Really? Stop Complaining!

Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2014)

I am going to start of with saying, I grew up a GIGANTIC fan of Godzilla. The original 1954 film is one of my most favorite movies ever. And I feel this movie pays a nice homage to that. I don't really understand why there are so many people who feel this movie was boring and that they felt the acting was terrible. I was hooked right from the beginning of this film, right when I heard that classic score(composed excellently by Alexandre Desplat). Although Godzilla isn't in your face for a good portion of the movie, I didn't mind it. For one, he wasn't really in the original movie all that much, so I didn't mind that at all. Two, less is more, I'd rather leave the movie wanting more, than I would leave with a headache(a la Transformers 4). The only thing I really would change about this movie is that fact that Bryon Cranston's character dies fairly early in the movie, which was disappointing because we had just gotten attached to him, why not kill him off in the end? It would have been that much more emotional. Also, just because Godzilla is not on screen a whole lot, doesn't mean we don't get any monster action when he isn't there. For example, I found the scene on the train tracks with the MUTO to be very suspenseful, and somewhat reminded me of Jurassic Park. Overall I feel people are a little too hard on this movie, I am looking forward to a sequel, and am definitely buying the score to this movie as well.