Godzilla (2014 film)

Godzilla (2014) is a 2014 American monster film produced by Legendary Pictures, and the twenty-ninth movie in the Godzilla series, and the first in the Legendary Godzilla series.

Plot
In 1954, a nuclear bomb is detonated at the moment Godzilla emerges from the ocean. In 1999, Project Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham investigate a giant skeleton revealed in a collapsed mine in the Philippines. They find two spores; one dormant and one hatched that made its way into the sea. In Japan, the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant experiences unusual seismic activity and Supervisor Joe Brody sends his wife Sandra and a team of technicians into the reactor. A tremor breaches the reactor, leaving Sandra and her team unable to escape while the plant collapses, killing Sandra and the team.

Fifteen years later, Joe's son Ford, a soldier in the U.S. Navy, returns from a mission to his family in San Francisco but has to immediately depart for Japan after Joe is arrested for trespassing in the Janjira quarantine zone. Determined to reveal the disaster's true cause, Joe persuades Ford to join him to their old home inside the quarintine zone to retrieve some of Joe's data. They successfully retrieve the data but are captured and taken to the old power plant (which is now in ruins). Inside, the winged M.U.T.O. haches from its egg and escapes, destroying the old power plant. Joe is severely wounded and later dies. The incident is reported around the world as an earthquake.

Serizawa, Graham and Ford join the U.S. Navy led by Admiral William Stenz to search for the creature named "M.U.T.O." (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism). The scientists reveal how a 1954 deep sea expedition awakend Godzilla, a prehistoric alpha predator; how 50's nuclear tests were really attempts to kill him; that Project Monarch was formed secretly to study Godzilla; and that the M.U.T.O. caused the Janjira meltdown. Ford reveals that Joe was studying echolocation that indicated the M.U.T.O. was communicating with something.

The M.U.T.O. arrives in Hawaii, where it destroys a Russian nuclear submarine. Godzilla arrives, causing a tsunami in Honolulu and briefly engages the M.U.T.O. in battle, before it escapes the battle. Meanwhile, a second, larger, and 8-legged M.U.T.O. emerges in Nevada and destroys Las Vegas. The scientists dicover that the second M.U.T.O. is female, the two were communicating and will meet to breed in San Francisco. Over the scientists' objections, Stenz approves a plan to use nuclear warheads to lure and destroy the monsters. Ford joins a team delivering the warheads by train. The female M.U.T.O. attacks the train and devours the warheads. The remaining warhead is airlifted to the city and is activated after the military fails to stop Godzilla at the Golden Gate Bridge. The M.U.T.O's capture the warhead and form a nest in the heart of the city.

While Godzilla and the M.U.T.O's battle, a soldiers, including Ford, enter the city by H.A.L.O. jump to find and disarm the warhead. Unable to disarm the bomb, they put the warhead on a boat so the bomb can sail away before it detanates, and Ford destroys the M.U.T.O. nest. The M.U.T.O's start winning, but Godzilla eventually emerges victorious and collapses on the shore from exhaustion. Ford, as the only survivor of his strike team, is rescued as the bomb detonates at sea and reunites with his family at an emergency shelter the next day. Godzilla, originally thought to be dead, suddenly awakens and returns to sea with the crowd cheering for him and the media hailing him as "King of the Monsters - savior of our city?".

Cast

 * Aaron Taylor-Johnson  as   Lieutenant Ford Brody
 * Ken Watanabe  as   Ishiro Serizawa


 * Elizabeth Olsen  as   Elle Brody


 * Sally Hawkins  as   Doctor Vivienne Graham


 * David Strathairn  as   Admiral William Stenz


 * Bryan Cranston  as   Joseph Brody


 * Juliette Binoche  as   Sandra Brody


 * Carson Bolde  as   Sam Brody


 * CJ Adams  as   Young Ford Brody


 * Anthony Konechny  as   PO2 Thatch


 * Victor Rasuk  as   Sergeant Tre Morales


 * Patrick Sabongui  as   Master Sergeant Marcus Waltz


 * Brian Markinson  as   Whalen


 * Richard T. Jones  as   Captain Russell Hampton


 * Al Sapienza  as   Huddleston


 * Kevin O'Grady  as   Firefighter


 * Ed Rosek  as   Firefighter


 * Ed Belanger  as   Firefighter


 * Steve Wesley  as   Firefighter


 * Matt Ortega  as   Firefighter


 * Steven Wiig  as   Couple


 * Jared Keeso  as   Jump Master Griffin


 * Aaron Pearl  as   Doctor Carsin


 * Yuki Morita  as   Akio's Mother


 * James Kot  as   Navy Surgeon


 * Taylor Nichols  as   Military Analyst


 * James Pizzinato  as   SFG #2 Crane


 * Taya Clyne  as   School Bus Kid


 * Kenneth Carrella  as   Medic


 * Ed Heavey  as   Medic


 * Rich Paul  as   Major Mason


 * Paul Chirico  as   Halo Jumper


 * John O'Brien  as   Evacuation Worker
 * Nel Venzon  as   Angry Miner


 * Keo Woolford  as   Airport Worker

Monster Appearances
Godzilla

M.U.T.O.

Sequal
Main article: Godzilla 2

Trivia

 * There are several references to Mothra throughout the movie.
 * Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah are planned to appear in Godzilla 2.
 * At 355 ft. tall, Godzilla 2014 (LegendaryGoji) is the largest Godzilla yet.
 * Godzilla: Smash3 is the official game of this movie.