EDIT: It has now been revealed the original film/script was radically different, longer, and explained many of my issues presented in this review. Studios, stop butchering your films to be more palatable to audiences.
This is what happens when the people who say, "Godzilla movies don't need to have good human stories," get their way. Easily one of the weakest Godzilla films ever made and the worst of this series. You're not a fan of this franchise if you say Godzilla movies don't need story. Every one so far has had an interesting enough script to justify it's monster bits, even the worst Showa or Heisei outings do more. It's not even really sure what it wants to be. Kong is propped up as the hero and clearly the protagonist of this story with Gojira making cameos as he hunts the organization Apex, but then Kong just loses anyways. What purpose is there for even setting up these monsters as sympathetic when all writing and soul is tossed out the minute they start brawling in Hong Kong. It actually forgets humans exist for a good four minutes as these two punching bags throttle around neon buildings. Craft is gone, it turns into The Avengers, with barely any collateral damage. "Oh but, you can follow the journey through the monsters! You don't need humans to have that nuance." Oh really? Godzilla doesn't like Kong being off his island, he puts him in his place, story done. Talk about deep. No moments to breath or for a character to properly react. This is hot off the heels of King of the Monsters, a film that continues the themes of Skull Island and Gareth Edward's Godzilla. Dougherty's outing before this deeply explored the themes of what it means to live with these monsters on Earth. How do you continue living when a relative of yours has been taken at the hands of one of them, do you shut yourself off or do you try to change the world? Emma became essentially so riddled with guilt she released the devil on Earth. How are these monsters really not so different from us, considering they were birthed out of our own arrogant, persistent lust for control over this world. It's too much to get in to, but that film dealt a great deal with overcoming grief, putting your faith in God, coexistence, and forgiveness. Mark's scene where he looks in to Godzilla's eyes and finally restores his faith is one of my favorite moments from this series. There is nothing in Godzilla vs. Kong that could be remotely construed as a plot. Charles Dance's role has been replaced for some reason, we have a wacky podcast conspiracy guy that serves as just a walking prop for the viewer to see world explanations, Kyle Chandler as Mark has been reduced to a cameo, and on that note: Why is he working at Monarch? He consistently hated Godzilla until he had a change of heart and faith by virtue of Serizawa and Mothra. Monarch didn't change to the good guy, they're still an organization on the cusp of lawsuit and government shutdown. Would GvK mind explaining that for us? How and when was Apex formed? How is it possible the creation of MechaGodzilla never leaked out? The world has been introduced to the titans. It's plainly established everyone is obsessed with these things, the internet and news won't shut up about them. The government doesn't know this is how Apex is using their power supply? In '14, it's at least explained their research on the MUTO was a government cover up for Monarch, that's why Joe in that film became a crackpot theorist who wouldn't let the nuclear incident go. But it's not 2013 anymore, the creatures are no longer a big secret. In King of the Monsters, the people unleashing Ghidorah to rival Godzilla are small band of eco-terrorists, they aren't a multi-billion dollar corporation. It makes no sense and done so much more poorly. It's rushed and done with quips. The most we ever get in terms of world building is a single shot of a map and newspapers, talking about the UN vetoing Godzilla or Apex facilities springing up across the map. We don't hear internal communication or even have a Senate scene like in this last film. The world has simultaneously been expanded greatly and shrunken to nothing, something Pacific Rim Uprising also horrifically accomplished. This series was built off the foundation of engaging with this science fiction, government monster universe through the lens of a sympathetic every-man that's been hurt by the monsters in some way, usually a familial death. Dr. Nathan Lind is given two words to establish he lost a brother in the Hollow Earth, but nothing ever comes of that information. Humans? There are storytelling devices used to get the audience from scene to scene. In the same span of runtime, from '14 to this, Bryan Cranston is grieving over his dying wife, to this has a fat guy making jokes about toasters. The most amount of interesting character development are thrown away in two very specific pieces of dialogue. The little native girl's family was killed by the storm surrounding skull island, which we saw in Kong's film, as was the whole island wiped out. I imagine there was a sequence that explored this and able to give a more tragic or perhaps resounding, uplifting message of sticking with family even when you've suffered so much loss. It would fit the overarching narrative that's stuck to this MonsterVerse so far, but it seems the cutting room floor did a number to this movie, as even stated by director Adam Wingard. It really does feel like the movie is playing damage control. Audiences didn't understand the previous films' stories, so they got fed up trying to understand them and just declared they don't want any characters in these movies. So we get walking action figures that say the words necessary to get us to our next fight. The best potential that existed in one of these dolls was Shun Oguri's character, Ren Serizawa, who is related to the Serizawa of previous films, the one who sacrificed himself to save Godzilla and prove humanity needed to accept him as their king. It was a very touching, holy piece in the last film, and Ren could work as an antagonistic son who resents his father for giving up his life to this monster he doesn't understand, and we could go through a similar arc Mark Russel did in the last film. None of this is realized, he is a dummy test pilot told to get in the goddamn chair, like it's an Evangelion reference. The most amount of enjoyment anyone could get out of this is the splodge of CGI dumped on to the screen with no visual grace or narrative substance. If that's all you want, then I pity what this means for blockbusters. Edwards crafted a fantastic character movie in 2013 and the series has been handed a blow here.
