The adventures of idiotic, boring people with a quick cameo of Godzilla

Rating: 3/10 (8 September 2014)

The trailers made me think this was gonna be good, interesting, with some thought put into the script. It was none of those things.
The script was completely idiotic all the way through. All the human characters, every last one of them, were stupid and annoying. I hated them, couldn't stand them. It was one face palm after another, at all the stupid things they said and did. Unfortunately, it turns out, that's what the majority of this movie is about, showing us what all these boring, annoying people are up to.
The paper thin, useless human characters wouldn't be such a big problem, if the movie lived up to its title and gave us a movie about Godzilla. But this movie is 95% about the people, and only 5% about the titular monster. Sure, the 5% of Godzilla scenes are good, but if 95% of your movie stinks, you've got huge problems.
When they finally give us a glimpse of Godzilla, things pick up, especially when Godzilla and MUTO are about to fight, but then suddenly they cut to a kid on a sofa! After a soul crushingly boring first hour spent with some of the most annoying characters I've ever seen in a movie, your film is on the verge of maybe, just maybe, having the first good scene, and instead you give us a shot of a kid on a sofa! Who thought this was a good idea?
At that point it became clear the whole film itself was designed to be just as annoying as all the characters in it.
The HALO jump about 1 hour 30 minutes into the movie is one of the only bright spots. It's an interesting looking scene with a good atmosphere. Unfortunately it's short, and has absolutely nothing to do with the tone of the rest of the film.
Finally, in the end, they give us maybe 5 minutes of Godzilla vs. the MUTO's. But it's way too little, way too late.
I read somewhere here, that they modeled the teasing of Godzilla on Jaws. What they SHOULD'VE copied from Jaws, is how to give us interesting and likable main characters we can care about, if that's who you want us to spend 95% of your movie watching. To call the family "Brody" in this film, was an insult to Jaws.