Godzilla Review!

  If it's not the look or sheer size of The King of Monsters that brings the chills down your spine, it's going to be the unmistakable roar that could make the Cloverfield monster piss itself. It's the roar everyone tries to mimic, but ends up sounding like a deaf Chewbacca. This Godzilla was what we needed. We needed a Godzilla movie to bury any notion that the 1998 flick ever happened. You know, the one where Ferris Bueller is a scientist that helps discover a T-rex that terrorizes NYC. It does, and should prove that eventually Hollywood can do something right.

    With every movie there is a story. With every story there is usually two sides. We don't always hear both sides of the story, but we can judge based on what we hear or see. The two sides of this story are between the monsters and humans. The monsters don't really give a single crap about the human presence at all, except for maybe the energy source we provide with our radioactive material. Other than that we aren't anything, but in the way. The human side, as usual, is more in depth and filled with emotion. I feel the balance between the two were very well managed for the most part. Towards the end I felt robbed of some monster fighting, but that could have just been me being selfish. 

   Cranston plays Joe Brody, father of Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a nuclear power plant supervisor. Joe loses his wife when tremors, from an unknown source, begin to shake the plant into destruction. Years later, Joe and Ford (now military) are searching through the "quarantine zone" of the past events when they stumble upon some sort of super secret Japanese base where they are studying the source as it starts recreating the same tremors from Joe's worst days. When they are arrested for trespassing in said quarantine zone they are brought to the secret base where the MUTO (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organsims) is kept inside it's cocoon. We all know where this is going.

   The awakening of this beast causes all sorts of chaos, but also awakens what we've all been waiting for - Godzilla. As the MUTO look for a food source they pick the next best thing and head towards the United States west coast. The first appearance of Godzilla is nothing but stunning; a true spectacle to behold. Leading up to the battle of the gods we are brought in and out of both perspectives of the film. The military can't seem to contain the beasts, and the only obvious solution is to let them fight it out.

  As a whole the film was fun, entertaining, and creative. Director Gareth Edwards definitely stepped up and proved that America can make a good Godzilla film. The only problem I had with this movie is that I wanted more Godzilla. I wanted just a little more monster on monster mayhem. The fighting that did happen was cool, but may have been lacking due to it seeming short.

   All in all, I would suggest checking this movie out in theaters. Especially if you have a chance to catch in on a bigger screen like IMAX or RPX.