Unimaginably bad

Rating: 1/10 (21 May 2014)

There should be a couple of things in a movie to satiate an average sci- fi fan and those are not rocket surgery. Throw some fiction type action, destruction, combat (preferably close) into the fray and all other things are secondary if you want to keep that audience seated until the end of the movie. This movie fails on all of it.
There is yet to be an explanation about how the titular monster only appears around 15 minutes during a 120 minute long title and I include the scenes where he can be seen only partially, possibly only legs or spikes. There can't be any slight excuse or justification to take Godzilla away from the majority of the movie and filling it with worthless primary and side characters of whom the audience do not give a damn about. All human characters seems like to have learned to act in kindergarten and not gone further ever since. Unimaginably poor acting except Bryan Cranston (who dies at the beginning of the movie!) is all the audience meets when the expectations spike to see Godzilla or other monster wreaking havoc on city.
You won't see Godzilla until the second part of the movie, and even after that everything is poor. Action scenes are not bad but they are so scarce and dark. Speaking of which, why it has to be so DARK? Like, all combat scenes, especially the grand ones take part in night time, in cloudy weather and a powerless city bombarded by EMP blast(which is not also a big deal visually) and two VERY DARK monsters wrestle in the ruins in VERY awkward motions? I mean come on, the only illumination seen in the final scenes of the movie is Godzilla's flame breath (which is used only TWICE and only takes around 4-5 seconds in the FULL MOVIE). There is nothing special about the 3D either, in fact there is no 3D at all. I don't know whey they bothered to film this in 3D, but I honestly wonder why did they film this puny excuse of a Godzilla movie in the first place!
Oh and did I mention that there are only THREE combat scenes in the entire movie and TWO of them actually cut short before they just began, the first one is seen in a television, second one is cut short right before real action begins in a clear daylight and third one is the only combat scene, which is incredibly dark like I've mentioned above.
Characters are poor, storytelling is INCREDIBLY bad, there is no proper background to the other monsters in the movie, let alone Godzilla himself. Plot holes are enormous, like humans intend to detonate a nuke 32 kilometers offshore but instead localizing on Golden Gate Bridge! Also someone in the army stating that "Hiroshima nukes are toys compared to this one we plan to detonate" but that goddamn bomb explodes only miles away from the San Francisco shoreline. Let's say that people and the city survived the initial blast, what about the radioactive fallout of a bomb with that magnitude?
Finalizing, everything is wrong and illogical about this movie. Logic is irrelevant in a proper sci-fi movie which achieves to entertain a usual sci-fi audience, but this thing is not a good Godzilla movie, not a good sci-fi movie, not a good movie at all and I actually detest myself to call this abomination as a movie because there are so many other good examples in sci-fi category are actually called "movies", this thing must be called something else.
Also I have my sympathies for Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe to be included in this monstrosity.