Now that the film has been out for a while, I'm going to give my thoughts on it. Please note, there will be spoilers.
I'm gonna get my cons out of the way first. Not enough Bryan Cranston and just BARELY enough Godzilla. There was enough Godzilla to carry the film, but, at least for me, just barely enough. His presence wasn't felt almost all the way through like in the original. And as much as I get Aaron Taylor Johnson's performance, there was something so manaically likeable about Cranston's character that made me want him to stick around and he didn't.
Now, my one bit of "controversy". A LOT of people didn't care for Johnson's soldier character, claiming him to be dull and emotionless. I don't get that. Prior to everything going to sh*t, he was a loving husband and father, and a worried son. But once monsters attacked, he switched off...which is what a soldier is trained to do in an emergency situation. There were monsters out there that needed killing, he couldn't afford to go into a deep depression, so he took those feelings and compartmentalized them. Likely after the events in San Francisco, he probably had to depend on his wife to see him through a few rough patches after everything caught up with him.
And finally, my pros. I absolutely love the buildup in this movie. They show just enough of Godzilla in the opening to get you ready, then slowly build up towards his appearance in Hawaii, but hold off on full on monster brawling until later. Now, a lot of people got irritated with what they felt should have been an epic fight that was instead condensed and shown on the news. If you pay attention, there wasn't that much of a fight. Godzilla attacked and the winged MUTO flew off like a pansy cause it was no match for Godzilla alone. I loved the new kaiju as well. Both MUTOs were very neat looking once I saw them in the film(the toys were miscolored and just plain bad looking). The military had the usual idiot plan. "Hey, let's try blowing up three creatures that feed on radiation with a nuke!" The final fight between Godzilla and the MUTOs in San Francisco was spectacular, especially Godzilla's atomic breath.
All in all, a great film and a superior one to the 1998 attempt.