"we call him... AWESOME!!! (sorry. i mean Godzilla)"

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2014)

Being a fan of monster movies i always go into these films with high hopes. sometimes i walk out of the cinema expectedly disappointed and sometimes i walk out feeling satisfied. Godzilla i immediately got hyped for because i was dying to see if it could be worse than the Roland Emmerich one. but after seeing the first trailer i was intensely surprised at the first 20 seconds of that trailer.
i went into this movie really exited and of course the outcome wasn't what i wanted but what i knew it would be. i'm not saying that i predicted the ending i mean that i thought the movie looked good but i wasn't expecting "the greatest movie of the year" type thing because the film clearly is not.
first of all i will say that the cast of the movie is great but my only casting problem was Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Not that i am saying he's a bad actor i think he's a great actor but his character was just an emotionless statue. from the start of the movie i was seeing a lot of emotional entanglement with Brian Cranston but that's where i got my biggest disappointment of the movie. after we get through his great performance he gets killed about a half hour in and that really disappointed me because he was doing such a great job at solving this mystery but even when he gets killed his own son is barley showing any emotion at all. i will say i liked Kim Wantanabe's character but i didn't like his acting. every scene he appears in he has the exact same expression on his face i am being serious, nearly every scene.
but onto what everyone is talking about in this movie, Godzilla. the biggest complaint i have heard is that Godzilla is hidden from you but i was glad that they were keeping Godzilla away for a while because i didn't want them to just be throwing huge monster fights on screen, no you can leave that to Pacific Rim. if you were getting the big monster fight from the mid section of the movie there would be nothing to look forward to at the end and the wait is worth it because of the climax of the Mutos life.
the build up and tensity of this movie i really loved, people keep complaining they kept hiding Godzilla but surly you are enjoying these big Mutos that pretty much look like a cross between Clover and the Arachnids from starship troopers.
all and all i would say that Godzilla is a very enjoyable movie the build up is great, the fights are great, the monsters look fantastic and probably only but biggest let down was the characters.