A Visual Spectacle Lacking Fully Utilized Characters

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2014)

After long years of absence, the world's most famous monster reptile breathes its radioactive fire anew on the big screen.
Gareth Edwards' version of Godzilla vaunts a stellar ensemble of powerhouse cast and extravagant CGI-effects. Edwards attempts to cruise through creature and disaster features of the film. That take shines on the film's small and delicate moments, but fails to deliver a significant result on the entirety of the movie. The fight scenes among the beastly creatures are good and sometimes thrilling but lack sustained pulling effect to keep the audience holding their breath.
The huge potential of the casts is not fully and properly utilized; most of whom remain ineffective throughout the film and fail to establish enough impact to connect their presence to the whole story. Even Aaron Taylor-Johnson's role doesn't seem to matter as the focus of the movie seems to always fall on its real superstars, Godzilla itself and a pair of smaller villainous monsters whose potential mating poses threat to the whole world. In main, this movie is good, its biggest asset are still the monsters and as far as the fighting scenes are concerned, this one is tolerable, I mean still good, but not explosive enough to deliver edge-of-your-seat thrill.