Glad to see so many people liked this movie as well as hated the same parts I hated. I feel like we're all finally bonding.

Bryan Cranston was great, but he dies in the first 40 minutes of the movie. I don't know why they bothered featuring him in all the trailers if he's in less than half the movie. I also didn 't like the "crackpot scientist that no one believes until it's too late" plot. It's been done way too much in disaster/monster movies.

Godzilla (who was a little fat) was awesome when they actually showed him fighting, which wasn't enough. You'd get maybe 45 seconds of a fight and then they'd switch to the perspective of a human character fleeing the area with Godzilla fighting off camera or really far away in the background. Not to sound callous, but fuck those humans and their problems. I want to see monsters fighting, so the only time humans should be seen is when they're getting stomped on.

I also didn't care for Godzilla's portrayal as some ancient, grizzled, prize fighter coming out of retirement just to risk his life to kill some bugs. If they were his food source or something, that would've made much more sense. They mentioned that he was an alpha predator, but he doesn't bother to eat either of the other monsters. He was just content to beat them up, which I think is ridiculous.

And then there's the MUTOs. Can someone explain to me why ancient creatures possess the ability to unleash EMP blasts? That was just a bit too convenient for my liking. What purpose would that power have served millions of years ago?

A much smaller gripe: I thought it was odd that the under-used Japanese scientist (Ken Watanabe) called Godzilla by his proper name, Gojira, once and then only referred to him as Godzilla for the rest of the movie.

I guess there would be an extended version from the Director. For an original reboot, the clash seemed just about right. I guess the Sequel would have us pumped all the more.

The thing is, it's a matter of presentation of this stuff. I just found what they did in Godzilla annoying and as you see other people who live outside of USA have clearly taken notice of this as well. Thismeintiel gave a link to one scene, but there were many more that are so lame they almost look like clear propaganda. I've watched Captain America 2 (a bloody Captain America!! :D ) a few weeks back and didn't get such feeling at all, I really enjoyed the movie. Unfortunately here they overdid it and trust me, all my friends that went with me to the cinema said the same thing. Stuff like this really kills a movie.

I am American and I agree with him about Super Americans lol. I have not seen this movie though

He wasn't just a predator; he was a balancer. Humans awakening the Mutos put things out of whack,  and "nature has a way of restoring balance".

And an EMP is more than just an anti-tech weapon. With the Mutos, it was their means of long distance communication.

Gareth said in an interview with a Filipino personality that the movie did have some scenes cut from the movie. One particular scene happens in the Philippines wherein a dying person said something in Tagalog(Filipino language) about how humans have "raped the earth and scarred it's flesh and thus it gave birth to a demon". It will be available in the Bluray/DVD version of the movie.

Here's the video interview: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/lifestyle/05/19/14/manny-movie-guy-reviews-godzilla

the problem: NEEDS MORE MONSTER FIGHTING!!!

Balance in nature means that predators hunt and eat other animals. Where in nature does a predator just show up to beat up other animals just because nature is out of whack?

No, they used echo location with their voices to communicate. Echo location is a sound wave, not an electromagnetic pulse. They were communicating in the beginning of the film over long distances when they were in those cocoons without using EMP blasts. Otherwise, how would they have communicated without knocking out the city's electricity every five seconds?

You misunderstand, it's got nothing to do with a predator/prey dynamic. Godzilla represents nature; the Mutos were not meant to be awakened into today's world, so him eliminating them restored balance.

And they didn't communicate with their voices; they were communicating from Japan to Nevada. That's impossible with sound. The pulses they used to communicate aren't always strong enough to disable electronics; like the characters said, the waves were increasing as the male got closer to hatching. The male was apparently smart enough to realize that his"cries" disabled these annoying new enemies he found himself surrounded by after hatching, and only after that did he start using it as a weapon.

Didn't read your review.

I thought it was good but disappointing.

Good:
- Individual Scenes

Bad:
- Acting
- How it was put together