Godzilla

This review may contain spoilers.

This was a spectacular monster film with an extraordinary human plot woven in perfectly. I would give Godzilla a 7.5/10

God zilla had a fantastic visual style, it integrated monster with environment fantastically; the sets were also immense and very well constructed. The character storylines were very interesting and you felt invested in the human characters. The destruction and devastation felt real and it was interesting to see how much history the film had.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who played Ford Brody, gave the film a lot of heart and he also switched into military figure in a very effective manner. Elizabeth Olsen, who played Elle Brody, gave a great performance as a mother but also as a nurse; her displays of grief were especially powerful to watch.

It was Bryan Cranston, who played Joe Brody, that gave the best performance. His character was driven and determined, but he also seemed frenzied and borderline psychotic. He had become so plagued by the death of his wife that his character development was incredible and only Cranston could have pulled it off so well.

I feel like this film had a lot of convenient plot points to it that allowed the main characters to be at various settings. There was also very little focus on Godzilla but rather his monster rivals.

Ken Watanabe, who played Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, was a rather stereotypical Japanese figure in this monster film and he also gave very little expression in his performance. David Strathairn, who played Admiral William Stenz, was not a very imposing military figure and I did not see him as a commanding or dominating role at all.