Godzilla: King Of The Monsters IMAX Review - 7 Ups & 4 Downs

6. The Acting - When It Happens - Is Great

Though anyone looking at the cast as a selling point on its own will probably be disappointed by the material they're given to play with and the imbalance in how some characters are presented, the film-makers here have assembled an incredible cast who ensure that everything is still solidly acted.

Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown and Vera Farmiga are great as the family at the heart of the film's conflict, Bradley Whitford might be an idiot of a character, but he's very entertaining and his performance is typically great and similar can be said of Charles Dance. He might be underused, but you get Dance to read the phone book and he'd still be brilliant.

Yes, it's a shame that the material they get to use isn't always great, but the commitment to having quality throughout the cast - right down to minor figures like those played by Sally Hawkins, David Stathairn and Aisha Hinds - pays off. At no point does this feel like a SyFy project where the cast were assembled from the breadline and the forced retirement community. And given how easily this could have been a movie starring Dolph Lundgren, Michael Madsen and Corey Feldman, that's great.