So I read a point on another site that got me thinking, this movie put most of the attention on government an military characters with ordinary citizens in the background. I feel like this choice is where they went wrong with bringing emotional weight to the movie. They didn't really portray a Hollywood version of the military where characters are emotional and animated, they we're calm, level headed an focused, the only characters we significantly saw around the monsters were ones that ignored what they were seeing to focus on a mission. Hopefully the sequels will follow more traditional Godzilla with ordinary citizens as the leads and the military just being a presence.