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Cinema

The humans in Godzilla are so bland and dull you may well find yourself rooting for the monster

Deborah Ross puts her disapproving hat on for this dud of a new movie from the once promising young British director Gareth Edwards

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

Godzilla

12A, Nationwide

Godzilla is from the director Gareth Edwards, a Brit whose first film, Monsters, truly put him on the map, as it daringly played with the genre, and incorporated a plausible human love story, and the difference between that film and this may be summed up as follows: whereas Monsters was a clever and inventive film made for relatively little money ($500,000), this is a quite stupid film made for a lot of money ($160 million).

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