Was Godzilla even in this movie?

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2014)

The movie is called "Godzilla," but I think Godzilla was shown for a total of 10 minutes. This version is more of the radioactive, laser-beam shooting Godzilla - the complete opposite of the 1998 version of Godzilla. From the start, you can tell the movie was making Godzilla out to be the good guy (kind of like King Kong - he destroys the city, but then they make you feel bad for him). The acting was very poor, and the movie just didn't seem to flow at all. The characters were doing things that made little to no sense, and nobody seemed to really care that giant radioactive monsters were killing people. It felt like I was watching a poor late-90s / early 2000s movie. Not to mention Bryan Cranston's character dies (in a very anti-climactic way) before the main part of the movie even begins (and nobody even cares, not even his son or daughter-in-law). At one point, there is a scene of the main characters' old house, which was destroyed over 15 years ago. It is completely overgrown, the walls have collapsed and the foundation is torn apart. And yet the "Happy Birthday" banner that the father's son made is still hanging up (those are some pretty strong thumb tacks). It was dumb things like this that occur throughout the movie that make you say "Really?" and ruin the movie.