IMDb got me to see this movie, I was disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2014)

Even though this movie had just 3000 ratings a couple of days ago, at 9.3 I wanted to see this movie. I work at a cinema so I see almost every movie, but when they're rated high on IMDb i'm prone to watch it on the premiere night. I was so bummed out by this movie. I kept watching and waiting for it to get excited, but that never happened.
The movie starts out slowly with a dramatic first ten minutes where Joe Brody, portrayed by Bryan Cranston loses his wife in a tragic monster attack in a nuclear facility. This did set a good tone for the movie even though it was a little cliché. I was really waiting for what was going to happen next. Then the movie unexpectedly fast forwarded 15 years, leaving us wondering what had happened.
It turned out Joe's son Ford Brody, became an army man, which seems only to be because they had to give him a roll where he would be in the midst of all the monster madness. When he visits his obsessed dad in Japan it turns out his dad was right all along and the monsters are conspiracies are real. Conveniently right when father and son visit the site where the MUTO is hatching it does actually hatch. Okay so that can be a coincidence, but that was the first annoyance of the movie.
The most terrible death scene When the monster escapes the island Joe is injured badly and we see him going into cardiac arrest on the chopper. This is where you would normally expect a scene of him dying right then and there, but the scene is cut, as if it's just not important. Then on the aircraft carrier we get to the scene where Ford sees his dad in a body bag... Just like that Joe is dead. Almost as if Bryan Cranston was used for this role, just because of his fame in Breaking Bad, to lure audience to this movie.
So now we are left with Ford, a character that hardly has any lines, and survives several dangerous encounters by insane luck. Also it seems that whenever the MUTO's encounter him they take their time to move slow and observe the situation, while at other times they just devour groups of people in a blink of an eye.
Goodguy Godzilla I am not that familiar with the Godzilla stories, but I expected Godzilla to be the dangerous monster he is perceived as, it didn't bother me he was there to protect us, but I lost the feeling that this movie was about Godzilla at all.
General flaws and absurdities. This movie goes in to my top 10 most absurd situations of all time. To start with the mechanical nuclear bomb. This bomb has been made so that no EMP would render it useless, however the shear force of the MUTO on the device should destroy its clockwork mechanism or at least make it unusable for detonation. It's fairly easy to disarm a nuclear bomb by just taking it apart, but it kept intact. Lucky coincidence? Maybe.
Then there was the moment Ford broke a piece of glass which alerted one of the MUTO's which became very angry at him, because it somehow knew he set its children ablaze. Now how the hell could it hear that in a city that's in flames? There would be noise everywhere, but it can here a broken piece of whatever? Again the monster took its time before wanting to attack which again led to Ford's survival.
Trivial human life With hundreds to thousands of people dying all around in this movie, why is one kids life so important. You see people flying around dying all over the place, but that little child has to survive, because he is in the male protagonist's proximity. That's just too trivial and in this movie all the sentiment seemed like it had to be in there, but it was for no good reason. It's a Godzilla movie, not a romantic comedy.
Too much coincidence - Joe and Ford to be witness for MUTO's escape - Ford to be on the train that is attacked by a MUTO - Ford's son to be on the bridge that is attacked - Ford's son and wife to be in the city the fight takes place - Ford to be the only one who survives the attack on the bridge
I think I might be able to go on with this movie for a while, but it just disappointed me so much, while I was looking out for this so much.