A movie? More like an experience.

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2014)

Let me just say, that I went into this movie absolutely blind, with no clue what it would be about, who would be in it, who directed it, wrote, produced it. I had no recollection of the Godzilla story. All I knew was that Bryan Cranston, the main star of one of my most favorite TV shows, Breaking Bad, was going to be in it. And that was it.
Now, I've never ever went into a movie blind, but I wanted to see if I'd get a different feeling, a different opinion of the film, unlike the way I would get my hopes up from the totally mind blowing trailer and footage they've released, and then feeling so disappointed afterward, that I would rate it with a biased opinion. So what would it feel like going into a movie with no opinions... no.. ANYTHING.
And, WOW. Maybe it was just the movie itself, or going in blind, but that was just..WOW. Bryan Cranston was brilliant. The sound effects blew me away, literally took my breath away at certain moments. The CGI was out of this world! Every single scene with Godzilla in it had me thanking God for creating brilliant people to generate such an awe- inspiring thing.
It definitely had its slow moments, I will admit. The main character, Ford (Aaron Johnson), played a military guy to a tee, but I wouldn't have picked him out of a group of navy seals. He had nothing much going for him, as a characters. He wasn't particularly leading any special missions to stop bad things from happening. He was just there, being in the wrong place at the right time, and following the rest of the military groups. I didn't really care if any of the characters died because that's just how weak the development was portrayed. This movie was not a character driven film. This movie relayed heavily on special effect and kick ass monsters and in THAT, they did very well.