5% disappointing, 95% awesome

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2014)

Granted this was my most anticipated movie this year. I honestly didn't mind the amount of screen time Godzilla had, sure they had opportunities to show him more (and earlier on) but I still think he was in it as much as he needed to be.
What did slightly disappoint me was that it got a little slow in the middle before the big monster showdown began and they seemed to show the other monsters more than they showed Godzilla, which is pretty ironic considering the title. But once the brawl went down that immediately went away for me.
Another thing, I know the human characters don't matter much in a Godzilla movie but they could've been much more engaging. I hate to say this but I just couldn't connect to Aaron Johnson's character at all...as the lead actor he should've shown far more emotion especially considering a lot of the dramatic stuff that happens to him and his family.
This disappointed me the most (Spoiler alert):
I know that looks like a lot for it to be just 5% disappointing but the movie itself almost completely made up for its flaws. The monster fights and moves are actually very creative, and I was a huge Godzilla fan ever since I was a kid so I've seen a lot of these. They never fail to surprise.
It was a brilliant idea to make Godzilla into an art-house-style disaster movie, at least the way I saw it. It didn't have pointless mayhem or monsters always slamming into each other so they could get entangled and indistinguishable. This movie takes its time, and when G finally shows up you don't even mind it that he arrives so late. I literally wanted to cheer in my theater in his fight scenes and every time he roared...brought me chills every time.
At least this time they show more of the disaster from the perspective of the citizens experiencing it, unlike almost every Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay disaster movie. They could learn a ton from Edwards' approach.