I took my son to see Godzilla in 3D on opening night. It was great that we shared the experience, but the Godzilla movie left me emotionally unsatisfied for 3 reasons:
(Spoilers ahead)
- I thought the movie was about the father, but then they take a turn, and I guess we follow the son the rest of the movie even though the father had all the emotion in the first act.
- Everyone knows you don’t kill the mentor until the end of the second act. If the father isn’t going to play the hero, then I guess he is the mentor. They kill the father in the early second act.
- Fine, you kill the father early on, but you’re not going to let us see any catharsis with the father and son? Seriously, the closing image should have been the son at the father’s grave or something. Emotionally I want to see the son reconcile with his father.
Anyway, other than not being emotionally satisfying, Godzilla 2014 was…fine.