Too much soldiering and bad casting on top of it.

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 2014)

I hated the 1998 movie, and I really wanted to like this one, but I just couldn't do it. I thought the casting was fine, except the main character, Ford, was badly cast and was used way too much. Just too much "soldiering" in general. I really have no clue why he was chosen, there had to be someone better available. I felt like they went wrong with the way they "exposed" the mutos and Godzilla too. I think a better way would have had the first Muto tear up Japan, with Godzilla showing up just a little too late, and maybe show the Muto flying away, with Godzilla watching, and then turning around, and start heading for Hawaii. A CNN anchor could have been shown saying, "What the hell is that thing?". In the meantime, have Muto #2 come out, and SHOW it trashing Vegas, then go back to Hawaii, where "round 1" of the Godzilla/Muto fights happens, with Godzilla beating up the Muto pretty badly, and then having the military screw him up by lobbing shells at him, and the Muto gets away, and heads for the US mainland. Godzilla heads for Frisco, while Muto #2 and then Muto #1 screw around, totally trashing the city, laying their eggs, etc, along with destroying the Navy pretty easily with a lot of stuff blowing up. About the time they finished off the military, Godzilla shows up and the big finale happens, with a similar outcome to what happens in the movie that was actually made. I think just cutting the Ford screen time alone would have made a better movie. Putting a better actor in the Ford part would have, too. If the Godzilla/Muto fights could have been done better, in an escalating way, it would have pretty much erased all the negatives of the Ford character and all the "soldiering", but it didn't. All in all, a disappointment.