Godzilla

The biggest big screen monster of them all, Godzilla, gets another reboot — this time from director Gareth Edwards  (Monsters), and it appears that the movie gives the origin story a subtle t

May 14, 2014 at 8:46 am

The biggest big screen monster of them all, Godzilla, gets another reboot — this time from director Gareth Edwards  (Monsters), and it appears that the movie gives the origin story a subtle twist. Science-gone-wrong not only creates fantastic and malevolent creatures, it is deployed in an effort to destroy them but proves futile, which means that ultimately it will be up to Godzilla to save the day. Along the way, though, audiences get a host of humans to invest in, two generations of the Brody family — scientist papa Joe (Bryan Cranston) who loses his wife (Juliette Binoche) and then his adult son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a soldier eager to protect his own family — in a subplot that smacks of drama straight out of the Spielberg playbook. Now in theaters. (PG-13) Not screened in time for review