Godzooks

Rating: 4/10 (16 May 2014)

Godzooks....Just saw Godzilla: Any movie that kills off it's most interesting characters in the first 20 minutes is doomed from there on out. OK so you have big scary monsters laying waste to cities. Monsters that not only make us look puny but surprisingly don't just wipe us out for our shear stupidity. Don't read this part if you don't want to hear a major plot point. Here goes. These creatures (yes there are more than one) feed on radio active material, so what is our plan to destroy them?.... That's right send in a nuke to distract them and then blow them up. I won't tell you how that goes. It is amazing that these creatures feed on radiation and yet no-one dies of radiation poisoning, well unless you count Juliette Binoch. The movie pays homage to, or capitalizes on, however you want to look at it, every major disaster we have had in the past 10-15 years. Tsunami's, buildings crumbling, Floods (i.e. Katrina) and, of course, nuclear breakdowns. At least the old Godzilla movies knew they were camp, this one takes itself way too seriously when all it really is is a B monster movie with cool special effects. If that is enough for you, then have at it, but if you want something where you really care about the characters, I would steer away from Godzilla, although Godzilla himself proved to be a real mensch in the end.