It's a mixed bag.

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2014)

First off, I'd like to say that despite Godzilla being a complete bad ass and having amazing CGI, it's just a normal every day "Soldier needs to get back home to his family" love story cliché. *Spoilers beyond this point, so if you haven't seen the movie, please do not read ahead* Godzilla, himself, was amazing. Welcome back Big G, and the CGI was phenomenal. But, that does NOT make a movie good. I knew I wasn't going to see Godzilla too much. After all, it was supposed to pay homage to the classic. I knew it was going to be more of a human story, but that's where this fails. Most of the characters are unlikable and the ones that are likable do top notch performances. But even then, you're still stuck with Aaron Taylor Johnson as a bland soldier. Now I like A.T.J. but this is not the best performance I've seen from him. Elizabeth Olsen was sort of likable, but all you really remembered her as was a nurse. Cranston, Watanabe, and Binoche are easily the best characters, but they're not even there for too long. Cranston and Binoche both die in the first 20 minutes. While I knew Binoche was going to die, the way how they just killed off Cranston was unforgivable. There are little to no monster fights, end even so, they cut away from it. "It's just paying homage!" Bullshit. The classic didn't cut away from ANYTHING. Watanabe was great too, but even then, he wasn't even shown too much. And the Muto, while I thought were pretty terrifying and unique from the pictures I've seen, were just knock off Cloverfields and Starship Trooper bugs. And what sucks even more is that the story is focusing on them instead of Godzilla. I payed to see Godzilla, not these pussies. Plus what's with this whole "Change everything" Re-Make stuff. The classic was fine as it was. It's like having a spider man re-make and changing 90% of the characters and changing the storyline. However, the first 20 minutes are perfect, same with the ending fight (The ending scene was just cringe worthy, as in "Hail Godzilla, king of the monsters" cheesiness). It's definitely not the best, it's not the worst (Although it isn't far) and it's over all, just boring and bland with the stupidest army I've seen, with very little (But great) pay off, and is wonderfully shot and again, has 5 star CGI. I'm totally fine if you like it. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. But with me, I'm going to settle with Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah as my top favorite.