Godzilla 2014: Still King of the Monsters

Rating: 6/10 (2 November 2014)

First off, this movie is by no means greater than Zilla himself. It's not a bad movie either, if you just watch it with your brains turned off and take it for what it is: A Michael Bay style blockbuster. The effects are pretty impressive, and it's obvious this is in the heavy-weight class when it comes to it. Godzilla couldn't, in my opinion, be better realized than here. You really feel like he's a real monster, and not just a CGI mess like in the 1998 version. I haven't yet seen the movie, just because i haven't had the time nor the interest since i've heard a lot of bad stuff about it, and honestly i can't imagine Matthew Broderick in an action flick, let alone a disaster/monster movie. Anyways, i've seen the monster and i've seen what the original looked like, and this one stayed true to the original, and is from what i've heard, the biggest Godzilla in the movieverse yet, to ever come to the big screen. The plot is a little stiff i'll admit and it's obvious you aren't meant to think a lot about it. After the characters and storyline have been established it's quick to kill off my favorite actor Bryan Cranston, which i thought was a bit disappointing because i thought he was supposed to be our deuteragonist alongside Aaron Taylor Johnson. Aside from that, when we finally see what we thought was Godzilla being unleashed in that abandoned Japanese nuclear power plant, we instead get what looks like the monster from Cloverfield? These are referred to as M.U.T.O's (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Object). Yes correctly, these because moments later another one appears on the screen only this one is a huge motherf*cker, the female. Apparently they're supposed to mate (the other one being a male and has wings, which the female don't) and they go on a rampage together through San Francisco. And finally we see the king himself, as he attempts to bring order to nature by going Battle Royale with these bastards. In the meantime Ford the protagonist (Aaron T.) tries to get an atom missile of some sort close to the beasts so they can anihilate them, and bla bla. The fight is impressive by all means, though i feel like it should've been longer and more detailed. It felt like it lacked some serious soul, like it was the ginger kid of battles. When he used his Zilla blast, i couldn't help but think "why the f*** didn't he use it to begin with?" I hate that they made it like some sort of video game, where he has to power up before he can use his special move, as if it was a Dragon Ball game of some sort, jeez? I love that they made him like this sort of misunderstood monster, the protector of mankind that men just were too afraid to realize, so they "killed" the poor bastard. Almost like King Kong. But unlike the king of the apes, Zilla saved the day and redeemed himself and man finally left the poor king alone. My favorite attack was when he grabbed the female by her jaw appearing to wanting to rip it open like Kong did with the T-Rex's in the 2005 remake, but instead he breathed fire into the bitches mouth, totally overkill, totally cool!!! But as i said, it's an okay popcorn flick when you have nothing else to do, or have movie night with friends or whatever. Just don't watch it, expecting to see a whole lot of Bryan Cranstons amazing acting abilities.