It'll not be until after the movie when you're reminiscing with your friends over the events of the film, that it'll dawn on you just how unmemorable Johnson's performance is throughout the flick. With no memorable scenes, dialogue or even just screen presence that screams something other than 'Generic Military Man #592, his arc through the film starts and ends with him in exactly the same mindset - save for encountering each monster head-on for a few seconds. It's not that his performance is bad (far from it in fact) it's just that the script asks absolutely nothing of him, and he delivers. If his place throughout the story was to essentially walk the line of the everyman, yet twin it with the inherent "I'll heed the call of duty!"-nature we'd like to think we'd have in a similar situation, there are scenes of him going outside of what a regular grunt would do produce exactly that. However as is the case when people talk about his career-making superhero flick Kick-Ass, it's nearly always Aaron's performance that comes last, and with Godzilla he's somewhat proved that he's the next Sam Worthington; a potential golden-boy let down by refusing to climb the walls of an already lacklustre script.
