Godzilla falls short

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2014)

I'm just back from the premiere and this is my initial thought. The film does not seem to get the feeling out of Godzilla. We don't feel for the monster like in King Kong. The movie is a terrible mess (not to say king kong is not). Three monsters fight, Vegas is destroyed, San Fran is destroyed, random trains are destroyed. Bryan Cranston is the father figure and his son (Aaron Johnson) don't have a good presence or connection. I believe Aaron Johnson was not the man for this part. He was to jar-head like and not bomb-diffuser like. And Bryan Cranston, I don't know why you did this movie. Are you just trying to make as much money as possible? Look, this is a typical monster movie. Is it worth a movie ticket? That depends on who you are. There is nothing redeeming with this Godzilla movie. We end up rooting for Godzilla in the end against these other two monsters, but why? Godzilla does not even have fire breath. It's nuclear blue. Why didn't the movie make the presence of Godzilla more of a backstory? Is he protecting Earth? The movie brushed over nature qualities of animals but again, really missed the opportunity to make something great. Many many people can make a movie, but only a few can make good movies. Pacific Rim was surprising to me. I dug that movie. This though, this is like Transformers 3.