One of the big disappointments for me was how this wasn't Godzilla's story at all. It really felt like it would've been, from the promo trailers and ads, but nope. It was really all about the MUTOs, with Godzilla as this side character.

First scene with the excavation of the underground cave and dinosaur skeleton reveals... the MUTO eggs. Then we see one of the eggs has hatched and gone tearing down the side of the island. The entire focus of Serisawa's team becomes the study of these MUTOs.

Then the power plant disaster that claims the life of Walter White's wife is... not the result of Godzilla at all. It's the MUTO attacking that ruins the Brody family's lives. This MUTO ends up hibernating at the plant for a decade.

We get back to the power plant ruins and they're monitoring the MUTO egg. The mysterious and tantalizing electromagnetic pulses that Walter White has been obsessed with for the last ten years are being generated by... the MUTOs. They're not being generated by Godzilla, he's got nothing to do with them.

Then the egg hatches and the newborn MUTO rampages and kills our most interesting character. It's not Godzilla that kills this father figure and leaves Ford with another tragedy, it's the MUTO.

Then we get aboard the aircraft carrier and find out that there's a Russian submarine that's been attacked and somehow landed on Hawaii(?). Now, Godzilla has had a long history of attacking submarines. It's kind of a tradition in his movies. We've got the Russian sub that gets sunk in Godzilla 1984 and threatens to ignite the cold war. Then we've got a nuclear sub owned by Mr Shindo that's sunk in Godzilla vs King Ghidorah 1991. Actually, he sinks an unseen Russian sub in that same movie. Then he sinks a US submarine in Godzilla Tokyo SOS. So it seemed cool that they'd bring back this submarine-sinking tendency in the new movie.

They send out special forces teams and they do find the sub, which has its nuclear missiles being eaten by... the MUTO. Not Godzilla. The MUTO's the one who wrecked the sub and drains its nuclear power. How disappointing.

So now Ford's in Hawaii as well and we get to see his tram derailed and wrecked by the MUTO. Not Godzilla. The MUTO's in charge of everything that's happening in the movie. All we've seen of Godzilla has been him tranquilly swimming alongside the US naval fleet, with his spikes sticking out of the water. The MUTO's wrecking everything in Hawaii and helicopter gunships are pouring fire on him. This is a nice military vs monster scene, but it's all about the MUTO. Then Godzilla shows up but we cut away and there's nothing to be seen.

So then we move from Hawaii to the US mainland and the MUTOs go and wreck Las Vegas. Nothing to do with Godzilla. The atomic waste reservoir is breached and we see the MUTOs off in the distance. The military plan calls for nuclear missiles to be used. So we're on a train heading for SF. But wait... a monster attacks the train. And... it's not Godzilla. I think Godzilla's still swimming alongside the US fleet, with his spikes poking up out of the water. The MUTO is the one that's attacking the train, and we get to see Ford trying desperately to hide from its senses. The MUTO wrecks the train and devours a missile. Once again, we're focusing on what the MUTOs are doing.

So the one remaining nuclear missile is placed in the Bay Area but... it gets snatched up by the MUTOs. Now the MUTOs have placed it in the middle of the city. Godzilla arrives, but he's only there to stop the escalation caused by the MUTOs. He simply reacts. The MUTOs are driving the movie's momentum.

So no, I don't think they did a good job of introducing Godzilla for the first time to a new generation of moviegoers. They didn't tell Godzilla's story, they told the story of the MUTOs. Which I think would be fine for a regular Godzilla movie in a series of movies, but doesn't feel satisfying at all when this is the first one and supposed to bring Godzilla back to prominence. As an origin story for Godzilla, it's really, really misconceived.