This movie gives so much more than you would expect.

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2014)

What do you expect from a monster movie? Well, monsters, devastation and human casualties of course. What I didn't expect was a whole new use of historic events, an explanation how nature has its order to restore things, casualties that did actually make me emotional and a sympathy for Gojira (as the Japanese call Godzilla) who doesn't turn out to be the bad one.
Yes, from the trailers I saw before this movie I was intrigued, because I love monster movies and I've been told this would be a classic Gojira and not the dinosaur-lizard we saw in the previous blockbuster. The trailers put you on the wrong foot thinking what this story is about, they didn't show the other monsters (yes, there are other over-sized evil monsters roaming the earth!) – they didn't spoil my movie experience like so many other movie trailers do, where you have seen the entire movie already within 30 seconds.
Add some pretty good acting, a good character build, a believable story, great special effects and cgi and you have a winner. Maybe the only disappointment in the movie for me was casting Ken Watanabe as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa. Compared to the rest of the cast he was just not good enough. Luckily his part is small so I could accept it. I did understand the choices his character made, but his acting didn't sell it as well as it should have done. He is after all the one that should lead you into sympathizing with Gojira. While Aaron Taylor-Johnson (my, how he worked on that body!) only needs one look and gets that sympathy done immediately. We should really keep an eye out for this guy, I expect a lot from him and so far he delivers in every movie I've seen him in.
I think the filmmakers did a great job with this movie. Gojira rules.