What a rancid disappointment!

Rating: 2/10 (24 May 2014)

Contains spoilers!!! Was everyone hoping this new take was going to be to the famous Japanese monster, what "Batman begins" was to Batman? Because it really isn't! What a rancid disappointment it actually is. How could they have genuinely messed this up again?! I don't even know where to begin?
For starters I should probably ask what the hell is wrong with the "critics" that have been praising this disaster for being way better than the 1998 one? Thank God for websites where us normal folk can share our opinions. What exactly about this movie makes up for Ronald Emmerichs widely panned (though it too was bad) 1998 "Godzilla" exactly? From all I can see, these new guys have avoided the mistakes that movie made, in favour of ideas that are too obviously bad for even Ronald Emmerich to have made!
"Godzilla 2014" promised us a Godzilla for the 21st Century. One that would look more like the original, fight other monsters, and even breath his infamously fiery breath! And on top of that a recently rediscovered great actor was hired (Bryan Cranston) to hopefully add some human drama to the proceedings.
So, what is this?!! (The Rest of this review contains unavoidable spoilers, that I have to include because I am THAT annoyed with this movie) Not only is Cranston "disposed off" early on. Too focus on the dorky adventures of the Wide eyed Mathew Broderick style kid from "Kick-ass." But just when I thought that they were making way for the real (giant lizard) star of the movie. HE BARELY FEATURES!!! Yes, there ARE giant monsters here. But I want Godzilla in a Godzilla movie! and I'm sure the fans and a majority of everyone else wants that too!
What really makes these huge glaring errors unforgivable in my opinion though, is the way in which this flick blatantly teases its audience into thinking our giant lizard is going to appear/fight these other monstrous beasts time and again, without actually doing it until the very end. Though the special effects are amazing I must agree. This doesn't matter when they're amazing in the wrong places!
The one I blame for this Godzilla mess (perhaps too much) is director Gareth Edwards. Hired off the back of the critically praised, though itself, dismally boring "Monsters." This guy seems to like leaving what we want from the movie till the last 5 minutes. Well, he's at least done it to me twice now, and I don't wish for him to do it a third time. He's already getting added to my most hated list. Hopefully his success is short lived after this film, and no doubt an M Night Shyamalan style career beckons.
Godzilla meanwhile, will no doubt have further adventures following the frankly depressing success of this one. He gets hailed as a hero at the end of the film for trashing the place, so maybe he'll come back and cause some proper destruction next time eh?