Less is more!

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2014)

Firstly, Gareth Edwards did a wonderful job on this movie and the characters are a perfect selection, but who I "blame" are the story writers. Seems like after a powerful start (aprox. from the beginning to the revisiting of the nuclear zone) they seemed to have simply run out of ideas and the rest of the movie was a cliché. They started to build it up excellently only to see it getting stuck at a low level. For me one monster (Godzilla obviously) would have made the cut. The scenes of the monster fighting where just too long and occasionally boring. The main reason why I give it 7 out of 10 is that after watching the trailer I thought that finally somebody makes a trailer which gives you enough information but doesn't spoil the story but on the other hand gets you super excited about the whole thing. Well, for me the parts of the trailer, which I though would probably be the "crumbs" in the movie, ended up being my favorite parts, which is not a good deal. I saw so much in this story, started to imagine cool scenes that could maybe happen in the movie in a similar form, but they just didn't come up with anything good in the second part. The ending: seriously, who does cheer for a monster that kills about 10 thousand people per footstep. I thought it was the worst ending for a movie of this kind. Maybe killing it would have been to simple, or they thought maybe it's not a good thing to put an end to the main character. Maybe they have a Godzilla II plan, but I wouldn't recommend it. That was enough for another 20 years or so. If not for the good beginning and great acting (mostly by Bryan Cranston) then my rating would be similar as the 1998 version, Okay maybe that's a little too harsh, but there was a lack of the scent of fear, you didn't feel the weight of the whole monsters attacking the world thing. All in all, It was like watching two or three movies mixed up. I felt disappointed.
A few things that I wanted to see more of: more Godzilla, more Bryan Cranston, more Godzilla vs men, more buildings getting destroyed by Godzilla.
What I wanted to see less of: The other monsters, the Dr. (who always came up with something new like as if he had only needed a bit time to think it through), the planning (let's blow them up, no let's rather follow Godzilla on the sea, okay, let's wait a bit until he starts too take down the bridge, there are civilians on the bridge don't shoot! okay now - shoot!)