I don't know what I expected but this was just terrible. The story was all over the place and fights weren't even that great. How does this get a 92% on Rotten tomatoes? I would skip this one.
Simple blockbuster action movie. Superficial character depth and development, predictable story line, Great CGI, disappointing ending. Seems like Hollywood was trying its hardest to "diversify" cast but forgot about the plot. This movie receiving high grades is a testament to Hollywood's progressive transition from quality to quantity.
To what purpose for the storyline was the part with Millie Bobby Brown in this movie? Completely pointless.
Monster fight scenes were a delight.
The story kinda meh. Madison's crew was just painfully cringe to watch with their acting and lame jokes.
On the other hand I liked Jia's and Kong's interaction and we got more lore which is always good.
Overall it is a damn fine movie, a much watch for monsterverse fans.
#TeamMonke
This movie is not a serious film, just turn your brain off when the big monke is not on the screen, why are people taking this movie seriously. Its eye candy and its damn good eye candy, some of the shots in this film are god tier im talking about the beam struggle
I'm going to say something controversial, but I grew up with Godzilla (1998) and I effing loved it, it was stupid but simple, Godzilla was bad and humans had to save the earth.
This new whole series of Godzilla is just making stuff complicated for the sake of it. Is Godzilla good or bad? We never know, because he just exist and do it's own stuff meanwhile Humans are doing stupid shit and always making stuff worst. Well, ok, that one is a good point, humans are stupid and greedy for power, always more power and this is the part of the movie that is the most realistic :P
And just as you think this movie is about Godzilla versus Kong who will win and the endless debate on the web, SURPRISE! MECHAGODZILLA IS THERE! and just like with Batman v Superman, the two foes goes to fight the new enemy together and win...
You are telling me a bunch of kids hacked into a top secret computer and disabled a mech? This has got to be one the worst sequence of events I have ever had the misfortune to experience. Good fights though. lol Poor Hong Kong.
Like eating the right amount of your favorite candy, Godzilla vs Kong is a visual sugar rush that will keep you buzzing for hours.
Where Godzilla (2014) dragged in places and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was all adrenalin with nothing to grasp, Godzilla vs Kong is a perfect popcorn and Coke movie with the sweet action and the savory visuals. The right length, some gorgeous cinematography, flawless CGI, a perfect balance between action and story, Godzilla vs Kong is the best movie in the monsterverse and caps off the franchise gloriously.
It's not art, but that's OK, I didn't need it to be.
Really really fantastic! Enjoyed the experience so much, excellent CGI, a really good story too to carry the action forward! Must watch on the big screen!
Somehow not all that entertaining.
A film titled 'Godzilla vs. Kong' really should be a lot of fun. For me, unfortunately, it was quite the disappointment. I personally feel they should've literally have made this one whole wall-to-wall battle between the two monsters with minimal human screen time... it felt like we got the opposite of that.
The trio of characters portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecca Hall and Kaylee Hottle are passable if a little boring, they are at least decent. The opposite is true for the three of Millie Bobby Brown, Brian Tyree Henry and Julian Dennison - their whole side of the story just didn't do anything for me, so forgettable. Either way, there are too many non-monster characters in this.
The stuff directly with Godzilla and Kong is alright. I could've done with less humanising of the latter though, I prefer the idea of them being these titanic behemoths that just aren't that interested in humans. The two aren't equals so it feels unnecessary to try and bridge that gap.
My rating feels a tiny bit harsh, but for a movie that has a less than 113 minute run time it did drag a fair deal - and the film's 'best' element, the two titular names, aren't shown enough or portrayed interestingly enough to fulfill what I wanted. Perhaps they'll do it better in the next installment?
During the marketing for this, I remember them sorting the human characters into "Team Godzilla" and "Team Kong", and while Team Kong spends the whole movie hanging out with Kong, Team Godzilla barely spends any time with Godzilla. In fact, the balance between Godzilla's screen time and Kong's is tilted WAY too far in the Big Monkey's direction. They should have called this "KONG (and also sometimes Godzilla)". Oh, and the pacing is noticeably lackluster too
6/10
Decided to watch it again before I will see the new one in the theaters.
The fighting scenes are great. The story is terrible, and don’t even start about the acting.. the whole Milli Bobbi story was unnecessary and incredibly annoying and bad.
A lot of things don’t make sense at all, like how tf are you downloading the most powerful energy source their is?! Ffs man.
This movie is a blast without doubt, you feel the excitement of an epic large-scale fight. It give you what they sold u in the trailer, the human part is quite interesting.
"Feel free to be impressed."
My favorite of the franchise so far! Godzilla vs. Kong is just pure fun from beginning to end, nothing beats having both Godzilla and Kong in one movie.
The journey to Hollow Earth is exciting, i'd say it's the most exciting adventure we've had yet in the franchise, although Skull Island is also solid. The action sequences are great and epic in scale. The special effects look just as good as the previous movies. While I like the setting for the final fight in Hong Kong, I think the LED lighting doesn't look very good mixed in with the special effects, gives it a plastic look.
