This looks like a typical western monster movie with a guff story but amazing CGI and monsters. I'm sold!
The 2014 Godzilla was pretty pants but I'm a sucker for giant monsters, especially with excellent effects, so whenever Godzilla appeared all was forgiven. The child in me just loves the scale and all out destruction. I agree the running is stupid though, totally loses the sense of something gigantic and thus realistically ponderous (yes, I understand the irony of talking realism with regards to leviathans with biological energy weapons).