King of the Monsters Forever!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2014)

I must admit, I'm one of the rare ones who liked America's first attempt in adapting Gojirasan back in 1998. I saw it at the movies and it was awesome. But after seeing the 2014 version, I realize now how much that other one really sucked.
This movie goes further than just paying homage to the originally Giant monster. It's almost works as a reboot or even a sequel to the classic monster franchise. With CGI they manage to make the monster look similar to the guy in the monster suit, but at the same time showed animal movements. They gave us the best of both worlds.
After now 60 years, it's hard for anyone to be frighten of the greatest monster hero ever, yet the filmmakers managed to show how Terrifying being so low on the food chain can be. They did this by exploiting a world post 9/11. It's not hard for any one of us to imagine what it's like for a city to be devastated suddenly by an unknown menace, than your fears to be escalated when you realize what it is. Godzilla was not treated like a cartoon like they did in 98, people died in this flick attempting to battle the forces of nature. Lucky we have the troops to save us.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson really Kicked-Ass (who got that?) as the human protagonist whose story we follow through the movie. Still rippling with the guns he developed playing a super hero, he was a good combination of action and emotions as a soldier more interested with reuniting with his family, after a long stretch in the service, than battling a monster, but a soldier's got to do what a soldier's got to do. The movie has two crazed scientist in Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe who interesting enough, role in the movie was similar to that of Raymond Burr in the American English dub of the original film. I do wish that Elisabeth Olsen's role in the movie as a nurse and soldier's wife was a little better as I've become a fan of hers.
The movie also had an interesting surprise that I was not expecting so I will not be the one to say just in case you don't know, but like I said, the film acts more like a sequel than an adaptation.
First Pacific Rim and now Godzilla. The Giant monster is smashing and bashing it's way back into movie screens with a vengeance. Go see it in IMAX.