Same beat formula, no payoff

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2014)

The movie starts out by piling on unexplained phenomena. All this mystery never really leaves to any payoff. You don't go into a Godzilla movie expecting any deep level of realism, but the attempts of this movie to develop a plot or offer any kind of buyable explanation fall terribly short. As the same old "giant ancient monsters" formula went into effect, I hoped for some redeeming epic battle scenes...but nope, just the same plot plateauing for almost two hours. After the first 20-30 minutes, I may as well have been watching the same scene over and over until the end which was a slightly more exciting version of the same scene.