Godzilla

Ratings: 5.5/10

Film Class: A

Genre: Sci Fi Action

This version of Godzilla glorifies the Japanese prehistoric fictional legend, a monster which feeds on nuclear energy capable of mass destruction. However, unlike the previous Hollywood film, Godzilla's this Godlike monster, a creature which maintains balance, humanity's last line of defence against other monsters like it. The trailer tend to throw the audience's expectations off, portraying Godzilla as yet another devastator, but this T-Rex (big head, short hands), Iguanodon (scaly skinned), Stegosaurus (spikes at the back) and alligator (tail) chimera shows you its less commonly seen good side. 

I happened to bump into my friend after the movie, and when he asked how it went, the mentally beat up me replied... "It's quite "gina" (meaning child-like, childish)". For a lack of a better adjective, that was all I could think of to sum up my 2hr long solo movie experience. Not sure if it was cos' of the sound effects, as I was seated at the leftmost end of the cinema, or was it the overly simple storyline, or was it the exceptionally bad acting from the main lead, or was it the insanely ridiculous way Godzilla somehow always manages to come back to life from a near-death state (reminds me of Ultraman), but it just felt soo.. sooo.... horrible. 

There wasn't enough action, too much poor scripting, poor acting, poor development that I just thought to myself, "Are we there yet?" We do get to see Godzilla's full frame pretty early in the movie, but the monster duels were always either cut out too quickly after some teaser exchanges of blows or they just too flukishly ended. 

The best part of it was the opening credits... after that, everything else went downhill. Just like Godzilla, the movie went dangerous close to the core... being sucked in... let's just say it sucked to the core. No stinger at the end, so you could spare yourself the agony and get out of the cinema before the monster "ate your brains".