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Rating: 1/10 (19 May 2014)

Here's the thing, giant monster / character movies always have an issue incorporating humans into the plot, some do it well, others not so much. Godzilla does a terrible job of this. Essentially the humans only cause problems for themselves and have little to no impact on the actually story. In fact, the plot of the movie would be immeasurably improved if you only watched the movie from Godzilla's perspective which would mean watching him move under the ocean for 95% of the 130 minute runtime of the film. The writing is terrible and many of the actors are underutilized, and although I can accept some disconnect between reality and a sci-fi movie, it's like the writers knew nothing about science.
::Spoiler Alert:: In case anyone doesn't know, an EMP or Electromagnetic Pulse, disrupts electrical equipment, not stopping them, in the small scale. At higher intensities what will happen is capacitors and electrical equipment will be damaged due to the large surge of electrical energy. Meaning if the lights go off, they will not come back on until the equipment is replaced that has been damaged, they will not just work again after a set period of time. Also it will cause damage or outright kill anyone within the affected area as well depending on the type of energy that creates it. Okay, sci-fi has pretty much taken EMP's and turned them into something they are not, it's propagating ignorance, but it's a movie it's fine. But why the hell would an ancient creature evolve to have an EMP pulse? What would be nature's justification for developing such a weapon as the movie states that it will only turn off all electricity in a set area for a little bit? If nature was so concerned about the giant creatures that humans have absolutely no method of hurting even with electricity, why didn't they evolve to have giant spikes and anti-atomic breath armor? Which brings me to my next point. Why doesn't Godzilla come out the gate with the atomic breath? Does it take days for the LEDs in his tail and spine to light up? I mean obviously there would be lights that come on from the tip of his tail to his head prior to being able to shoot fire from his mouth, by why doesn't he pre-charge them or something? Here he is fighting for mankind (I don't know why) and he starts by slapping them with his little T-Rex arms and unsuccessfully biting at them. Apparently he just wanted to tenderize them before burning them, taking a nap, and then returning to the sea until such a time that monsters rise up to threaten mankind again or something. I really don't know what Godzilla's motives where, Ken Watanabe kept claiming that he was some force of nature that balanced the scales by making sure he was the only monster which he explains by telling us that "man doesn't understand nature", but it seems pretty flimsy. The army is functionally inept. To me this is the most realistic thing in the movie. "We need to draw out the monsters by setting off a small nuke, which they will be attracted to, and then kill them with a big nuke. So let's put those nukes on a train because we obviously have no planes as we keep flying them over the monsters until they use their magical EMP leg and disable the planes thus destroying them." Of course the train then gets attacked and the little nuke gets ate, because you know, it was the most delicious nuke in the whole country as evident by "Mothra" being drawn right to it. "Oh noes we lost our little nuke, better arm the big one on the coast of San Francisco and set it to 1 and ½ hours before we drive the boat to its destination." Wait what? "Oh noes the monsters stole our big nuke and are now using it as an incubator, and when it explodes it will kill untold millions of people! We need to send a team in to disarm it!" Now this is clearly just giving the humans something to do. No one cares about the plot at this point they just want to see the stupid monsters fight as they have been teasing us with out of focus, corner shots of 2 second battles up to this point. AHHH okay I can't focus on this terrible movie anymore, this was obviously a money grab for the actors and the studio, like it if you want, or save the $15+ and skip this syfy monster iguana vs giant bee big budget piece of garbage.