I would liked this movie better if Aaron Taylor Johnson were not a vacant, lifeless puppet and if the trailer had actually informed the viewer what it was going to be about. This looked like a reimagining of Gojira but ended up as a movie about Godzilla the savior. Ken Watanabe was so damn good and so was Bryan Cranston. I wish Hollywood didn't do the shallow thing and assume that even in a movie with a giant goddamn firebreathing dinosaur we still need sexy young people to pay attention to. The point of this film is that Godzilla is better than people so maybe the filmmakers should have prioritized the narrative accordingly.
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