…a film whose only redeeming feature is that Binoche and Cranston shoulder part of its acting line-up – but just partly. Taylor-Johnson and Olsen cringingly pale before the big man, and that is despite the fact that Godzilla is nowhere in the picture (literally) in the first half.

Godzilla himself has weight, literally and figuratively. Can someone give this force of nature the film he deserves?

Fans of the original (the 1954 one and the Japanese iterations) will find much to enjoy and appreciate about how many elements this movie manages to sneak in from there. However those new to ride, might be left scratching their heads as to all the hoopla. It’s a handsomely mounted spectacle filled with visceral razzle-dazzle but lacking cohesion and logic.