***** SPOILER ALERT *****
This review will be discussing plot points which may be considered spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.

When I think of the embodiment of raw, awesome, power, Godzilla is the first thing that comes to mind. Pulverizing humanity’s great cities, brushing aside the world’s militaries, and slugging it out with other big honking monsters, Godzilla did it all. Seeing these movies as a young boy I loved the giant radioactive dinosaur dragon. Admittedly, in the sixty years since his debut in 1954, Godzilla’s movies have ranged between wildly entertaining, to reflective and poignant, to just plain laughably and ridiculous. It is just hard to not like Godzilla, and truth be told, it is really hard to mess up a Godzilla movie, (although it has happened). When I first learned that a new Hollywood Godzilla film was coming out in 2014, I was cautiously optimistic. Continue reading