A solid start to a new potential franchise

Rating: 7/10 (4 June 2014)

I have never seen the previous Godzilla film but from the trailers I saw this quickly became one of my most anticipated films of the year and even though this film didn't live up to those expectations this is a solid good film. This film stars Bryan Cranston who lives to find out what the scientists are hiding from an accident in the past, this ends up with the King of monsters Godzilla in a huge encounter for the Earth. Now even though the trailers clearly show Bryan Cranston as the lead character and even though he has the most emotional scenes, best acting and best lines in the film he is not the main character but just a supporting character. The lead is actually Aaron-Taylor Johnson and he may be the most boring protagonist of all time as just an average soldier and his wife Elizabeth Olsen's character is no better and just as dull in the film. A good side character is Ken Watanabe's character who provides the exposition for the film and good at doing it. The script doesn't really help these actors and the fact that this film focuses on the soldiers instead of the monsters. However, where this film really gets its style right Godzilla has never been better and he looks better then ever and also his adversaries are also extremely cool. The world that Director Gareth Edwards has created a beautiful looking world which I want to be continued. This film is the ultimate tease and only the action towards the end make up for it and with this awesome action scene that truly saves the film and makes it the really good film that it is. This film has it's problems but I believe they can be fixed easily and hopefully the sequel fixes these and adds to the action to really create a great franchise.