Reviews

Well, it's a cop movie that took all the cop movie cliches threw them all up in a basket and hoped for the best story-wise. Don't expect any stellar plot! The actors are not in their top shape but also not that bad... notable is one crying scene by Brittany snow - plot wise that scene is a crappy cliche but her delivery is quite good, the crying feels real. Action-wise... mediocre also. They have packed it too much - the movie is only one and a half hours long, when the whole plot would have benefited much more from a little respiro to build up the characters and the suspense. This ain't no 7even folks, but still, nice enough not to regret your lost time.

All you're gonna see in this movie is a continuous stream of cliches. Sure, if it was released say, in 1970, when none of the superhero/sci-fi/fantasy that today is flooding the audiences was present, it would have been quite enjoyable and watchable. But in today's market it brings nothing new. I could constantly guess what was going to happen at the end of certain action scenes, and don't even get me started about the helicopter scene... that one was supposed to be dramatic and some kind of fitting twist but just left me enraged at the stupidity of the screenwriters/adaptation.

In the end it's quality is on par with the other 2 similar series (Divergent and Hunger Games), so, gets a 5 star "meh" out of me. Good for kids but intelligent people beware!

First of all, I've never watched the original Godzilla films, or read any kind of book about it. I'm not a big fan, at all. All I wanted was an action movie where some monsters fight each other... i got that more or less, but it's an insult to the intellect of anyone who has studied some basic physics in school. Where to start describing the atrocities? Well, there's those monsters who eat radiation, but no actual living thing can do that... radiation kills in reality. But maybe that was in the original comics/films, whatever. Second, they go to a nuclear fallout zone and wear gas masks on their face... for freaking WHAT? radiations are extremely high frequency radio signals, they are not some goddamn air poison. Third, regarding those frequencies, they show some spectrum analyzers with the sounds of the monsters on screens... they show them many times throughout the movie, only thing is, those are not audio spectrums, wavelengths, or whatever way to put sound into graphic form. Then there's the door in a nuclear power plant - a thin sheet of metal... right, like that's gonna offer any protection. and then we have the classical stupidity of people - shooting with small caliber guns at the monsters, and also just standing still and not running as the world around them is about to be obliterated... and the list can go on, and on and on.

The movie was mediocre but the way they insult one's intelligence is just unforgivable. Sound was OK-ish, did not intrude that much. Cinematography was also normal, not much of the transformers shaky cam stuff.

In the end, watch this one only if you want to punish yourself for something.