For a movie called Godzilla, We didn't see much of him.

Rating: 5/10 (22 May 2014)

I was disappointed with this film. This movie doesn't live up to its hype. Turns out that even the trailer is misleading. It even has scenes that don't appear in the movie. The trailer paints this god like creature that lays waste to all. That doesn't happen in the movie. The pace is slow. The humans are po-faced and lack character. there are no really likable characters like Adrian Brody and Naomi Watts in King Kong I'm afraid. Elizabeth Olsen has hardly anything to do. Godzilla doesn't get involved enough and comes over as a bit weak when fighting his main opponents. The T-Rex at the end of Jurassic park is harder and more vicious than this Godzilla.
I expected a bigger battle between the US army, navy and airforce and Godzilla. In fact I swear the armed forces were deliberately making life hard on themselves as far as taking the beasties out. The noble hero aspect of Godzilla was a bit Hanna-Barbra cartoonish.
This movie isn't a patch on Peter Jackson's King Kong which has better human characters, while Cloverfield did a better job of bringing about the end of the world vibe that Godzilla's misleading trailer alluded to.
The worst thing about this film is the untrue hype. The bar is set very high and Godzilla fails to deliver. Kong is still king.