Not a perfect Godzilla, but not bad one either.

Rating: 7/10 (24 January 2016)

Alright kids, this time around I am going toe to toe with the King of all Monsters himself, Godzilla. Now I'll wait for that slight pause as you wonder if it's the shiny new reboot or the Matthew Broderick iguana movie from the 90's if you're still not sure then you didn't read the year at the top of the screen before you began this journey, shame on you Oh, I'm sorry. I just can't stay mad at you. Now back to our movie.
This is a difficult film to review without giving away a slew of spoiler info but I'll do my damnedest to not ruin it. Here goes, a massive accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant causes the quarantine of both the plant and the neighboring community. Joe Brody (played by verbosely well by Bryan Cranston), a supervisor at the plant, loses his wife when the reactor blows (It's in the trailer so I'm going to call 'no spoiler' on this one). Obsessed with this possibly being more than a mere meltdown, he spends the next fifteen years uncovering what he can about the quarantine zone and what the government is hiding there.
After being arrested for trespassing in the quarantine zone, he is bailed out by his son Ford, a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. Fed up with his father's quest for the truth he decides to head back home to San Francisco to be with his wife (Elizabeth Olen) and son. During a layover in Hawaii, Ford comes face to face with what his father feared most now see, a spoiler would be great right about now but I'm not going to do it. Let's just say the ball starts rolling and this movie introduces the Godzilla element we all remember from the rubber-suited monster flicks of yester year