Unnecessary and boring

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2014)

After watching the movie for two hours, I wasn't squirming in my seat waiting for it to end, I was squirming in my seat waiting for something interesting to happen.
If someone goes to the trouble to remake a movie, one would think that something new and interesting would be attempted. But the result was "Giant monsters smashing buildings". Hasn't it been done before? Like a lot?
I went to see this grudgingly, I wasn't paying for the ticket but I just wasn't having fun. Godzilla is expected to save mankind from the MUTO's? Then why does he show up and cause a tsunami that potentially could drown thousands?
If he's the military's Plan B to kill the MUTO's, why are they shooting at him? Does no one at the top speak to the troops?
They transport a warhead on a train (which gets smashed up) and they ultimately strap it to a helicopter. Couldn't they have just transported it by helicopter in the first place?
"Pacific Rim" was way more entertaining than it had to be because there was an interesting human side to the story. Here we have the checklist of the usual clichés:
1) The fretting wife 2) The guy that no one believes (the father) 3) His son whose job (bomb defusing) is exactly what is needed (but is never ultimately used). 4) Nameless, faceless masses of people being killed
The "it's just a movie" people may quibble with such details but if you're going to make "just a movie", shouldn't it be a good one?