it went from a 86% down to a 73%, what happened?

They just see it as a dumb giant monster movie and give no attention to the story. This is incredibly saddening because this is close to the score of Pacific Rim which wasn't NEARLY as good.

Agree with you ... I am dissapointed not by the movie ... But the friggin CRITICS.!

Well Only if the fans work together and give Godzilla justice by rating it 10/10 in imdb and increasing the good reviews in rottentomatoes we can expect it to go a bit up ... 

And for the #1 movie of 2014 so far, these critics must be high on something

roofies....i think.... you know ...like The hangover

no biggie guys fox news this morning just confirmed that godzilla was number 1 in the box office. :)

My friend was literally studdering after every sentence trying to explain how epic the movie was, especially when Godzilla fought the two Mutos in the end

I appreciate we all want Godzilla to do well but these ratings and stuff are kinda pointless don't you think? As long as you personally like the film it doesn't / should really matter. At least, that's the way I see it!

Granted it'd be nice for this film to be 100% adored but the fact is, it's not. But that's fine! Generally it's seen in a positive light - bear in mind that an overall score of over 70% is still pretty good!

Anyway, we as the fans have what we want: a Godzilla film that has done well critically and in the box office, and is looking to spawn a sequel. It's all good from here on in as I see it :)

I mean, I don't understand the complaining."Good movie not great" seems to be the consensus here. It's still certified fresh and the score most critics are giving it is a 7 out of 10, which sounds about right from what I saw.

You know waht happened? People went to see a Godzilla movie without much Godzilla in it. I know everyone's arguing about this and that and the other. But at the end of the day, when the dust has settled and the excitement has died down, the one thing pretty much everyone agrees on is that they were short-changed on the Godzilla action. Thus, the ratings go down. Don't blame the critics. Gareth did some good things, but he dropped the ball on the action.

Dude calm down it happens with every movie. back then it was only rated by just a few users with most only hardcore Godzilla fans.

and now its been rated by none Godzilla fans to.

and BTW as long as its in 70% on Rotten tomattos im Happy and on 7. something on IMDB.

Rottentomatoes scores almost always go down once the movie is established.  I think that may be purposeful.

In general reviews go down over time, unless the movie is really special. The audience more prone to like a particular movie goes to see it first.  Then the people who are influenced by the early reviews goes to see the movie later.  The later viewers usually don't like the movie as well as the early viewers.  They often claim that they know what all the fuss was about.  So they under-rate the movie, just as the first reviewers often over-rate the movie.  I hope that wasn't too confusing.

Check out the reviews on Netflix.  The early reviews are always higher than the later reviews.

@THEPIKE That is not "the one thing pretty much everyone agrees on." It is what YOU, and many fans with unrealistic expectations, thought. I, and many others, felt that the relatively low amount of Godzilla screen time before the climax made that final battle all the more satisfying. Really, he appeared about as much in this movie as he did in the 1954 original- and I know what you're going to say, "but this movie was much longer than that!"

Well, first of all, there were also two other monsters that needed to have screen time devoted to them, and second, the appearances of Godzilla in this actually followed a very similar pattern to the original as well. In the original, we get the big reveal, where Godzilla dramatically appears over the hilltop, roars… and leaves without doing anything, which is quite similar to the Honolulu airport scene in the new film; then, there’s his first attack on Tokyo, where, iirc, he is just fired at by the military and steps on a train, comparable to the 2014 scene where he is fired at by the military and destroys the Golden Gate Bridge; and finally, of course, there’s the climax, the destruction of Tokyo in 1954 and the final battle against the Mutos in 2014, which would not have had nearly as much impact if there were other big destruction/fight scenes earlier in the film. Just because a film is longer doesn’t mean it should have more action scenes, just that those action scenes could be longer (which I’m pretty sure they were).

Basically, what I’m saying in an unnecessarily complicated way is, all these complaints of “not enough Godzilla” are just over hyped fans going into the movie expecting and excited to see multiple big fight scenes throughout, and so, of course, are disappointed when they find out that the director wisely decided to build up tension throughout in order to make the climax truly great.

And also, “he dropped the ball on the action?!" From what I've seen, if there is "one thing pretty much everyone agrees on," it's that the action, whether there was enough of it or not, was the best thing about the film!