Godzilla

Brian Cranston is a scientist working for some Japanese people in a nuclear something or other. He has a wife who is also a scientist and a son who isn't. He has these readings of some sciencey stuff and runs around warning his colleagues and wife some bad stuff is coming, everyone ignores him and lo and behold he is right and lots of people die. Time moves on a little and his son is now Aaron Taylor Johnson who is a Navy bomb dude. Brian is still harping on about science and gets arrested leading to Aaron flying to Japan to save him. This goes wrong when Brian is once again right and a big flying moth thing starts killing lots and lots of people. For some reason this then prompts our titular giant lizard to turn up and start killing moths and the general public.

Godzilla films have been around for a very long time and are an institution in and of themselves, some of them classics (the old) some of them not so much (brodericks one). Safe to say then this film had a lot to live up to and thankfully it manages the job pretty well. Brian Cranston is very good as the scientist father and his relationship with his son Aaron is very interesting and a nice backbone to the film. It starts very slowly from the perspective of the monsters and chooses to focus on the characters relationships. For me this was the right choice and if anything I would have preferred a little more of the heart rather than the brawn. Thats not to say I didn't like the fighting giants, I did, I just loved the human side of things and didn't want it to end. Because of this the film felt like two halves, not enough to make me dislike it but it could have done with gelling the two a little bit better. Aaron does a good enough job but is teetering precariously on the edge of wooden, good for him the rest of the cast, including Elizabeth Olsen, put in sterling jobs. Overall I really liked this film and spent the following couple of days roaming round the house making Godzilla noises and kicking things over, Sara was not impressed. One last thing to say really, Sara will you marry me? (I'll let you all know what she said in a following review, fingers crossed eh!)

Verdict: 4.5/5