I saw Godzilla - King of the Monsters yesterday. It was a big, somewhat beautiful mess.
The pro's:
All the monster stuff was amazing. Ghidorah was such a badass villain, Mothra was beautiful and Rodan's reveal was so epic. I wish Mothra would get more screen time, because her scenes were some of my favorite in the movie. Godzilla was such a badass in the final battle as well.
The negatives:
All the human stuff was boring and cheesy, like Geostorm level bad at times. There were too many characters, and pretty much everyone felt so unrealistic. It's one of those movies where you feel you are watching actors act, not actors playing actual real-life characters, if that makes any sense.. It was actually shocking how dumb the human stuff was. One character is there just to deliver exposition, I mean..it was her ONLY function. Once a new monster was revealed she would go something like "this is Rodan - the fire demon". Then she would show a lot of ancient cave paintings on a screen and give a big speech about the tales that has been told about him in ancient times. She did that for pretty much every single monster, and it got so cringeworthy and jarring in the end...
I didn't like how every moment with the monsters was:
a) in the pouring rain
b) in a cloud of dust and smoke
or
c) at night - mostly combined with dust and smoke and/or rain
The battles were AMAZING, but would it be too much to ask to give us some big moments in daylight where you can see everything?
5/10 - pretty disappointing