Special effects but no movie

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2016)

A waste of $160,000,000, yes the special effects were good, but the monsters fighting Godzilla were unconvincing and had no real menace,apart from their sheer size and ability to wipe out the national grid and crush everything. Godzilla was co-star to the CGI and the human actors were bland, two dimensional with less empathy than the monsters!
What a pointless use of the lovely and talented Juliette Binoche, also Ken Watanabe must have been told by the director 'just look grim and depressed, but don't act or you will show up Aaron Taylor Johnston and the rest of the cast!
And so depressing, no light, humorous relief or depth of relationship development; which made the 1998 version so much fun and allowed the tense bits to be more gripping and scary. The direction, music and acting created very little tension or atmosphere apart from the huge amount of dust and smoke that obscured the monsters in the action sequences. Where did the blue flame come from? , It was so effective, why didn't Godzilla use it earlier? Big budget, small outcome.