Godzilla-Popcorn Reporter

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2015)

The movieÂ… Well I gotta admit there are some really good things about this movie. First of all we have a good background story, which is based on the 1954 original and I applaud that. The filming of the scenes from the 1950's is made very well, and I enjoyed that part a lot.
Beside that we have a very good, albeit short, performance by Bryan Cranston who did a great job in the first 30 minutes. Too bad we didn't get a proper showdown with him and Godzilla as that would've been cool. Why couldn't he stay longer, perhaps shoot a bazooka at them and say : Yippe-Ki-Yay!
Now that would be some proper stuff. Besides Cranston's performance, Watanabe does a very good job also.
Another on my plus list is the Godzilla himself. He is really amazing and the way he roars! Very nice visual effects, I was really impressed! It would be also nice if Godzilla was the main character in his own movie too! More screen time also! Shame.
Okay, let's check out the negatives I've found.
First of all, Cranston's screen-time. Big no no. Also, Godzilla screen-time. I've come to watch Godzilla kick ass and roar. Not to see some MUTOs mate and lay eggs everywhere. If I wanted to watch weird people mating and laying eggs, I'd watch Jersey Shore or Big Brother.
The movie really drags out the showdown between Godzilla and the MUTO's. I was really looking forward to them beating seven shades of **** out of each other but every time they started fighting the scenes changed. Sure they were teasing because the main showdown needed to happen at the end. Was the main showdown any good then? It was mediocre at best, sadly. Sure we got some destruction and tail action but there wasn't enough of it for my taste. At least they brought back the atomic-breath from the original Godzilla. That was good.
I get why there was also so much heart tearing human interaction, but the human story doesn't pay off in the movie at all. I didn't feel connected to any of the actors, they didn't deliver the performance they should. It just felt like a drag, I kept wanting for them to sod off so I could see more of that bad ass Godzilla. At one point even, my friend who brought tuna with broccoli to the cinema (yes , he is weird like that), eating with a silverware fork, was also nagging about how they were boring him to tears. He at least had his broccoli.
Also the mistakes in the movie. Oh my, I must have counted more than 20 of them just at that one sitting. Can't wait for Cinema Sins to scour through this movie for a final count. I mean, seriously, a bus stops because a huge pole fell in front of it and then in the next shot after 3 seconds they just drive forward? The pole disappears? Also the A- bomb is set to explode in one hour during which our main actor runs across the entire San Francisco, jumps from an airplane, fights monsters and takes a stroll on a boat. That's a really long hour!
The ending. Why such an abrupt end? Godzilla just sways away into the sea?
Furthermore, don't bother yourself with the 3D version. Aside from some really nice scenery of the forest and helicopters flying around, I don't remember seeing anything that would stun me in 3D. I kinda even forgot I was looking at a movie made in 3D. Meh.
All in all I was not impressed by this movie at all. But because I really liked Godzilla's visuals, and there were some good things in the movie I'll rate this movie a 6/10.