...not even better than the Mathew Broderick version.

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2014)

Leaden. Tonedeaf. That's the 2 word review. Sometimes, Hollywood movies rise above plots that are just strings of clichés that tested well in the 80's, and are subservient to effects budgets and marketing campaigns. Just not in this case. You really want to like this Godzilla movie. Anyone would that grew up on the classic "kaiju" films. Pacific Rim, for all its flaws, was actually fun to watch, and it had all the same elements of this film, just put together in a way that not only meshed as a whole, but also showed Guillermo del Toro's affection for the genre.Hollywood had all the tools to make this a really good film, great directors, amazing effects houses, and yet they chose not to. It just saddens me.