A long wait for a small fight

Rating: 4/10 (16 May 2014)

When news got out that we would get a 2014 version of godzilla I was stoked, the trailers looked fantastic and I may have let my excitement get the better of me by raising my expectations.
This movie is not bad but it is not great, the story revolves around such a bland character stuck in a basic disaster movie plot of "I have to find my family" blah blah blah you can pretty much guess the rest. This story is dragged on the entire movie and when the big fights between godzilla and the MUTOs are teased.. we get a cut back to the uninteresting story of the bland soldier and his blander wife. The main actors do an alright job with the characters given to them but we see little of the support characters who would be much more interesting.
The big fight at the end is pretty awesome but we see very little of it as again it cuts to the human side, godzilla rather than being the lesser of two evils is turned into just a typical good guy (or monster I don't know) with no reason at all which kind of ruins it.
Over all the movie is pretty mediocre, the cgi is pretty amazing but scenes mostly just consist of dark shadows in smoke. Supporting characters steal the show but we see little of them, the main story is so boring and cliché at times the main fight becomes trying to stay awake rather than godzilla and mutos. I hate to say it but this movie is a let down, badly paced and dull but with one great godzilla fight at the end that is over far too soon.