Great experience for Godzilla fans, not so much for the rest

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2014)

As a long time Godzilla fan, the 98' movie was like an ice pick stabbed in my heart - horrible. Big G was reduced to a scared, gigantic iguana that ran around the city and got killed by a few missiles... yikes! Naturally when I heard about this one and watched the first trailers I was stunned, and my expectations were high - especially after just finishing the Breaking Bad series and expecting similar performance from Bryan Cranston ( Who, to my surprise, was not actually the main character of the movie - something that I thought after watching the trailers). Although the director himself is still quite inexperienced and I hated his latest ''Monsters'' movie, I thought he may be able to pull this off properly.
However, unlike the awesome trailers, the movie doesn't really deliver the same ''feeling'', and too much of the runtime focuses on the human characters, very little on big G himself. There are several scenes where my inner fanboy took the better of me, and my heart literally started pounding in my chest ( the first full reveal of the G himself - truly stunning), and the CGI effects and design of the various beasts were commendable, however the movie is seriously lacking in most other areas. The movie is thus watchable, but ( apart from a few really stunning Godzilla scenes), unfortunately doesn't quite live up to it's name, or hype.