I have seen the 2014 Godzilla and rather enjoyed it! After the various Japanese movies I've watched and things I've read about others, it seems that limiting the monster action (often due to budgetary reasons) is par for the course. At least, as you said, the end is suitably impressive.

--(*wonders how to get you to fall down one of the same rabbit holes I do*)--

*laughs* I don't know. I don't know how or why I fall down the holes I do.