Some weird editing decisions, but overall really good!

Rating: 8/10 (16 May 2014)

I felt quite confused while i was watching this, not because of the plot but because of some of the decisions that was made into the movie, but i can definitively say that when the credits started rolling, i had the biggest smile on my face.
As expected the movie focuses a lot on the humans and military, but instead of focusing on overdone simplistic character driven stories like most disaster movies out there, this one actually focuses on the events of the plot per se, the movie teases that the main character may be characterized by his father issues, but this quickly becomes a device to set him on the plot's course. This has the downside of the characters not being exactly the most interesting people out there and having almost no development, but honestly, when you go to see a movie called Godzilla you don't sign for human drama, but for the monster and the events surrounding him.
With that being said though, the movie does take a little of it's sweet time to get things moving, the first part focuses on the fact that the real cause of a certain disaster was not natural, but because of something that the government is hiding, while it's a huge thing for the characters it feels more like padding for the viewers, since it's obvious to us that the source of the problems is a monster. It's not that bad of a start though, at the very least it's not painful like Peter Jackson's King Kong that definitively could use some cuts here and there, Godzilla may actually take just as long as Kong to appear, but you had stuff with the story going on before, so the wait is not only less painful, it's also more rewarding.
Without giving much away, for most of the movie we are watching the military tracking two giant monsters that are wracking havoc, and Godzilla appears to put an end to this, 'cause that's pretty much his job, but the way the movie handles this is a little... Funny. Every time a monster appear there's this sense of scale and dread, but it focus a lot on revealing the monster and the civilian/military reactions, not much on their doings, most times you won't get to see the destruction of the city and is only shown devastated as a aftermath, and it even goes out of it's way to tease a huge fight about to happen, only to cut it almost entirely, twice, including the first appearance of the titular monster.
I do understand why they decided to cut though, there's just so much you can do with distinct monsters fighting: Bitting and throwing each other, if they did show the first two fights it would become repetitive and would remove a lot from the excitement of the final showdown which was definitively the highlight of the movie, it feels pretty much like the Avengers where the movie throws everything it's got on the last act, we don't get as much military interference and we finally have clear shots of the monsters giving all they got. The amazing CGi, combined with the great sound effects and amazing musical score really sets the mood and we find ourselves really rooting for Godzilla, which is extremely sympathetic and definitively a true hero. The movie would benefit from having less interference though.
In a nutshell, Godzilla is a interesting movie that kind of loses itself at some points, but has one of the most blood pumping final act you could ask for in any kind of action, monster or super hero movie. The last act alone would get a 10 out of 10 from me, but overall a 8 out of 10 does it justice, can't wait for the blu-ray release.