Aaron Taylor Johnson with a small side of Godzilla

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2014)

There is a fantastic Godzilla movie here....Unfortunately its mostly left in the background and you only get glimpses of it. For the rest of the time you're focused on Ford played by Aaron Taylor Johnson aka Kickass. His character is a army bomb diffuser or disposer I cant recall which one for sure. He has been separated from his wife after going on a risky trip with his estranged father played by Bryan Cranston. Now he is trying to get home but he's stuck in between 3 giant monsters all duking it out. I failed to take much enjoyment from the humans in this movie and the star of the show was present so little I couldn't get much enjoyment from him either. I felt like the movie kept teasing me and teasing me, showing you brief glimpses of Godzilla and showing you a few seconds of a fight here and there. The method would've been fine if the final battle was epic enough to justify all the teasing. Unfortunately the true finale of the movie didn't reward my patience the way I would've hoped. The special effects here are amazing and Godzilla looks so awesome. And you need to watch this in IMAX to truly get submerged into the sheer scope of this movie. There are defiantly hints at a sequel and a possible reference to the next monster to show up but ultimately this movie left me feeling like I had a boring orgasm after 2 hours of foreplay. I came home and wanted to watch Cloverfield which in my opinion is a superior monster movie. In Cloverfield even with the lack of the monster I cared enough about the humans thanks to the filming style to still really enjoy it. Godzilla didn't give me enough monster and it gave me a so so human story. I cant help but feel a little underwhelmed but this is still a great movie and there is a lot of fun to be had.