Unbelievably bad

Rating: 1/10 (29 August 2014)

As is my habit, I'm going to make a short list of everything I hated about this movie.
1) Everything.
That was too easy, let's try again.
1) Appalling acting. The main 'character' seems to have had his face frozen before filming, so his only expression is one of bemused disinterest.
2) The military can see that guns and bombs have no effect on the monsters, so they continue to attack them with bombs and guns. Once they learn that the Muto has an EMP weapon, they continue to use electrical equipment. In fact...
3) Everything the military did was so half assed and poorly researched that I found myself shouting at the TV screen. Special forces making all that noise, and their torches shining all over the place? A HALO jump without proper preparation? An naval OED luitenant with HALO experienceand training? We don't have time to open the casing of the bomb, sowe'll carry it through the city for a couple of miles and put it on a boat. yeah, that will be much faster and not dangerous or stupid at all. Not with that huge monster that feeds on nuclear bombs searching for it after we killed her entire brood.
4) The bomb, we are told, makes the one that levelled Hiroshima look like a firecracker, goes off about 2 miles offshore and causes absolutely no damage to anything at all. Either it was a dud, or we have to believe that American engineering, and indeed Americans, are impervious to things like blasts, fireballs, concussion or radiation. Not like those Japanese weaklings. USA! USA!
5) When the monsters reach SF, we see Godzilla wade through the water which is just about up to his knees, but then a Muto dives in head first and disappears for a few seconds.
6) EMP would have no effect on a petrol or diesel powered engine. It might stop the ignition, but once its running then it is mechanical rather than electrical.
7) Have you any idea how heavy a nuclear warhead is? You don't just pick it up and carry it around. But hey, one American soldier saves the world, yet again.
8) Godzilla. OK, its hard to make a big monster look real, I understand that, but to make it so flat and unthreatening must take at least as much effort. it remeinded me of the old Chewits advert half the time, the other half I was wondering where he/she was. There is about a minutes worth of Godzilla screen time thats worth watching, the rest he/she is either playing hide and seek with battleships of sneaking through the city, hunting Motus for some reason thats never adequately explained.
9) The bomb. Yes, again. That really angered me. When we first see the Motu nest, its about 150 feet down a crater, but the marines just appear at the bottom and somehow manage to appear back at the top a few minutes later despite carrying a live and armed nuclear missile.
I could go on and on about flimsy plot lines, the cardboard cut out cliché cast and absurd twists etc, but the whole film would fall apart. This int a creature feature, nor is it a thriller or an action movie. it is entirely fraudulent and deserves to be erased from history. 1/10