The king returns

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2016)

I've long been a Godzilla fan, I've seen almost every movie and the original one from 1954 still hails as a classic in my opinion and while there was some things that could have been done better in this movie, I still feel like movie was one of the best movies of 2014 and marked a successful return for the King to America. Yes, holding Godzilla back until roughly an hour in was sort of a letdown as well as killing off Brian Cranston(the only actor who seemed to give a **** the entire film) but this film mostly suffered from what I felt like was under-developed characters and over-all a somewhat too "human centered" movie. Yes, showing the human side of Godzilla's path of destruction is a much needed quality to these movies but not to the extent of giving your title character around 24 minutes of TOTAL screen time(+small appearances in the beginning). Besides, most of the movie showed the humans being stupid and trying to nuke Godzilla(who feeds off nuclear fallout) and the MUTOs, the entire human aspect of the film could have been done a lot better then the simple "lets nuke em" approach. I didn't have as much problems with the MUTOS either but I more so had a problem with how they were pushed up to be some unstoppable force but were easily destroyed in a rather awesome fashion by Godzilla. The fight scene towards the end really made the movie for me as a whole and the final appearance by Godzilla was glorious as well. All in all, I feel like this movie was very well done and provides a lot of hope for a string of successful American Godzilla movies.