Kong is more humanized than Godzilla and gets to shine more which isn't fair but then again Godzilla got two solo movies and Kong only one. Not much of a story. The human characters are bland as usual but I do like Brian Tyree Henry's character, he's at least funny and entertaining. MechaGodzilla adds spice to the fight but his inclusion does a disservice to the title and premise of this movie.
The amount of talent it takes to build a movie like this is unimaginable. The cgi in almost every single scene was beautiful. The destruction and design was amazing. This is why I love Godzilla and Kong, and to finally put them together, ahhh, a dream come true. I do wish for a Monsterverse movie in the pov of the monsters, but this got fairly close. The story was nor good or bad, but it kept me satisfied. The dialogue is always cheesy, and the acting and casting was mediocre. The score and sound design was amazing. I still can't comprehend how it's possible to make this big ol blockbuster.
I'm a sucker for these kinds of movies. I didn't really care what the story was about. All I came for was to see Godzilla and Kong battle it out and I was not disappointed.
A quick Hello between the two Human teams would have been nice .
With 'Godzilla vs. Kong', the Monsterverse has finally arrived in the realm of complete nonsense. But given the premise, this is a perfectly valid approach. The film relies much more on humor than its predecessors, but it's still not funny. At least for me, the jokes just didn't work. The characters fall somewhere between bland and obnoxious. Millie Bobby Brown once again plays an annoying teenager, and Brian Tyree Henry takes on the role of a wacky conspiracy theorist. There are also numerous scientists and corrupt business people, none of whom leave a lasting impression. And I don't even want to get into the plot surrounding the "Hollow Earth" theory.
But at the end of the day, you're probably only watching the movie to see Kong and Godzilla tussle with each other and eventually get along. And that's exactly what you get here, with a lot of spectacle. If the monster action was accompanied by reasonably entertaining human characters, then these films could be good. But as it is, "Godzilla vs. Kong" is nothing more than dumb popcorn cinema. But at least the movie is still reasonably entertaining and, in my opinion, better than 'King of the Monsters'.
I was waiting for "Colonel" Graham Chapman to stomp in and announce "This picture is silly, and I'm stopping it now."
At least the mad scientist said "humanity" and not "humankind".
The human characters are basically useless. None of them really matter at any point. Well, one could argue that the latino Elon Musk bad guy has an influence on the plot, maybe the mute girl a tiny bit.. All the others are entirely irrelevant.
Were there already here in the previous movies ? Are there any returning character and/or actors ? I don't have a clue. It seems we're kinda supposed to know them, but I got no recollection whatsoever, except Kyle Chandler's, that is barely seen for 3 minutes in the whole movie here despite having a position that seems like he should have been involved.
His daughter, played by Brown could have been an interesting character, but again, doing her own things just to place her where needed to be a passive witness. Skarsgard's character is insufferable. Brown's friend is even worse. I can only imagine he's been put there to make a hacker meta joke with his only action in the movie being "What if I can guess the password ?". Was it worth it ? No.
The actual Godzilla vs Kong part was not that great, probably as it was designed to satisfy fans of both and so the winner's victory is a bit disappointing. However the both of them vs Mechagodzilla (apparently possessed by Ghidorah) was pretty fun.
As for the whole Hollow Earth part, wow. The constant pseudo scientific bullshit is exhausting. Inverting gravity ? Really ?
And the shock getting there is so violent that it instantly flattened the previous expedition. Well, let's go ith entirely untested new aircraft, and let's bring in an 8 year old on board. Wtf.
What happens inside is worse. Apparently there are advanced technological remains there that recognize Kong's bloodline and even give him a specially designed weapon. On one hand, lol, why not. But on the other where the hell does that come from ? It's totally out of line with everything they tried to build into a franchise.
So on the franchise building part, there's a not too bad try, to try to build something, to merge the universes and create a common background. BUT.
1) Without interesting and recognizable human characters in the middle, the link is very tenuous.
2) They used so many in a too fast way in the previous Godzilla movie.
3) Trying to put an origin place and another world is not bad, but this Hollow Earth thing is so bullshit.
4) The whole "There are Titans fighting each other for supremacy" is a nice try too. But this is a primal fight between a few apex organisms. This is fundamentally incompatible with a civilization, and so with the evolution of any kind of technology like what is shown there.
And since the whole concept is very similar to Chinese Gu poison pot, this means there should be at least a super Alpha Titan in Hollow Earth (and probably a few very strong left). So why would a (probably very degenerate Kong compared to its ancestors) be a King there ? Even more like a prophetic one that it looks the whole world was waiting for ? Even more when we see that he is not even the strongest Titan on regular Earth. Spoiler: there will surely be a strong threat revealed in a next movie.
There was real franchise potential, but it seems crazy to me how we're already 15 years after Iron Man, and after so many trying to surf on and copy Marvel franchise building, not a single one managed even a weak half-assed job at it. They're really all shit.
Note: After catching up on what happened in the others:
1) Humans had a bit more important role. But no real recurring characters.
2) The "Titans are healing the Earth" thing has been abandoned.
3) The other Titans were not all killed but bowed to Godzilla at the end, where are they now ?
