Review of Godzilla (2014) by Mazmorrero47 — 15 May 2014

I appreciate the filmmakers' effort to create a more dramatic take on Godzilla. However, they forgot that in order to achieve that, they needed to make the characters interesting and develop them. Giving the lead role to Aaron Taylor-Johnson was a huge mistake, because the guy can't act to save his life. He plays just another stereotypical soldier with a nurse as a romantic interest. And if you watch the film because of Bryan Cranston, you're going to be sorely disappointed, because he doesn't have much screen-time; same thing for Juliette Binoche. Talk about wasting talent.

Technically speaking, the film is stunning. It should get Oscar nominations for visual effects, sound (seriously, Godzilla's scream is one of the best sound effects ever) and cinematography. Unfortunately, when a cool action sequence is about to happen, the story immediately moves away to throw boring exposition and cliches.

Sure, it's better than the Roland Emmerich train wreck, but that doesn't make it a great movie either.