Atrocious

Rating: 4/10 (22 May 2014)

Godzilla 2014 is one big lie. If you are interested in seeing this movie because of the awesome trailers - I have some bad news for you. You probably already went through several negative reviews here and might be wondering, is the movie really that bad? Well...unfortunately it is.
Unless you are a 12 year old who wants to see a couple of giant bugs walking around and a bunch of people with no facial expressions trying to shoot them down with M4s, you WILL be disappointed.
There is one positive thing i can say about the production - the CGI is decent. It's not mind-blowing though. The rest is just a terrible mess of plot holes, nonsense, absolutely terrible acting and a missing script. The characters are absolutely terrible and flat, with zero development, which would not be so bad if the movie was not trying to force them on you all the time. This is NOT a fun giant monster movie. Instead of focusing on the cheesy parts and let us have some fun with it, it tries to be a serious human-oriented drama, and it fails miserably to deliver.
One of the biggest issues is the acting. Honestly, I haven't seen such poorly executed excuse for it in a very, very long time. With the exception of Bryan Cranston, who dies after 15 minutes, the rest of the people that took part in the production have absolutely no idea how to act. They look flat, uninterested and boring. There isn't a single WOW moment or a single piece of dialog that won't make you wish to go to bed. Nobody seems to care that there are a couple of giant monsters destroying everything on their way and acts as if this is something that happens every now and then.
The decisions that most characters take are also unbelievably stupid. Just watch the Golden Bridge scene and you will understand...
Godzilla itself has a relatively small role in the whole movie, it looks fine, but out of place... It feels as if someone took Starship troopers, made the bugs bigger and then solved the issue by throwing Godzilla at them for no apparent reason.
The ending is extremely cheesy and a total cliché, as is the whole movie. Honestly, if you think this was a good, enjoyable movie, you are either 12, or have absolutely no taste or understanding of proper cinema.
AVOID