=> So yeah, I stand with the comments on franchise building.
The "Millie Bobby Brown timeline" is easily the worst of these movies.
having watched the first 2 godzilla movies over the corse of 2 days, now moves on to this one.. and this one is the one i want to write a review of sorts on.. the first one.. was good, made me cry in places and have those feels you get from epic battles .. as did this one, honestly the emotion in kong was great . tore at you at the right times. and between the battles you dont know who to root for.. was the story good? honestly its not a deep plot. but in this day and age it doesnt need to be.. to be a entertaining film, if you want "reality" and Real world issues in your movies, go watch the news. if you want escape into sitiuations fantastical then thats what movies are for. so for this i fill its role. pace was good, action was good, my only real gripe was madison felt like token from the second movie, didnt drive the story or do anything that couldnt have been fullfilled by a new character same with her father. and the main "villian" didnt seem belivable in the role but too overacted .. but other than that i enjoyed them as respite from modern day BS that is surrounding us.
Monster-verse films are a specific taste. They are good shut off your brain content (similar to Transformers or Fast films). There’s no real knock here, but it still won’t do anything to convert new fans.
Rating: 2.5/5 - 7/10 - Worth Watching
Not bad... But Hollyweird still cannot make a Godzilla movie.
not the first time i got attached to a kong and sobbed about it :')
If you know what to expect from this movie, then you will have a fun time watching it. Two popular monsters fighting it out is just what I need to watch sometimes.
I’ve got about 38 minutes left to go. Can’t imagine how they plan to fill that time! I think the fact I’m trying this now tells you how interesting this is. I’m just waiting for Black Panther to arrive as it seems like there’s a lot of vibranium lying around.
Other than lots of loud noises and smashy smashy, there’s isn’t a lot to praise.
The other movies in the series were better.
I haven't watched the previous Kong / Godzilla movie collection, I collected this film to put my new 4k setup to the test after hearing about its demo-worthy status.
I had low expectations for this film but came away really impressed, while this started off slow with character and story development this quickly ramps up.
The visuals and audio are next level and filled with epic monster battles that made this a truly perfect popcorn film.
I'll now need to check out the films prior to this.
8/10 - Great film, one that I'll happily watch again
I give it a 7 just because the fights were cool, all human story was wasted and almost pointless
Godzilla vs Kong should be an epic showdown. Instead what we get is a CGI snooze fest with bland characters. I made it through, but barely.
the scenes where the mother is talking to her mute daughter are not done well. We have no idea what they are saying, unless one understands sign language. Watched it on Go where there are no subtitles, by the way.
4k UHD Blu-ray was recommended as disc with reference Dolby Atmos track. I confirm. It is. But. I’m was very nervous after a hour of watching because sound was so huge and loud that I’d like to renamed this title as Much louder disc on market. Ordinary human can’t recognize each aspect of surround array and fled it into one big bunch hardly recognizable sounds. Picture is mainly in dark so any mind blowing from screen doesn’t expect.
-Hey Kong
-Yes Godzilla?
-Should we show the humans that after a decade these building are not titans-proof
-Sure thing
and after we show that Pacific rim Terminator who's the real Titan boss
That the Chinese let Hong Kong turn to pile of ruin? Impossible. ;)
Someone wanted to make Alien vs Predator vs Terminator but they couldn't afford those properties so they made this. If your girl made you watch Marriage Story this CGI slugfest is an appropriate response
The energy Godzilla had when he finally defeats Kong was awesome. I wish he had that energy in the fight against Mecha Godzilla. And Mecha Godzilla was too fast IMO for a robot body, they should have gave him more firepower than speed.
Visuals are fantastic but the storyline makes ABSOLUTELY no sense
'Godzilla VS. Kong' delivers exactly what it says on the tin.
Everything on a technical standpoint is fantastic. The visual effects, bright warm colors, and the stand off between these monster legends is spectacular.
Everything else, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired.
Nothing in this movie even tries to make sense.
Reminded me of the early monster flicks with men in rubber suits; and not in a good way.
Hollow Earth is just fucking stupid too.
it was better to have watched Pele's movie
I like big monsters, and in Godzilla vs. Kong there are great monsters. The movie looks good, sound incredible, and the effects up to par. I just wish there were a story to be had in there somewhere, and if you want to get greedy, maybe even a character, apart from a kid and the monsters, that you give a rats ass about.
If you are a monster fan, there's fun to be had here, but to most people this is just a lower card monster wrestling match.
No story really to speak of, but the CGI and the fights looked great. Ant that's really the only reason to watch this movie, and what I wanted from it.
pandering to the lowest common denominators of consumers. filled to the brim with CIA propaganda.
unbelievable plot. how do you not notice a giant ape learning sign language from your daughter? parenting please.
It visually looks great in 4K. Since nearly all the characters were either sweaty or wet, you could make out the details very well. Story was not perfect and had ups and downs. Overall, it's alright.
I have to admit that I expected not to like this movie. When Hollywood decides to pitch two characters, whether it’s superheroes or monsters, that are essentially good against each other it usually turns into crap. Take the absolutely abysmal Batman vs Superman for instance. Then we have Kong Skull Island which, while still being watchable, had a really lousy script.
