Film Review - Godzilla (2014)

Based off the classic movie monster character, this new version stars Bryan Cranston as a scientist working in Japan in 1999 when a tremor causes a nuclear plant meltdown that kills his wife, 15 years later those same tremors return but they may not be from natural disasters.

Where do I begin with this one as quite frankly I didn't think an awful lot of this film at all and I'll now go into the reasons why:

- The first and key one is that I just found an awful lot of awful boring as so much of the film is based around characters we do not care about and just droan on and on and on in military speak and it just becomes so boring to watch.

- The second is that the action scenes after a while just becomes mindless loud noises that resemble more the Transformers movies with its BWAMPPP! SMGGGGG! SWWWWRAAAAAA! noises that seemed turned up to 15 and just give you a throbbing headache afterwards and here it's very similar with the loud screaming, the semi close up editing and dark grey colour palette, during those scenes I kept asking myself "Where are the Jaegers from Pacific Rim when you need them?"

- And the third and final reason here is that the script here is a mess, trying to do at least 2 different films (1 interesting and 1 not) and blend them together to make the 1 and it doesn't work, this movie needed a major rewrite to focus more on Godzilla himself and Bryan Cranston as that story was interesting instead of this mess unfold with endless scenes of young children being paraded around that just made me thinking "This is blatant emotional manipulation of the worst kind."

The one thing I did like about this film is Cranston himself who is a brilliant actor and here he gives everything that he has in his role but the script just tosses him aside when it should've been the chief focus along with Godzilla himself, Ken Watanabe is also good here but doesn't get a lot to do as well apart from make siliquas.

So all in all I did not care very much for this new Godzilla film as the story, characters and action all bored me in a big way and Cranston and Watanabe deserve so much better than the thankless roles they've been given here, 1 out of 5.