An average movie

Eventually, I'm surprised that I was expecting something more from this flick. The point is that it was not bad at all and definitely miles better than the previous version directed by Roland Emmerich but it was still nothing really amazing though. Basically, I was rather fooled by the awesome marketing campaign (they made some really impressive posters) and their convincing trailer. Still, it was far from being a failure. Indeed, it was pretty neat that they went back to the roots and started the story in Japan. I also always appreciate it when they kill some major actors right from the start (Indeed, Juliette Binoche didn't last more than 5 minutes and they got rid off of Bryan Cranston within 30 minutes). The main issue is how can you build up a compelling story with an invincible monster like Godzilla? I mean, with the Hulk, you have at least Bruce Banner to root for but, here, you have nothing much to connect with. At least, he looked awesome but, honestly, he didn’t much have much to do. The way they tried to put Aaron Taylor-Johnson in every single locations where those monsters were active was also rather awkward and he had the rather thankless job of being a rather useless main character who just stands there and watch the mayhem with us. To conclude, it was not bad and rather entertaining but I can’t say I was really blown away by the whole thing though.

6/10