Godzilla (2014)

Pretty dreadful except for a twenty-minute sequence towards the very end (from the soldiers parachuting in, to the soldier boy and Gojira both collapsing). Pretty much zero characterisation, a plot that boils down to "army makes really stupid decisions and plans, monsters react" for the most part, and, perhaps most importantly, managing to make Gojira's appearance hugely anti-climactic.

Rating: Bad

EDIT: on a second watch (2020-10-26), these criticisms still stand, but it does have a bunch of great visuals and atmosphere, and it's a clever idea to frame it as a disaster movie on the human level with gods duking it out in the background. It's just that the first full torso shot of Godzilla (at the airport) messes that up - it's an oddly-placed peak in the otherwise gradual build-up of reveal shots, and it even kills the brilliant troll of only showing the first big fight on a tiny telly tucked away to the side of an interior house shot.