Godzilla has returned.

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2014)

After a decade, Godzilla has returned to the big screen. This time, the mutant dinosaur fights 2 monstrous creatures who threaten the world. EOD Ford Brody must get back to his family during this chaos.
I was psyched to hear that a Godzilla reboot was in the works. After seeing a couple trailers and commercials, I got even more excited. However I didn't set my expectations too high; I was thinking it was going to be good, not awesome, fantastic, etc. My uncle and I went and saw it on the first day it came out. Basically, this movie takes the 98' remake and crushes it.
The special effects were, in a way, incredible. I love the new Godzilla design, the M.U.T.O design was quite ominous looking and of course the destruction was cool. The acting was overall pretty good. For a movie like this, the characters were actually pretty nice. I've only seen Bryan Cranston and Ken Wantanbe in one or two other movies/shows, but they both did awesome performances. It was nice that they brought back the name Serizawa (doctor of the same name from the original film). Yes, they could've had Joe (Cranston) live a little while longer, but he did his job.
While the monster fight scenes were good, the way they were shown was interesting. Either the monsters took up the whole screen, you saw them in the background while the characters were doing something, or you might see them on a TV. While they could've done more of the monster action taking up the whole frame, this way was kind of unique. And yes, they probably could've done a little more monster screen time, but you can't have everything.
The concept of the nuclear testing in the Pacific being a cover-up to try and kill Godzilla was a genius idea (I thought so anyway). I was kind of disappointed that we didn't see Admiral Stenz's "HALO Jump" speech that was shown in the trailers. I liked how this Godzilla was the anti-hero, not the hero nor the villain. Director Gareth Edwards described him as "a force of nature, he's the punishment we deserve." If you ask me, that's pretty deep stuff.
There you have it, "Godzilla" is (I think) a great, satisfying film. I was quite impressed with how they handled this movie and I place it behind "Captain America the Winter Soldier" as one of the best movies of the year. The 1998 remake has officially been blown out of the water and I give it a B+. I hope the sequel will be just as good if not better.