Pleasantly Surprised

Rating: 9/10 (16 May 2014)

I'll be honest, I had low expectations here. This movie was hyped, but I expected another poorly made, badly acted, mindless explosion/destruction/monster fighting/pacific rim nonsense. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe are both awesome in their acting. Godzilla himself is a slow build, but once this movie gets going it really gets going. The final battle is one of the greatest monster movie fight scenes I've ever seen, and they do a good job of giving this movie heart. Well done. The only reason I don't give it a perfect 10 is because some of the explanations of HOW gigantic lizards and bug-things exist aren't really convincing, and much of the Physics and logic is off. But who cares? It's freaking Godzilla! Also, speaking of him, he looks more like the classic monster than the abomination that was the 1998 Matthew Broderick flick. It was a nice nod to his origins while the amazing advances of modern CGI made him a million times as scary. I freaking loved it