Reeling reviews Godzilla

In 1999, Drs. Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe, "Inception") and Vivienne Graham (Sally Hawkins, "Blue Jasmine") are called to the Philippines where a valley has cratered at a uranium mining site.  Deep down beneath the earth, they find an awe-inspiring radioactive fossil.  'Could it be him?' asks Vivienne.  But Serizawa says this creature was ancient and notes the troubling sign of a parasite.  They spy a trench leading out to the sea.  Across it, Janjira Nuclear Power Plant manager Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston, AMC's 'Breaking Bad') has been tracking disturbing seismic activity and before the day is out, he will have lost his wife in the plant's meltdown.  Fifteen years later, Brody's still trying to find answers and when his son, naval officer Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, "Kick-Ass"), arrives to get him out of jail, they will witness the awakening of the creature which Serizawa has been studying in his quest to find "Godzilla."

Four years ago, director Gareth Edwards got critical acclaim for his micro-budgeted independent "Monsters." Now he takes the reins of the mega-budgeted reboot of the most popular monster series of all time and while one can see the visual style of his first film (lots of fog and mist), it looks a lot like Edwards has been studying "Jurassic Park."  The film's better than Roland Emmerich's 1998 version, but there is still no Godzilla movie as good as Toho Co.'s 1954 original.

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