Godzilla by Gareth Edwards will polarize audiences. For one the giant lizard is barely on screen and even the fleeting moments are punctured by the focus being strictly on the humans. This is not to say this is a bad adaptation of the iconic Japanese monster- if anything this is more faithful than the 1998 effort. The scenes of mayhem are well executed but we have seen all the carnage so many times it doesn't surprise us anymore. De-sensitivity has set in and even scenes of massive waves rising and hurling towards land don't bring out any kind of excitement. On the other hand, some moments of silence are good- including a scene on a railway track which is a highlight. The actors are all competent.

This film is the best drinking game. I shan't lie, me and my girlfriend got pissed watching this. Every time there is a cliche. Drink. Every time 'Sensei' pull the same face. Drink. Every time a child is used as emotional blackmail to make you feel any kind of emotion other than tooth pulling lameness. Drink. Just watch it with people with the sole intention of wasting the evening with intoxication. it'll pass the pain of it. No hard drugs though kids. All in all it was great. loved it.P.s. I'm still quite drunk.

Hard to believe that a Godzilla movie could be dull, but this is dull. The production team makes the mistake of modern movie making. They try to confuse the audience with a bunch of special effects that make you feel the headache of an annoying arcade or a goofy casino full of those annoying lights flashing over and over. Pretty much everything is contrived for the sake of what little the writer and director have in mind. We never feel we're there. We only feel we're in the presence of people making a movie, and that's a poor sign. If you can stay awake for the first two hundred years of this movie (it will seem like two hundred years), you'll finally see a monster. The biggest problem is we just get the same characters over and over. Hollywood thinks all men have to be married with families, or they're worthless garbage. Again and again, we are alienated by Hollywood "superiority" complexes. Not pathetic, but this movie is tedious and annoying.

I can't believe someone could mess up a Godzilla movie, but they did. The older movie with Matthew Broderick is much better than this snoozefest. Don't waste your time.