The movie is a teaser until the last 20 minutes

Rating: 1/10 (20 July 2014)

This was a colossal disappointment. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't expecting to see a good movie when I went into Godzilla. I was expecting a Michael Bay style movie: loud noises, explosions, awesome effects, and not too heavy on the plot. I was looking for basic, cheap, and entertaining. I got none of that. Not only does the movie contain horrible acting from all but the most minor characters, critical plot holes, and teases the audience by threatening to show us what we came to see, but when it finally delivers what we wanted all along (a good classic monster fight), its horrifically underwhelming and poorly done. My biggest problems with the movie are that it cuts away right when it starts to show something that might relieve us from the tedium of bad characters, a weak script, and bad plot. This is slightly a spoiler but not really, but the first two times that two monsters actually engage in combat, the scene cuts away immediately and we never see it again. It skips what we actually want to see. It's the equivalent of watching porn but skipping all the parts that don't have clothes on. That kind of stuff belongs in the teasers and the advertisements so you can get people to come watch the movie, pay for it, and then they get to see the rest. Instead, after you've spent money, you still get teased and toyed with like you have to buy the super premium to see the good stuff. This movie just plain sucks. I talked about how it lacks general monster mayhem, so you would hope it at least makes up for it with an interesting plot, topics, references, etc. Nope. Throughout all of the perilous situations, there was not a single moment where I actually cared whether characters lived or died. They simply weren't engaging and nothing they did mattered. All in all, there's nothing here worth seeing. It's a monster movie that shows minimal monsters, minimal cool things in general, and maximum tedium and boredom. It lacks the qualities of a good movie, and it doesn't then make up for it with the noise and explosions of a summer flick. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch Pacific Rim again so I can remember what its like to see a movie that shows what it tells audiences it's going to show, namely monsters fighting.