shoobe01-1
Started out promising, some great cinematography, but rapidly devolved into American Action Movie Mess®Way too broad in scope, so the origin story is buried, shuffled past, and just too much is happening. The Hero is absolutely generic, in looks, as written, and has no acting ability at all. At least when we're promised the movie is full of Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche and he acts alongside one of them for a while. It sticks out. Action scenes are poorly done, so it's often hard to tell what is going on. Or, things make no sense. Or, it's just so dark you cannot tell anything is happening at all. Despite, apparently, thousands dead, there is no sense of consequences. The peril is told, not felt, not really shown. Maybe that's all they could get with PG13, but in that case: make a different movie. HORRIBLE continuity and accuracy. Forget plausibility, we can go with alternative histories and stuff, but the same buildings are destroyed multiple times, "EMPs" work when needed for the plot instead of on all devices, a clone of SFO is in Hawaii, and Yucca Mountain is in the hills outside San Francisco, the bay is a mile deep, and much more that is distractingly stupid and awful.
FountainPen
Yet again, some people are ruining the reviewing/rating system by popping in to give a 10/10 rating and a superlative review, then disappearing into the woodwork. Are such people cast or crew members? Or this friends and relatives? Whatever, I wish they would STOP it ! Roll on the day when there are only HONEST reviews on the IMDb.
One typically suspect review is headed "Godzilla - The TRUE King of the Monsters is born... " and was submitted by "purenxk" who has reviewed ONLY this one movie !
I found this attempt at GODZILLA to be mildly entertaining, with some fine effects, BUT I expected much more in 2014. The movie was severely dragged down by a silly "lovematch" early on, particularly as the girl is so unappealing and speaks in a mumble !!
Probably worth seeing if you've nothing better to do, but nothing special.
5/10 and that's my HONEST opinion.