Moving in the right direction

Rating: 7/10 (2 September 2014)

This movie was actually made by someone who understood why someone of us enjoyed these movies as kids. This is a popcorn flick above all else. So logic is thin. There are all sorts of little messes.
The plot could definitely been improved. A crater of a former nuclear power plant is holding a giant cocoon for 15 years and no one notices. Right there, reality snaps. BUt this *IS* a movie about giant radioactive monsters, right? So are we really expecting real world logic to last long? WHen father yells out for his son being hit, when his son can't be seen and is in a covered and locked truck which he never saw before, you think, wow,talk about bad editing and continuity. There are more. The army stops all vehicles on a bridge, stranding them, then you hear, "don't fire there are civilians on the bridge," well yeah, you trapped them there then rolled a tank onto the bridge because a bridge is a great offensive line to a creature that is longer than the bridge itself.
The main characters are somewhat uninteresting. They try and put them all in harm's way, but really it is all very orchestrated and false feeling.
So why do I like this.
Because Godzilla was the good monster. Granted, Godzilla probably needed a little more screen time. He wasn't just destroying things like a dinosaur running wild. I loved the description of G as an alpha predator, a force of nature.
And he was given a cool looking monster to fight against. I really liked the MUTOS. They were like atomic gnats. People loved those old movies because they loved the monsters. Recreating the outdated monsters of the 60s will not work. The monster need to be monsters that people would find cool today. I wish they didn't feel the need to drag the fight to the U.S. to make it "interesting" to Americans.
This is what the old movies were about. "Let them fight." It is exactly what the audience wants. They got those elements right this time. Hopefully the sequel will invest in better plots and characters.