Pedestrian Summer Fare

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2014)

This is not a great dialogue movie This is not a great action movie This is not a great character movie It is mediocre on all counts
I saw this in XD with 3D and that is the only reason it got the fifth star.
The first 45 minutes are very good - then they pull a "Deep Blue Sea" on the only true actor in the movie and it falls apart.
The script and dialogue lacked warmth, it lacked the humor we enjoy in most blockbuster action movies, it lacked the grittiness of an actual disaster movie. At no time after the first 10 minutes is any child, animal or human being that the movie focuses on in any real peril...unless your last name is Cranston or you are a "bad" monster.
The Godzilla monster itself lives up to the hype of being an overweight lumbering mass of destruction that we immediately turn to as our savior when the only single option our US military can come up with fails. (That's right folks, we have no planes capable of transporting a nuclear missile/warhead - only a single train)
Nevermind that these monsters are a threat to other sovereign nations as well, The multi- national team that works with these anomalies and hides them from the world immediately falls under the oversight of the U.S. Military when an initial containment field fails.
Pacific Rim was a better film, heck even Battleship might have been better (no, not really)
Skip this and go see Amazing Spider-Man 2 a second time