Godzilla: 13 Moments That Prove It's The Stupidest Great Film Of 2014

3. Aaron Taylor-Thompson's Lack Of Facial Expressions

The biggest problem with the film is the decision to replace Cranston with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who plays the typically hardy soldier type who watches the action and helps out the good monster in a similar sort of way that Shia Labeouf and his human co-stars help Optimus Prime. He's not really as important as we're lead to believe in the grand scheme of things, but what he represents - human resilience - is important to the plot's central message. It's a shame then that Taylor-Johnson doesn't seem to have been given any direction to actually emote. Whether he's discovering that his father is in prison in Japan, or is being rescued from definite death by Godzilla, or finding out that his wife is still alive, he reacts in all cases like a man who can't quite remember if he's left the oven on. He's hamstrung badly by the revelation that he's not really the lead of the first or the second act, and just fills a gap between Cranston's heroism and 'Zilla's, but he could have brought more to the table, surely?