a disappointing, but not awful entry to the Godzilla franchise

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2015)

I haven't watched that many godzilla movies (2 Japanese and the American version from 1998) but i still wanted to see this movie, and was really looking forward to it. Godzilla looked awesome, a little fat but awesome. The trailer really fooled me, because I went into this movie thinking that we would get a lot of Bryan Cranston and Godzilla. We didn't get that much of neither of them, and that really disappointed me. Though in the short time we got to see them, they were awesome. Bryan Cranston was really great, I really felt with the character and I got really exited about the rest of the movie. However, that did not last long, because his boring son became the main character and the movie suddenly went south.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson played a really uninteresting character, who I didn't care for. what annoyed me wasn't that they chose not to show that much of Godzilla, but that the two other monsters got so much more screen time. The two other monsters looked like sh*t, they sort of looked like a blend of the Cloverfield monster and a turtle. As I wrote earlier in the review, I didn't like the main character so it bothered me that he also got so much screen time. I just didn't get that invested in any of the characters, and it annoyed me because Bryan Cranston was sooo good and would have been a perfect main character.
Spoiler!!! The ending was very spectacular, there is a fight between the monsters which was really cool. And after watching Pacific Rim which had "hundreds" of monster fights. I was actually happy that Godzilla didn't have that many fights, because I felt that there was to many fights in Pacific Rim, which made them really boring. So the fight in Godzilla made a much bigger impact on me than any of the fights in Pacific Rim. End of Spoiler!!!
The movie was way to long, and most of the characters were really poorly written. It wasn't the worst movie I've watched this year, but I was really disappointed. Im not sure of what I was expecting, but I was pretty annoyed when the movie was over. This was a very mediocre movie 5.5/10
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