Godzilla (2014) is a movie that I recently rewatched on MAX. The storyline follows a nuclear plant in Japan 🇯🇵 that is mysteriously destroyed. A husband and son lost their mother/wife in the incident and try to uncover what happened and why. In doing so they get front row seats to the awakening of several monsters, some that want to destroy the world and some that want to save it...
This movie is directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters) and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), David Strathairn (The Firm) and Richard T. Jones (Event Horizon).
This is one of those Godzilla movies I didn't hate, but could have been so much better. The monsters are fairly well done and the monster battles are great. But the first monster battle doesn't happen until there's 20 minutes left in the movie...and this movie is two hours and three minutes long. The cast was great but I'm not sure I loved them in this movie. The story was just okay; and while I liked the monsters, I felt like they could have gone with a more tradition Rodan as the first villain. Overall, this is worth a watch, but a missed opportunity to be so much better and everything we needed from a Godzilla picture. I would score this a 5.5/10 and recommend seeing it once.
