Frustrating but watchable (warning, spoilers)

Rating: 4/10 (27 May 2014)

Straight away I would like to say that this movie was a let-down for me, but being on a giant hype train pretty much made that inevitable anyway. Being let down by this movie didn't surprise me, but the way it let me down did. It wasn't the lack of constant action that bored me, but rather the lack of a human element. The first 20- 30 minutes of the film is very promising, then the only character I felt connected to died suddenly, and I was left with a stale, soulless cast of forgettable characters, who are merely there to push the plot forward. The film presented some cool concepts, and some of the fight scenes near the end looked exceptional, but I didn't feel drawn into the film because I didn't like or know anyone in the film, so I didn't care about their fate, so nothing mattered to me. And what things the characters did do were very stupid and illogical. Why did they put the bomb on a train and not straight away take it by helicopter like they did later? Why did they arm the bomb before moving it out to sea? Why did they take Bryan Cranston's character straight to their top secret base where the monster is held captive in the open for all to see? How did they not spot, or at least not feel the tremors, of the monster escaping the underground nuclear dump? Now, I'm not normally a person to pick at plot holes, but that's because I'm normally engrossed in a film to the point of suspension of disbelief. But this film was so cold, devoid of emotion and so full of characters talking about how "clever" the plot is and how "complicated" it is to take the monster down, that all I had left to focus on was the plot. And the ending was the nail in the coffin for me. This way it shows a news broadcast patronisingly saying something along of the lines of "Our hero?", showing Godzilla walking back into the ocean and then the film cutting off abruptly. I actually laughed in disbelief. I felt insulted. I'm glad the film was made in the way it brought Godzilla back, and it wasn't a bad film; the special effects were impressive and the intro was set up nicely. But the film wasn't good either. It had the potential to be so much more. Seeing as they were talking about how the monsters could wipe humanity off Earth, they didn't show a lot of suffering. This film, to me anyway, was boring.