Big budget effects do not a blockbuster story make

Rating: 5/10 (2 June 2014)

When I went into the theater to see this film, I was already worried. People had already been making comments before the release about how it would be so much better than the '98 version Roland Emmerich made. To which I reply... Were you guys doped or something when you wrote that stuff? Sure the new Gojira looked awesome, but you only got to see all of him during the fight in Frisco, and even then it was mostly snippets of him punching or tail-whacking the monster bugs - he should've had a full-body shot by the time he'd gotten to Hawaii, in my opinion. Also, if the father died because of the military's idiotic attempts to cover things up, shouldn't the son be angry with them over it? I think there's a lot more they could've done, which either for reasons unfathomable to me, they didn't attempt - Me personally, I would've loved to see the son give the big lizard an angry talking to to get him motivated again after he got knocked out by the big bugs, but then he probably wouldn't have understood him anyways. All in all, I'm thinking this new Godzilla doesn't have any reason to say its any better than the 98 Godzilla, because I don't think they give you a real glimpse into the big guy's true soul - all you get is a much of monsters smacking each other around while humans run around like ants trying not to get squished.