Genuinely surprised this was a theatrical release as it has the trademarks of a straight to video effort: few locations, sparse extras, replayed footage from earlier including one FX shot, & lots of action indoors to save on miniature sets. And this somehow cost about a third more than the millennium era Godzilla films? This is a real turkey caught between padded out, dramatically inert dialogue scenes and a desire to be meat & potatoes entertainment with stock supporting characters that barely utter a word and a missing second act. You really feel the wheels of production turn around the scant set pieces, the last one doubling as the entirety of the finale, dragging the momentum down from a walk to a crawl. I appreciate our lead being a family man and actually looking the part & and the lukewarm effort at a parallel story with the leading lady, but it’s not enough.