Who in their right mind would fund this masterpiece

Rating: 1/10 (21 May 2014)

Good grief....I'd like to start by saying how much a fail this is. I wanted to swear out loud throughout sitting through this rubbish and took a lot of control to make it to the end.
If I were to go through all the bad points of this film I'd develop RSI, so I'll stick to a fraction of the wrongness.
If you make a monster movie that has huge combatants, it sounds simple but as those involved know only too well, you have so little to work with and you have to work so hard to create a hook for the audience. Effectively, you're on a hiding to nothing because although the audience will undoubtedly have turned up for fight scenes, to keep them engaged in a fight scene without a personal aspect is so, so difficult.
In my view, the fight scenes are a big fail and resorting to the overly abused hacky Hollywood moves just shows how little thought went into this.
The trailers would have you believe that Cranston would have a starring role in this but nope he gets offed pretty quickly and you find yourself at the mercy at the furrowed browed, Kick-Ass dude. Now I don't know if it was a miscasting, poor scripting or bad acting but it is definitely two of the above as this guy just irritated. As for Cranston, it's as if he was used as a hook for the audience to show up on the back of Breaking Bad (pretty good). Ken Watanabe's character was like a bewildered eunuch, who's only purpose was to look fearful and say Gowzeewa, a tragic waste of two fine actors right there.
I may be going against the grain on this but the only good acting was contributed by Elizabeth Olsen, whose performance was the only convincing thing in this debacle, it's not a weakness to show how much you love your man, good men rely on that.
I'm getting irritated as I'm writing this so I'm going to wrap it up.
The visual flaws in this film were employed for unbelievably low-brow donkeys that anyone who's IQ is above room temperature will start to get annoyed with these pretty quickly. The fact that the monsters are only being attacked, throughout the film, by divisions of the moron army, who would rather get so close they can punch the monsters rather than hit them from a nice safe distance doesn't put the US forces, again, in a competent light.
Finally (believe there are more but I can't be bothered), the fact that nobody notices a massive stockpile of radioactive waste, along with only a few thousand tonnes of mountainside just go missing, which then adds to the final irritation of the fact that the mutos wrap their eggs around one nuke in a city scape rather than set their nest within the massive stockpile of nuclear material that they have just walked away from, is laughable. Obviously this is just so you can a have a building smashing finale but the entire run up to the final mediocrity alienates the audience so badly that the final fight seems to be a meh affair.
Now if you look around this review you will find a good number of highly positive reviews. Don't believe the hype, they are either fanboys or have something to do with the film, to whatever obscure extent.
This is dire, laughable fair which is simply not good enough....Not even close. I was half expecting a WWE suplex of an mma superman-punch because it wouldn't have detracted any more from the film. If I see those in the sequel I would like to be paid in cash, I don't accept cheques. If you'd like to employ me, I'm not cheap but I can be had.
Ta, ta.