Director: Adam Wingard
Actors: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: M
‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is the 5th film in Warners
Bros. “MonsterVerse”, and like all of them does a solid job of making giant
Titans/Kaiju fight, with a bit of a storyline holding it together. Returning are
Dr Andrews (Hall), head of the Titan-watch company, her adopted daughter Jia
(Hottle) and Bernie (Henry), the comedic relief. The new addition is Trapper
(Stevens), the vet. The plot is mostly Kong-centric, now that he lives in “hollow
Earth” and Godzilla’s on the surface.
Kong finds another part of “hollow Earth” (best not to ask too many questions,
as physics went out the window a long time ago in these films) that has other
apes and Titans, setting in motion a big battle with the ‘Scar King’, a giant
Orangutan. This necessitates a semi-forced team-up with Godzilla, with the help
of an unexpected Titan. There’s some time spent on Jia’s journey, but not too
much that you get bored of the humans!
As always, the CGI is pretty good, and Kong has
more empathy than some human actors. Godzilla still looks great – and gets his “pink
plates” upgrade. When they’re fighting each other or different Titans, it’s always
pretty impressive to see. Nothing crazily spectacular here, but nor is it
boring or excessively dumb. Good se of KISS’ “I Was Made For Loving You”!
Overall: Still fun monster battles
Gav's Rating: 3 stars.
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