Godzilla Review

Producers: Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, and Brian Rogers

The Good

The fight scenes of this movie was amazing. You can tell it was a fight between three powerful monsters. They didn’t just make the scenes one sided where Godzilla easily defeats them both. They showed the immediate danger for Godzilla and the skills it took the take them both down.

Bryan Cranston was great in this role. He played a very smart and passionate guy who loves his family. Two of the best human scenes came straight from Cranston when he’s in the interrogation room and when he watches his wife die. Those two scenes made you feel for the character with Cranston and his remarkable ability to show emotion.

The supporting cast of Godzilla was awesome! Godzilla made you want more of him on the screen. His reactions and movements displayed traits of a great anti-hero. The best scene of the movie is when he charges up his fire blast and uses it on the final MUTO. Everyone in the theater cheered when it happened.

The Bad

When you’re looking at the trailers you see a lot of Cranston’s character, his voice is even in the trailers the most, but he’s only in the movie for 20-30 minutes. His character dies off before even seeing Godzilla. This was unpleasant because Joe was such a great character. He had a lot of emotion and he was the only one who figured out the connection between the seismic activity and the monsters.

Godzilla’s screen time was limited to less than half of the movie. They should have renamed the movie to “Stubborn humans mess with monsters and an appearance by Godzilla”. He really needed more screen time for the rating of this movie to go up. No one came to see the humans be stupid, they came to see monsters fighting and to see a lot of Godzilla.

The incompetence of human beings really shined in this movie. First, you have human beings playing the role of the local pizza delivery guy by handing over a big nuclear bomb to the MUTO’s. When you hear their grand plan you might begin to scratch your head because you remember MUTO’s eat nuclear waste, so why try to use a nuclear bomb on them. Second, you have all of the intelligence resources at your fingertips and a guy with a laptop and room figures out more about the monsters than you. It’s been fifteen years since the last seismic activity and you’re telling us that no data was saved from the first event.

The convenience of everyone finding each other was slightly annoying. Everyone ended up in the same location after a few scenes which would be very unlikely. The little kid from the airport finds his parents while at the FEMA base for half a second. Ford runs into his wife after being at another FEMA camp for a little while.

Originally published on the Bring On The Reviews Blogspot blog on May 18, 2014.

Godzilla (2014) Cast and Details

Godzilla (2014) is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe and Elizabeth Olsen. It runs 123 minutes and is rated PG-13. You can look up the full cast and crew on IMDb. You might also like my Neighbors review.