How can they title this Godzilla?

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2014)

Although this remake of Godzilla was a significant improvement over the 1998 film, it still was a disappointment. I will start with the positives:
1) Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe... need I say more? 2) The CGI was beautiful! It was some of the best monsters I have ever seen. Godzilla looked the best he ever has.
Yes, the list is pretty short for the positives. So now the negatives:
1) Other than Cranston and Watanabe, the acting was just awful. Some dialogues just made me cringe. But overall, it is a Godzilla movie; so how much acting is really needed? That brings me to my next point.
2) Where was Godzilla through most of the movie? He is hardly in the movie at all. And when he is about to battle some monsters (I will hold back their names as to not give anything away), the film goes back to unnecessary character development. Then once these useless scenes are over, it goes back to the city to show it absolutely destroyed. The monster battles were the best parts of Godzilla movies. Why would they cut these out entirely?
3) The food source of the monsters was absolutely ridiculous. I think this was just an attempt to bring the movie back to the US. Stop trying to Americanize films and just film them where they rightly should occur.
Overall, this movie was incredibly boring due to the excessive character development that was absolutely unnecessary. I never cared about any of the characters. And for a movie about Godzilla, he is only in it for about 10 minutes of the two hours. What a waste.