A Look Back at Godzilla (2014)

Note: This review contains spoilers. You have been warned.

With Kong: Skull Island arriving in theaters tomorrow and it's going to be the second film in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse aka the Godzilla/Kong Cinematic Universe I think it would be a good idea to look back at the first film to start off this cinematic universe and that would be Godzilla(2014).

Godzilla is a 2014 American monster film and a reboot to Toho's Godzilla franchise it's also the 30th Godzilla film in the franchise. It also the second American made Godzilla film and it is a way better Godzilla than that disaster we got in 1998.

The story is giant monsters are causing a rampage through out the world and only the King of the Monsters himself Godzilla can stop them.

• Negatives

One bad thing to this film is the lack of Godzilla. Seriously whenever we get to see Godzilla fight the other two monsters that cut away. There's even a scene where Godzilla is going to fire his atomic breath and then they cut away to let us see what the human characters are doing. We don't get a full fledged Godzilla appearance until the 3rd act. I understand they wanted to flesh out the human characters a bit or maybe wanted us to be a bit patience for the final fight but come on at least make the screen time for both the humans and Godzilla even.

Another negative to this film is they kill off Bryan Cranston's character! Why?! People wanted to see Heisenberg and Godzilla in a movie together. The film even makes it seem like his the main character because in the first act they give us a back story about how he lost his wife making us care for him but the moment the other monsters appear he dies! Instead we now focus on his son Ford(Aaron-Taylor Johnson).

• Positives

One thing to give the film credit for his Godzilla's design. He looks just like his classic self and not whatever the hell that thing was back in 1998. Have you figured out that I'm not a big fan of the Godzilla film we got back in 1998.

Another thing I love about this movie is Ken Watanbe's performance. He is one of the best parts in this film he plays the scientist named Dr. Ishiro Serizawa a man who believes that Godzilla's existence is good for nature. Every scene with him no matter how little is great.

The other thing this film gets right is the one thing we came to see and that's Godzilla fighting other monsters! Yes we do get very little of that but by the end of the movie it's awesome to see Godzilla rip these other creatures apart.

Godzilla(2014) has a great design for the King of the Monsters, awesome fight scenes between Godzilla and the other monsters and great performances. The only problems this film has is killing off Joe Brody(Bryan Cranston) and given us a lack of Godzilla let's hope the sequel will fix some of these problems.

My final rating for this movie is Great.