Godzilla

I didn’t hate this, but I wasn’t moved to tears either. I liked Bryan Cranston as the mad scientist, but the rest of the cast was dull and interchangeable. Filmmakers play with “scale” in the first half of the movie, so you never really know how big Godzilla is until a big reveal. Godzilla’s battles with various military machines and other monsters are par for the course: massive, epic, explosive. Thankfully, but only briefly, Godzilla pulls out all the stops for a satisfying conclusion, but I still wish the human characters could have been more, um, fiery.