Terrible Movie. They Made Godzilla Boring.

Rating: 2/10 (15 June 2014)

If you want to watch a Godzilla film, go track down one of the early pre-90's films. This is a movie about an American soldier and the military not Godzilla.
The only good character played by the top billed Bryan Cranston, who then dies 20 mins into the film. With it any character depth and fluidity to the story also dies. So first stroke, the posters and trailers have already flat out lied.
From there the film focuses on the military chasing down the cloverfield monster that hatched from an egg found at the power plant in Japan that Cranston's Character worked at.
So from here let's list the problems with the movie.
Cranston dies, Son is unphased and when Ken Watanabe asks if he knows anything that could he just says "I never listened." completely forgetting about Cranston's apartment in Japan full of research.
Son is shown doing acts of heroism with the blandest face and barely emotes. He's also wearing the most impressive set of plot armour I've ever seen as he's the only survivor of monster attacks several times and shows no difficulty dealing with things, so you don't care if he succeeds.
People are barely surprised or scared of these giant monsters that have just appeared. Let alone the military who just learn about Godzilla's existence from Ken Watanabe. Also they don't notice these 60+ft monsters until they're on top of them
There's a chance to showcase 3 monsters fights all of which cut to TV screens or nameless military personnel talking about how to stop them. Then you finally see a fight 5 minutes before the end.
A second egg hatches in Nevada for more cloverfield shenanigans that gets cut.
Military follow Godzilla and then later start shooting him for no reason.
Despite knowing about the EMP, military keeps throwing boats and planes at the monsters.
There's no character development so you just plain don't care about any of the characters (bar Cranston), even Godzilla! I can't remember anyone's names. Son's family also do nothing but take up screen time and add nothing to the movie.
5 minutes before the end we finally see a fight between Godzilla and the cloverfield Monsters but, because we haven't seen any thing before you don't care if either is going to win. And Godzilla does win, but then he dies at the end and you just don't care, Then he gets up again the next day and he's fine but, you don't care because he's not had nearly enough screen time.
Through out the whole movie you only cared about Cranston's character and when he dies all character depth and development goes out the window for the sake of showcasing the different divisions of the American military. Seriously the Son hangs out with Navy, Ground forces and jumps out a plane. All instead of going to save his family from impeding doom, he volunteers for missions. This would be okay if Taylor-Johnson emoted during this and made it interesting by trying to interact with other soldiers but no, that would be asking too much between cutting out monster fights and cutting to the family.
This movie lacked the science techno-babble and exposition that makes these kind of movies great and they even had the chance to do that with Ken Watanabe's Character but instead they decided to focus on American Military, and an emotionless do-nothing-wrong jar-head.
Terrible acting, no character depth, too much exposition of the army, cutting the monster fights, no focus of plot, unoriginal designs for the new coming monsters, no exposition.
2 stars, 1 for Cranston, 1 for Godzilla's design.
Stop letting America make Godzilla films!