the creature design is superb, the action is relentless, it is all captured beautifully, and Godzilla's many melees are injected with just enough dramatic tension to make us care about which beast will come out on top of the mayhem
it's big dumb fun; you won't leave disappointed. At the same time --almost impressively-- director and co-screenwriter Michael Dougherty is savvy enough to make the human drama epic and monster-shaped
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" never met a sci-fi film it didn't want to rip off, and the result is a sloppy, stitched-together offering with no sense of self