Awful, dreadful, never get those two hours back

Rating: 3/10 (20 September 2014)

Quick synopsis: Bryan Cranston plays an engineer who figures out that the meltdown at the nuclear power plant where he works wasn't a nuclear meltdown. His theory is that the authorities are hiding something, but he doesn't know what.
Fifteen years later, his son (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) plays a bomb disposal Navy man and finds out that the authorities were hiding monsters, and now they're awake and ready to attack.
This movie destroys the ideas of the original film, and I found that to be disturbing. The original Godzilla was a warning against nuclear war, but in this film, nuclear war is kind of besides the point.
Mr. Taylor-Johnson and Ms. Olsen don't react well to green screens and to each other. I thought they were both pretty wooden. The special effects were fine, but the story just dragged on without too much action. And the music was bombastic and there was a lot of "catching", where the music is aligned to the visuals too much.
Don't waste your time on this snooze fest.