But to my surprise I quite liked this movie. I really got worried when the movie started off with some nutcase activist that Hollywood likes to glorify. Then they had to kiss up to Communist News Network as well by giving them some product placement. Don’t use a real world news network in fiction movies please. Especially not a well known fake news and far left propaganda machine.
However, in the end it all turned out nicely. The nutcase activist was really a nutcase and really really annoying but he still turned out to be on the side of the good guys.
The story was not altogether bad and although this story of the hollow earth is really far out fantasy more than anything else, even more than the idea of Kong and Godzilla themselves, I liked it. It was quite cool actually and it allowed for some nice special effects other than just Godzilla and Kong beating each other up and wrecking a few cities in the process.
Speaking of special effects. They are really why you watch these kind of movies. Sure a half decent story and passable acting helps but the special effects are the bulk of the enjoyment. For me the movie didn’t disappoint in this area.
They were overall very good and actually quite balanced. Well balanced considering the kind of movie. You cannot have a Godzilla movie without at least a couple of city blocks getting demolished after all. Having an actual wet navy battleship showing up I do ascribe to the usual Hollywood writer stupidity of course but for the rest it was really cool. I especially liked the hollow earth scenes and the strange landscape with all the weird creatures.
Warning, spoiler ahead: The thing I really liked with the movie was that the writers didn’t go down the route of killing either Godzilla or Kong. Something I really feared and which would have reduced the movie to a rubbish rating as far as I am concerned. Instead they threw in Mechagodzilla which was quite cool albeit predictable at this point in the movie and one which united Godzilla and Kong. Also this weird, completely devoid of any (even fictional) science, link to Gidorah was quite a bit of a stretch.
Overall, watching this movie was two hours well spent as far as I am concerned.
The only good thing about this movie was that little girl. I hope she gets better movies.
So, this is the first movie I watched in Cinema since, well early 2020? Or even late 2019. But who counts in the time of Covid?
I generally enjoy the Monsterverse movies for what they are, mindless spectacle, wrapped in some nice CGI, with big monsters punching each other. It’s fun. It’s not supposed to be anything more. So, I don’t go into these movies and expect a great story or characters with actual depth. That being said, I found Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of Monsters vastly more entertaining than this one.
I mean it delivered when it actually showed Godzilla and Kong fighting. Even with the obvious cop out we all suspected thanks to the not so subtle trailer.
The human characters were unnecessary as always, but hey at least Alexander Skarsgard was nice to look at.
What really bothered me this time around was the amount of time spent with the human characters (gladly an issue all these films have) and this time we have two different set of "teams" one for Kong and one for Godzilla. Team Kong was fine, even though I can’t stand the trope of overly precious child characters, but oh my God was Millie Bobby Brown‘s Madison annoying in this one. Her ragtag group of Godzilla loving conspiracy theorists was not only unnecessary and only existed for exposition, they also take title for most annoying human supporting characters any of these movies have ever seen.
Well, at least they mentioned Roswell. So, Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla next?
Set after the conclusion of the last film, when Godzilla battered the living daylights out of Ghidorah we have another King Kong, Godzilla blockbuster. The whole point of this film, regardless of plot, or actors, is to see these two CGI behemoths pummelling the tar out of each other. So, for all intents and purposes this film completely fulfils its purpose. Godzilla and Kong do batter, punch, kick, fire breath and ram things into each other’s heads all over the place, out at sea, and Hong Kong, which they flatten with some aplomb, in garish, confusing mishmash of roaring, punching, kicking and deafening roaring action.
The actors do not far so well. The story is a bare sketch the sole purpose to get the monsters to fight. For a film, that I guess must really be trying to appeal to younger children at the most the child actors are at the forefront the human action. They do not beat the monsters on screen, but they do beat the adult actors into the background. With preposterous silliness to play with the three main youngsters acquit themselves very well. Millie Bobby Brown is already an established and fine actor so we know that any scenes are going to be fun and believable, equally Julian Dennison since his breakout role in Hunt for the Wilderpeople carries the role of comedy sidekick skilfully and with the ease that some much older and more experienced actors could learn from. Entirely deaf Kaylee Hottle is the newbie and is quite enchanting. The children are the resourceful heroes of the day and should at least get their contemporaries in the audience whooping with joy as unbelievable as their shenanigans are.\
This leaves us with the adults, good actors too, but they are very much trailing behind 300-foot monsters, super-kids, explosions and collapsing buildings. Lumbered with not much characterisation, nails on blackboard dialogue they do their best and leap and jump and look concerned through the running time.
The CGI and effects are good, you can see where the money has been spent although it is for me, once again, noise and light salad, much less than the sum of its parts.
All in all, as a monsters fighting film this is good. Anything else and the weaknesses show. I know that Godzilla vs Kong has many fans old and young alike but purely from my point of view once again we are taking a trip to the continent of Non-Plussed-Land. As my grand daughter said after Skull Island why did they CGI Kong to look like a man in a suit and here we are clearly following the original series and not King Kong, either 1930s or Peter Jackson variants. I just prefer my giant apes not 300 feet tall and to resemble a real ape but that is just me.
