Tedious, dark and unwatchable (I mean literally, monsters fighting at night when you can't watch them)

Rating: 3/10 (30 July 2016)

This is not a good movie.
I wanted it to be, too. It has Bryan Cranston in it! But he doesn't have enough screen time to make a difference. (1) (Big spoilers are footnoted)
After sixty years, the scientific level of the original Godzilla movie has not improved - it has deteriorated. (2)
Having designed several giant monsters of unprecedented size, the producer has decided to have them always fight in the middle of the night so nobody can see what is actually happening. (3)
It has every monster movie cliché ever, including:

The family whose members are always at ground zero wherever and whenever the monsters show up, even if the monsters have to cross the Pacific to track them down.

People who try to outrun not only blast waves, but also the gamma rays emanating from the material in the blast waves.

Generals who make the worst decisions ever (4), overruling Japanese men with mystical wisdom.

You might think they are just doing these things as "hommage" to the quirks of the lovable low-budget films of sixty years ago. That's not what comes across. Then of course there is the huge death toll, which is not so fun to watch as you might think.
The effect of all this is to make the whole thing just a tedious business. I watched the whole thing on PPV mainly out of a sense of stubbornness, because I had not only paid money for it but struggled through a host of network problems to make it play. Wife: "Is it over?" Me: "No. Thirty-five minutes left." (Both sigh)
Seriously, if you want to see monsters attack San Francisco and people trying to get off the Golden Gate bridge, I think "It Came from beneath the Sea" is a better option, rubber octopus and all.
(1) He dies about half an hour in.
(2) Don't get me started on how ancient creatures apparently lived on gamma rays and developed the ability to use electromagnetic pulses which knock out all the electrical devices in the area for a few minutes, and then they all turn on again and everything is undamaged.
(3) Fortunately they have evolved electric lights all over their bodies in random places.
(4) Okay, so you are trying to blow up monsters with a nuclear bomb. But they might use electromagnetic pulses against you. So you attach the bomb to a (spring-wound??) clockwork timer that will set it off in an hour and a half. What can go wrong? Other that the monster has plenty of time either to eat the bomb or even steal it and carry it into the middle of the populated city so you have to send a suicide team to disconnect the detonator again.