Disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2014)

Godzilla was a movie that I wanted to love, believe it when I say , I sat in the theater fully engaged within the story. The opening 30 minutes was superb and really built the suspense that kept me on the edge of my seat! Bryan Cranston's acting was amazing as I expected it to be, he nearly brought me to tears when expressing the loss of his wife and the will to know the truth to Ken Watanabe's character. And when his character dies, I really felt the movie was only going to get better. I thought, hell if they are going to kill the main focus of attention presented in the previews other than Godzilla then this movie will surely become an amazing experience unseen in the mysterious trailers and previews.
The design , sound, and purpose of the MUTO's were excellent, they really did seem to be terrifying.
People had fears that the story would be too americanized and I can safely say it was not, as the first hour or so of the movie took place in Japan. The characters explained his Japanese roots and that they dropped atomic bombs to try to kill him, which did not work. It really had a ominous feel to it all, the anticipation for seeing Godzilla was huge at this point. It really made you feel like when we do finally see him , he will be featured in an epic scene cause destruction on a colossal scale.
The suspense that has been built for about an hour has led to a scene where the flying MUTO wrecks havoc on Honolulu, the excitement is real. Godzilla makes his grand appearance causing a massive tsunami. Here it is, the first time we will see the King of Monsters. The camera pans from his foot to his face , he roars. Godzilla's design was amazing, held true to the original Japanese design and his roar was loud and terrifying. And thats it.
This is the point where the movie became a huge let down.
Instead of a grand destructive introduction to Godzilla, the scene is then cut to show a part of the initial battle on TV, which I did like, but it showed nothing more! I do not know why this was thought to be a good decision on the part of the Edwards. If your going to inject humor into an otherwise grand introduction to the most anticipated monster movie of the century why not then show the rest of the battle in real time on camera !! This literally killed the excitement of seeing Godzilla!
A very good example to feel what I am talking about is imagining your watching Jurassic Park and instead of an amazing introduction of the T Rex wrecking havoc , we just see the t Rex roar and the camera cuts to a different scene!
Despite this initial let down , I set there staying loyal to my feelings that this movie will become amazing, seeing the UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF NATURE do what he does best, destroy buildings and indirectly saving humanity by fighting monsters to defend the earth at his own terms.
Nope. What we get next is a scene where Godzilla is swimming ALONG with the Navy .
Then we find out that another MUTO is in the movie , thank god I thought, maybe we will see some destruction.
Nope, what we get is yet another tease, where the monster attacks for a bit on screen and we are left , again , to see the aftermath while it is attacking in the background . A trait that the rest of the movie will follow: focus on humans on screen while monsters are destroying in the background.
We are teased further more throughout the movie with scenes of monsters fighting on t.v. while the camera focuses on the human soap opera.
We have a scene of Godzilla being shot at by battle cruisers and he does nothing but walk away .
We are shown the MUTO terrorizing the city , Godzilla makes another grand appearance , instead of showing the battle , they cut to another scene.
The problem here is not the story, the story is very good ! The problem is the execution . The deliverance. The movie showed many time , clearly , how it could have been amazing, the director had all the skills and tools he needed. But for some reason instead of the neutral unstoppable force of nature that the previews made him out to be. He was simply a "ally" for the American army.
Amazing CGI . Excellent Acting. Good Story . Shitty deliverance .