Some points to note.
Kong was constantly called a monkey throughout the film. Is this a deliberate wind-up by the filmmakers, if it is, not funny, if not that’s probably worse, ignorance.
The exceptionally beautiful Eiza González gets killed again, the last film I saw her in was Baby Driver.
Over the course of these three films in this monster universe how many people are killed? Honestly it must be millions and the cost of rebuilding would bankrupt the world.
I know it is a silly monster film, I know we are not supposed to take it seriously, but these are the things that just get into under my skin and stay there. I think about them when I am watching the film.
If you like monsters lathering the bejesuses out of each other this is the film for you, if you like some sort of logical storyline to go with this battle, maybe not so much.
It didn't waste a minute! 5 minutes into start and the first explosion starts. Very entertaining, i wish i have watch this in cinema, the effects were amazing, very goof fight scenes, nobody should care about the script, this is not for an Oscar or performances. Its pure action and popcorn movie. Which delivers successfully.
the only thing I could think about while watching this movie was how badly I wanted to watch other movies
This was spectacular in 3D, amazing visuals. Exactly what I was after.
Also damn similar to the Megatron storyline from Transformers!
An exhausting and meaningless popcorn teen movie that hits right in the notch of the times.
Completely uninteresting plot that moves along schematized standard paths. Has been seen at least 1000 times, bobs along and you don't really want to see it anymore.
The characters are all standardized and completely irrelevant. I fever with absolutely no one, Godzilla is insignificant for the film, Kong irrelevant to unsympathetic in places.
Yes, Godzilla vs Kong is visually stunning. Super SFX and great compositions. But for me, that alone doesn't justify a two hour film. It needs more.
It's best to fall asleep after 10 minutes (then you've already seen some beautiful images) and wake up again shortly before the end. Then you have grasped the essence of the film and missed nothing at all.
Sure, the story is quite nonesense. The conspiracy stuff ridiculous. But I really appreciated the production design both visually and sound effect-wise. You should watch this on the big screen if possible.
It's giant monsters fighting.
Nice that they released it for streaming the same time though
Not as good as the first of Legendary's Godzilla movies, or even the second one in my opinion, but still great fun and an exciting watch. Special effects were AMAZING, and it managed to have two different stories running side by side without things getting muddled or confusing, which is hard to do. Millie Bobby Brown continues to be the spitting image of Carrie Fisher, both in looks and attitude, and the rest of the cast was great as well. The suspension of disbelief was a little hard to maintain once Mechagodzilla started thinking for itself, but it was still a cool fight to watch. My only question is: Ren Serizawa? Like Dr. Serizawa from the first two films? Any relation? If not, they should've gone with a different name to avoid confusing. If so: why? That character's life choices seem to run completely opposite to Dr. Serizawa's.
The audio and video on this movie is truly outstanding. There were a bunch of plot holes and things they glossed over, but the Atmos mix and LFE was seriously amazing and it was still a really fun monster movie for me.
Teaching King Kong sign language when he is unlikely to know the meaning of human words is just one silly plot point in this increasingly silly movie. Other than the decent special effects there is little of note here. The monster action - what there is of it - is entertaining to a point but the story is dumb and the human interplay is uninteresting.
center of the earth is like 20 meters under hong kong
I the cinema it was really awesome, there was a little bit of confusing scenes that where not relevant but it is a great action movie
Not big into monster movies like this, but it wasn't bad.
minus
- yellow/blue color pallete
- all characters act like they are retarded
- inclusion of emo songs
plus
+ otherwise there is great soundtrack
+ mechagodzilla
+ part in the hollow earth
+ final fight
THE UGLY: ‘GODZILLA VS. KONG’
WRITING: 40
ACTING: 60
LOOK: 85
SOUND: 60
FEEL: 55
NOVELTY: 20
ENJOYMENT: 60
RE-WATCHABILITY: 45
INTRIGUE: 45
EXPECTATIONS: 50
THE GOOD:
This series continues to impress with its visual effects, and this fourth entry is easily the most impressive in terms of the scope of its CGI effects, even if it’s hardly as visually appealing as parts of Kong: Skull Island (2017).
I like the continued humanization of Kong and the special connection he has with Kaylee Hottle, allowing for some emotional depth not found in the previous entries.
Even if Alexander Skarsgård and Rebecca Hall fail to leave as strong a mark as previous actors in the franchise, the cast is great as usual. Millie Bobby Brown is arguably the best of the lot, once again.
The action sequences finally allow us to see what is going on in all their neon CGI glory!
THE BAD:
The plot quickly feels overstuffed and overenthusiastic, as if it moved into the third act directly. It made me exhausted, as I was expecting more build-up. The movie never slows down properly and allows next to no time to develop the human characters and their emotions.
The plot feels mostly like a hastily put together framing device to bring the two titans together, as it feels pretty uninspiring and underdeveloped and doesn’t stand out in any notable way.
The subplot with Brown and Julian Dennison mostly feels like a forcibly inserted comedic subplot that has very little impact on the main story and mostly just gets in the way of the natural progression of the plot.
