Movie Review: Godzilla (2014)
Review by: Jon Vitale All right, let me say one thing first: I’m a huge Godzilla fan. When I offered to write this review, I went in expecting to hate it; I was expecting another disappointment like the 1998 film of the same name, a movie I like to refer to as “giant iguana goes to New York, eats a bunch of fish, has the unfortunate luck of meeting Matthew Broderick, and gets killed by jets.” However, this is not that movie - this is actually a Godzilla movie. The movie starts with a series of accidents that look to be Godzilla's doing. Massive amounts of radiation disappearing and a meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Japan. Bryan Cranston does his best Bryan Cranston not believing it was a simple accident; he was a supervisor at the plant pre-accident. Cranston gets arrested sneaking into the restricted area, which gets his son Ford (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) to travel to Japan to bail him out. The two end up sneaking back in and getting caught again. This leads to a s...