A Very Dark Movie

Rating: 6/10 (23 August 2014)

I love monsters. I love sci-fi. I love horror. I love destruction movie. I love epic movie. And I love Godzilla, the monster itself. In those expectation, Godzilla was supposed to be my epic movie, second only to Superman-Batman.
But, not going into spoiler, this movie is just way too dark. Not in the movie tone. Literally. Dark. Darker than Dark Knight. Darker than almost horror movie, bar The Blair Witch Project.So dark that I almost yelled. While I understand maybe the movie makers wanted it to be fearsome and maybe did not want to show some brutality in it, the movie was too dark for audiences. We almost could not tell what was going on. This is a movie, not a radio show.
Also, when I was expecting an epic monster fight scene, it suddenly zoomed into a TV news showing a glimpse of that fight. Now I came to conclusion that they wanted to save budget in the visual effect department.
This movie has the potential to be a great experience. Just if, the director did not shy in buying some lights or candles. Again, way too dark.