Godzilla (2014)

Godzilla, released May 16th, takes many new spins on the original city destroying lizard. Many of these are well welcomed but others cause for a few lulls in an otherwise action packed movie. One of the main problems with the movie is its continuous flashes between the monsters and the humans. Although the humans and creatures do fight for some of the movie, most of the fights are between Godzilla and the Mutos. That being said, most of the movie is the build up to the main battle between Godzilla and the Mutos in San Fransisco, which causes the story to drag sometime.

One of my personal complaints was the casting and use of Bryan Cranston. While the trailers show him as one of the major characters, his role in the movie is much less than should have been. Instead the movie focuses more around his son and his involvement with the military. This leads for much of the movie to be the navy just following Godzilla, which tends to be very boring. My final complaint was with the 3D. I felt that it added nothing to the movie except for one single time during the title screen. 

Overall however, this movie was very enjoyable to see. It kept to the original story and helped the audience's understanding of Godzilla grow alongside the characters. Although flaked with slow times for story development, the action scenes are truly epic. Anyone that enjoys an action movie should watch it, just skip on the 3D.