“There’s no personality to these movies, other than what the overqualified actors manage to squeeze out of their individual scenes.”

“Godzilla manages to give the beast the mythic mystique it deserves.”

“If you want to make your giant monster movie more of a character study, more power to you, but then the pressure’s on to create some truly captivating characters.”

“The picture’s fatal flaw is its inability to give us any consistent sense of Godzilla’s size.”

“…has a nice push and pull going on, between nostalgia for a time gone by and a piercing, contemporary relevance.”

“A throw-everything-at-the-wall movie, in hopes that something – the romance, the action, a villain maybe? – might stick.”