That's a lot of fis---wait....WHERE DID THIS DECENT MOVIE COME FROM?

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2014)

This is my first review on IMDb, so you'll have to excuse me.
First of all, let me say that this movie exceeded far beyond my expectations. I thought that this was going to be another corny and ridiculous money-grab just like the disastrous joke that was made in 1998. However, although I was pleasantly surprised with what I got, I still have some big issues with this movie.
I'll start with positives I saw. Since they (for the most part), overshadow the negatives:

Unlike the 1998 version which DID NOT take itself seriously in the slightest, this movie absolutely caught on the perfect dark, gloomy and gritty atmosphere for what a Godzilla movie should be like, and with the CGI technology we have today; this certainly did NOT disappoint in the slightest.

The CGI effects are top-notch and just look fantastic. Believe me this is not a lie, but when Godzilla's tail and the spikes on his back began to glow blue and he released the atomic breath, I got up in the theater and clapped, I didn't care if I got made fun of by the people behind me. That was honestly one of the most badass things I've seen in a long time.

The negatives:

The biggest issue I had with this movie is probably the fact that it did NOT know what to do with itself. It set itself up with a perfect tone, perfect story (adding on stuff like the old nuclear bomb clips claiming that those were not tests, but rather they were trying to get rid of Godzilla was a perfect idea), but it just did not know when to be action or adventure. Whenever we got into a spine-tingling action sequence in the first half-quarter of the movie, it gets cut off......WHAT THE F#(@????? You have absolutely no idea how irritated and disappointed I got whenever that happened because it would immediately cut it off and then five seconds later they would show 2 second clips of the fight through a simulated news report in a different scene. Yes, I know what the fanboys are going to say; "OH DUDE, YOU DON'T GET IT MAN, YOU SHOULD STICK TO MICHAEL BAY MOVIES, YOU SHOULD GO WATCH DIE HARD OR SOMETHING!!". Let me tell you right now I would sit through a few movies that I love such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Requiem for a Dream, or an anime series called "Serial Experiments Lain" which have no action in them at all, and I could tell you RIGHT NOW that mixing in subtlety in a Godzilla movie is a terrible idea. Godzilla movies are not about subtlety, but rather about something as simple as watching giant monsters beat the living crap out of each other. Sure, give us the story more in depth and deeper dialogue but don't you dare take my action from my Godzilla movies. That's like talking to a girl you like and your best friend comes and cockblocks you.

The characters are just unbelievably boring and cardboard cutouts of different stories of other movies.

The whole movie is titled Godzilla, but it took nearly an hour before we got to see a first glimpse of him.

I got a few more negatives but they would probably qualify under nitpicking.

Overall though, my final score would be 7.5. It was worth the money to see it in the big screen. Let go a few bucks and have some fun.