Apex is a company that appears from nowhere just to have a real villain to fight in the movie, and it never feels like a palpable or believable threat, as it remains very underdeveloped.
The climax already feels big and epic without the inclusion of Mechagodzilla, yet the writers felt the need to fit that one into the finale as well, thus stuffing the final part of the film with way too much content.
THE UGLY:
It’s pretty amazing how titans manage to wreck most of Hong Kong, yet leave no human casualties.
THE VERDICT:
Finally pitting two legendary titans against each other, the fourth entry in the Monsterverse film franchise is a gorgeous, but generic and flawed monster movie that doesn’t require much from its audience.
52% = :heavy_minus_sign: = UGLY
Was what a expected.
- Horrible story.
- Horrible acting.
- Nonsense downloading power, hollow earth and almost everything.
The 69 points is just a scam, don't waste you time.
A great film, even if you haven't seen the other movies! I had only seen Kong: Skull Island, so I really hope they make more of these. I'm sad I didn't go see King of Monsters!
As far as the people go - Team Kong is the better half of this movie. Team Godzilla is annoying, incompetent, and stupid. The best character is Nathan while the worst character is Madison. Whereas Alexander Skarsgard's character manages to become relatively likeable, Millie Bobbie Brown's character comes off as an arrogant, annoying, disobedient brat. I really liked everyone on Team Kong and really wanted to see more of them at the end of the movie. Team Godzilla? Not so much.
I did laugh out loud at the fact that they literally dug a hole to China though. The "Mecha Godzilla" line is also really funny.
Overall, a great film! Not smart, but beyond my writing capabilities as far as its genre goes.
Again a simple story line. Finest thing is downloading a power source and it made within seconds :rofl:
but I love that universe :v:
i walked out of the last Godzilla movie,not going to repeat the same mistake by watching this one no matter how much its trending..i better off spend the time on letterly any other thing in the word
Just came out of the cinema after watching the movie. I loved it, definitely worth seeing. Doesn’t matter if you simply enjoy action movies or you are a huge Godzilla fan - the movie will cater to your needs.
This is the. Worst movie ever made that did not include Barbra Streisand in the cast.
Why did we see Kong looking at another Kong in hollow earth? No explanation & only saw the other Kong for 2 seconds.
like a pasific rim movie
First and best Godzilla movie i ever watched the other ones i never finished....
8/10 only the adult woman actor was so bad annoying (Kong wisperer)
okay so i went to this movie not expecting much but boy was i wrong this was a all out blast so much fun at the movies highly recomended
i like this better than the last one because there is less of a plot here and it is just cgi instead of cringey people talking
Decent CGI and colouring
The human character arc was lacking.
I watched for Oguri Shun as well, but a bit let down due to his short screen presence.
Oh, look. Another script written by a bunch of Ritalin-deprived teenagers who know that all that really matters in the end in a movie like this -- one where the title makes about as much sense as the "science" -- is the visuals for the kids seeing this sort of movie for the first time. And the visuals are nice, but there's nothing new there. There's also nothing new in the two-dimensional cardboard characters or their motivations. Heck, the only thing that makes this movie slightly above average for me is Team Bernie, and mostly Bernie himself. And even THAT stuff is entirely derivative. In the end, I always ask myself of sequels: why did this movie get made? What new elements are introduced to the series to make it matter? And the answer to the latter question here is absolutely nothing, which makes it that much easier to see that the answer to the former is nothing but the Benjamins. Again.
Ok it's a good movie and I'll tell you why. It's a eye candy for people who wanted a battle between Godzilla and Kong. Simple as that. I liked it too.
BUT. But but but... the story, was hella weak. Yes it was entertaining on the action side which I get that's what is mostly expected out of it. But seriously WTF were they thinking with the plot. Maybe they weren't? The downloading of power stuff was BS imo. It was centred around Kong more and I felt like the movie went by real fast. You will only remember this movie for it's high tech awesome monster battles and emphasis on high tech.
Surely this movie disappointed many, me included but the battle was extravagant. Kinda. It's a good entertaining movie. But it didn't satisfy the soul of the audience surely. And I think it was predestined to end the way it ended. Both Godzilla and Kong are major creatures and we don't actually want any of them to die... right? Right. We don't.
Trust me you would have cried either way, no matter which creature you supported. Team Godzilla or Team Kong, either of them died I would have cried like there was no tomorrow. Even though I was Team Godzilla.
6/10 cz it was fair. :person_shrugging_tone1:
If your a teen give it a go, didn't work for me, it could have been a god story but to disjointed and its been done before.
It's like Batman vs Superman, only with titan-monsters. And story same as B vs S, just much weaker
This movie features the most ludicrous and absurd scientific concepts and the most pointless and annoying human characters in recent memory. That makes it the Godzilla movie that's the most faithful to the spirit of the Japanese originals, and I say that as a huge kaiju nerd.
Lots of satisfying fights makes this one an easy recommendation for Godzilla fans, though I have to admit I still highly prefer the rubber suit and the original Godzilla attack music. Something about the over-expressive Godzilla face and the small, beady eyes makes this one kind of disappointing to watch, though I love the way he moves.
20 minutes to the movie and I'm already bored. These new franchise movies are getting worst everyday.
