wife/son ALL happily united and survived all this disaster while people survivors would broadcast Godzilla as some kind of a hero for killing Muto and uh...something about restoring balance to nature while watching him swim back to the sea!" ending kind of way.
I glad they represented Godzilla and how he made me,a human, feel small and insignificant compare to him and that he is an animal, (a destructive animal that became nearly godlike from nuclear radiation but an animal nonetheless.)and not exactly portrayed as to be a hero or a savior but also not in a completely senseless evil way as well; just a beast like and primal being of potential destruction, death and mayhem to all and every living thing around it, whether this creature does it on purpose or not like the original film because Godzilla is a force of nature, and just like nature, IT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT LITTLE ANTS LIKE YOU, ME OR THE REST OF HUMANITY
Call me ungrateful because I am, For many of you guys will love this movie or not, for me, i didn't want a happy ending, I just wanted a sad, tragic story + ending for the 2014 Godzilla film that'll make me go home thinking about anti nuclear wars, weapons and how small we can be in the face of nature. (although the movie did made me feel that a bit)
I liked it, and I will buy it on Blueray, but what i am saying is that the movie was just not how I hoped it would be because of how the trailers and teasers hyped it to be.