Dark Zilla - I Couldn't See Anything

Rating: 1/10 (24 August 2014)

A lot of people watch film trailers of the film they are going to watch before watching the film. I don't as trailers always give away the plot or show the best bits. Well I wished I has watched the trailer for this film and saved myself two hours as not much happens.
Godzilla is of course directed by Gareth Edwards who bought us the film Monsters which had a very misleading title since there were no monsters in that film until near the end and up to that point it was just a man and woman trying to get from point A to B with a lot of talking in between.
Godzilla is more or less the same since we don't actually see Godzilla until about a hour into the film and even then its only a glimpse. The first half of this movie is taken up by some other monster dubbed "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism," or "MUTO". This MUTO sleeps during the day and only seems to awaken at night which is of course when the action starts the only thing being is you can't actually see what is happening on screen as its night and the scenes are very dark and I mean dark. Its like someone forgot to turn the lights on. Think Aliens vs Predator Requiem or Noah once the rain starts. If you have seen Aliens vs Predator Requiem then you will know how dark the scenes are in that film and you couldn't see any of the action that is going on as the screen is dark 99% of the time well in Darkzilla its the same.
The MUTO and Godzilla scenes only take place at night where you don't get to see anything expect a odd glimpse of reptile scales. Why the film makers couldn't just have the MUTO and Godzilla scenes happen during the day I will never know. Any day scenes that are in this film mostly involve the US army doing what they always do in Hollywood films and that is stand around and talk and shoot a lot. Some of the American soldiers are shooting at this MUTO with their guns which of course is like shooting with a pea gun with a monster that size which did give me a laugh.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson doesn't do much in this film except fly here fly there and fly back again and that's about it really. Bryan Cranston is only in the film for about 40 minutes so is very under used as a actor.
If only the MUTO and Godzilla were in the daytime then this could have been a good film but unfortunately the film makers used up all the budget on the CGI special effects and therefore couldn't afford any lighting for the night scenes so had to film them in the dark.
I really enjoy the 1998 Godzilla even if its not perfect it done what it was meant to do that that was entertain and have lots of action something this film lacks.
Forget about Darkzilla and watch the original Godzilla (1954) or the 1998 one and avoid this one as it has no redeeming features whatsoever.