'Godzilla vs. Kong' A Review

Godzilla vs. Kong is monster movie, a sequel to both Godzilla: King Of The Monsters and Kong: Skull Island. After G:KotM Godzilla has inexplicably begun to attack human cities, coincidently various hubs and bases for a suspicious corporation, after K:SI Kong has been imprisoned in a large dome habitat. In order to harness the magnetic energy of the Hollow Earth from where all titans emanate the humans have loosed Kong in order to follow him there.

A star studded and deep cast are almost universally squandered, given little to do and serve almost exclusively to dump mounds of exposition in order to make the exceeding complicated machinations of the plot if not plausible at least coherent. Brian Tyree Henry, as a Titan Truther, and Rebecca Hall, as the titan Jane Goodall, are the only ones able to convey anything akin to reality but still only manage to reach serviceable. The support cast, mostly talented actors, are rendered basically irrelevant by unnecessary Gordian plot.

The fights between Kong and Godzilla are cool(the main one is at the 1:20 mark) and visually the movie has some style and clearly a lot of time and money went into the rendering of the monsters but the script is such a transparent franchise cash grab it makes for a baffling and minusculy entertaining experience.

An unnecessary and premature cross-over given how much promise Kong showed.

Currently streaming on HBO Max.

Don't See It.