wow, did this movie disappoint

Rating: 3/10 (29 September 2015)

I went into this quite hyped but cautious. I have read and seen a ton of positive reviews for this movie. It was supposed to be so much better than the terrible remake from '98. I'm always cautious though and try to see a movie for what it is.
Let's see: This movie has something over ten minutes of Godzilla in it. I'm all for build-up and some of my most beloved movies are very slow, building up tension or focusing on character studies.
That's exactly what this movie tried to do. And I can't stress TRIED TO enough.
At first, it focused on a father, played by Cranston. This was, in terms of acting and character, the somehow mediocre (I won't bring up hammyness in a Godzilla movie) highlight of this movie. It was semi-interesting and would maybe keep me going if they didn't kill the character at the beginning of the movie.
The rest of the movie focuses on his son- a soldier, played by Taylor-Johnson, and boy is his character ark and delivery terrible! You're supposed to care about him and his family but I couldn't bring myself to.
I felt like they partially knew what they were going for with a part of the movie, then lost track, cut in some monster parts and marketed it as suspenseful and that's kinda it.
So what do you get most of the time? A few clever original Godzilla references, A FEW SHORT nice monster moments you can go watch on YT, a short semi-interesting story arc and loads of boring uninspired crap.
All in all: A very disappointing movie. I wasn't just disappointed by the movie itself, but also by the mostly positive critical reception.
I wouldn't at all recommend this. Just go watch the monster scenes somewhere. You've already seen the nicely done trailer. That's all you need to see and it won't take up too much time.