It’s giant monsters fighting with a very weak story thrown in. Personally King of the Monsters did it better.
Comedy relief by Julian Dennison made almost every scene unbearable and felt completely unnecessary.
Visually it’s a great big screen looking film, unfortunately with even the two iconic monsters who’s films I have enjoyed since a kid, I don’t think I will be revisiting this one.
It's like Megashark vs Mechashark with a better CGI...
TEAM MONKE
APES TOGETHER STRONG
it's hard for me to get into big monster movies it's not my cup of tea this movie is better than some of the other ones mostly just because of the Blockbuster ensemble concept of King Kong going up against Godzilla
I mean it's not going to win any awards In storytelling or acting but it's a great Blockbuster action movie with tons of destruction and a giant monkey and giant lizard fighting a giant robot lizard
yea who needs story anyway
Monster fights are cool, but I physically hated the sassy/dorky kid B-plot. The movie really wants you to think that the dorky kid is super dorky, but he's really just a poorly fleshed out character and it sucks.
The graphics were pretty solid and made Kong and Godzilla look even more amazing than the previous two films.
The fights between them were epic and even when they were apart it was fun seeing them cause they looked so good.
The plot was okay, there were two storylines that felt hard to keep up with but I got the hang of it eventually but it’s nothing to write home about. The actors did what they could with the script they had. I wasn’t a big fan of the story arc, could’ve been better but I guess more time and effort was put into the creating and making Godzilla and Kong look stunting.
I’d recommend watching this for the visuals but if you’re looking for story and not visuals or action then this movie might not be for you.
CGI is god-tier, but if you are here for the plot you should probably stay away.
Turned out a whole lot better than what I was expecting.. Good watch
Monkey and lizard fight. Film met all expectactions.
It is better that I thought. Full of action with cgi but they tried to make a story from such a barren plot.
the only bad thing about covid is that didn't killed me before watching this ... even if you turn your brain off this movie make no sense... The others before I expected nothing and was pleased, this one... gosh.... is a rip off of Pacific Rim and hell yeah, I'm aware of the irony of the film that ripped of itself of a bad copy of a bad copy....of a copy....
The monster fights were fun and uninterrupted and extremely well executed. As usual most of the human stuff was horribly written but it felt like a lot of that was self-aware and disposable enough to easily ignore and some of the human plot was actually somewhat relevant to the story. A really fun movie with a ton of great monster-on-monster action and fights that look and sound spectacular
But please FFS can we stop with the Millie Bobby Brown character? Her cohort and her were incredibly annoying and their entire subplot could have been removed completely and it would take away nothing. Or maybe give her a better personality and something more sensible to do than what he got
Just like Skull Island, this movie suffer greatly for the "human part" of the story. Boring, obnoxious, with plenty of bad written characters.
Worst of all, the characters portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown and Brian Tyree Henry.
The monster part is good, not as good as the ones from Skull Island but still good. A bit too dark in too many parts, but enjoyable.
Please, make a movie with just monsters!!
The perfect excuse to show Godzilla and Kong smashing their butts. Don't get me wrong, that was exactly what we wanted to see and what was delivered to us.
The visuals were fascinating, I usually complain a lot about how obvious the CGI is noticeable, but this time it seemed very well done.
Obviously, the plot was not a big deal, it was very irrelevant, but as I read there, who was looking for a super exciting plot of human characters? nobody, hahaha. And they did not show how the beginnings of the monsters neither because that is what the previous films are for. Seriously, what were you expecting more than a giant lizard and an angry monkey fighting? LOL
Being raised on the old Godzilla flicks back in the 60s, I see that Godzilla has gotten fat. His screech is not the same anymore and they put an emphasis on his water abilities. This flick was everything I thought it would be including predictable and full of action. Not bad but glad I did not pay to see it i a theater.
human part of the movie 3/10
gojira fighting kong 8/10
"There can't be two Alpha Titans."
I must come forward with this straight away, even though this has Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) as a podcast maker, the human characters still didn't grab me. Enjoyed Kong's connection with Jia (Kaylee Hottle) but other than that, no.
But let us be honest, we don't come for the human characters. They can elevate the film but it is not why we are here. We are here for huge Kaiju/Titan fights! And boy this does deliver. We can clearly see whats happening which is a plus, we have a fight out on sea and a city battle. They even throw Mecha-Godzilla. One of my favorites! So we get 3 huge battles, we get Kong being freaking brutal and doing some Sub-Zero fatality shit, we have Kong summon his inner Riggs to relocate his shoulder, the best shot of Godzilla and Kong screaming to each other and we get the right winner.
I hope they expand on the MonsterVerse. Maybe get Gigan to earth next time? or the DESTROYAH? Anyway Godzilla vs. Kong is really worth a watch, it's under two hours which is such a plus and the CGI looks fantastic and the fights are all worth it.
It's still amazing that these two Cinematic Legends are still going strong.
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I could smell the SJW bullshit right away... "women strong! men cowards! girl power!" yeah, fuck that shit... putting that aside the rest of the movie was just average... sure, it was visually impressive but otherwise it was very predictable and also kinda dumb in some aspects...