Godzilla Was a Let Down

Rating: 3/10 (16 May 2014)

I was looking forward to this movie ever since the teaser trailer came out. There were about 200 people in the cinema and I was pumped. Unfortunately if you thought this movie was about Godzilla fighting another monster then you were mistaken, instead its a movie about nothing... just some soldier and his family doing stuff while you wait for the monsters to fight.
Don't get me wrong i love a good story, something that makes you think and pulls on your heart strings but Godzilla doesn't do that. They explain everything about the plot through dialogue. They tell tell you about Godzilla's origins and about their plans to stop the monsters. I found it hard to care about any of the characters, Bryan Cranston dies so suddenly that when they told Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) about it, I thought they were lying to him. The only reason your supposed to care about his wife and son is because they are his wife and son, his son only has like three lines in the whole film. You actually care more about the little Japanese boy on the train than you do his own son. I'm guessing your supposed to like Godzilla at the end but I don't see why. You have to wait an hour till you properly see him then another 30 minutes till he does anything. And then he still destroys half the city. At the end they called him the savior of the city, he doesn't care about the city, he just wanted to kill the other monsters who were there because of some nuclear warhead.
The pacing was terrible, I was actually checking my phone to see how long we were waiting for Godzilla to appear and I wasn't the only one. When he finally does show his fat ass, your pumped and ready for a fight, then... nothing happens. You just see a T.V which tells you what happened. Then they almost fight two more times but don't. Then when they finally do its in the middle of the night and you cant see them, and all they do is wrestle. Then Godzilla shoots a lazer out of his mouth which does nothing, but then later on kills the other monster. Like i said there were about 200 people and no one made a sound. There were no oohs, no aahs, just silence. People were just sitting there while the movie happened.
People are saying how great the CGI was in this movie but CGI doesn't make a Godzilla movie, Godzilla does. All i wanted was Godzilla, but i only got half an hour of him, and an hour and a half of crap. So sorry about this rant, but that's just how I feel.
Maybe we will have a good Godzilla movie in another 16 years.