Godzilla (2014)

So this review is a little late...Godzilla has been out for four weeks now, but it's the last movie I've seen (yes, I know I should be ashamed) so I thought I'd go ahead and write a quick review. Hopefully I remember well enough...

To start out with, I wasn't actually very excited about seeing this at first. One of the trailers was good, but overall I was pretty skeptical thanks to the last movie in the franchise. But I saw it anyway and I'm glad I did.

The film obviously had some problems...a lot of the acting was subpar, Ken Wantanabe was criminally underutilized, and the plot was unnecessarily convoluted.

But visually the movie was incredible. I liked the approach of showing Godzilla (i.e. glimpses here and there until the big reveal later on), the cinematography was pretty good, and I absolutely LOVED the halo jump sequence. That was just incredible.

And obviously a lot of important people liked the film because now Gareth Edwards is going to direct one of the Star Wars spin-off films. Lucky bastard.

What did you think about the king of the monsters' return to the big screen?

3.5 out of 5 stars.
Viewed at Cinema 6 in Mt. Pleasant, TX on May 17, 2014.