"We call him... Gojira".

Rating: 8/10 (14 October 2014)

I had a revelation as my summary line above was uttered by actor Ken Watanabe. If you use a low and raspy guttural voice, infuse it with a Japanese accent, and say it real fast, the word 'Gojira' sounds a lot like 'Godzilla'. Seriously, you should try it. And what's really cool, it also works in reverse. You can make 'Godzilla' sound like 'Gojira'.
Well I became a Godzilla fan way back when I was about nine years old in 1960 watching the New York based Million Dollar movie. Any movie that was featured for the week came on every single evening at 5:00 P.M. and this is one of the few flicks I watched five nights in a row. Now I don't know that I could say the same thing about this modern day remake, but I'm a traditionalist at heart anyway. For what it's worth, I thought the actual monster in this movie was pretty well done, but gee, he really wasn't on screen very long. Those mantis looking MUTO creatures were a little too metallic looking for my taste, I never took them as a real threat to the King of the Monsters.
No need to get too long winded here, I see the film has it's detractors and it's fans. In picking up this movie I was just looking for a couple hours of simple diversion and on that score it delivered. There was one great takeaway I got from the story, and I can't remember who it was uttered the line, but in commenting on the attempts by authorities in the movie to bring the creatures under control or defeat them, I was reminded of adherents of global warming hysteria. To them I would also offer - "The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around".