Rated PG-13
Opens: March 29, 2024
Kevin says GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE Kinda rocks!
Legendary Pictures’ Monsterverse attempts to get even bigger with the release of GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE.
In this new kaiju movie, the two titans have to work together to stop a new threat brewing in the Hollow Earth, ready to break free and destroy the world.
Now I love a good monster smackdown movie, which is why I thoroughly enjoyed GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS in 2019 and GODZILLA VS. KONG three years ago. Though to do a proper monster smackdown, you kinda have to have monsters smacking down, and that doesn’t always happen here.
The struggle with GODZILLA X KONG is the film takes so much time with the disposable human characters spouting gobbledy gook meant to explain why these titans are fighting – and which new ones they’re fighting – the film gets bogged down in its own minutia.
Yes, it certainly offers the spectacle you want from a movie like this, and honestly that’s why I’m watching. But the connective tissue is overworked and downright silly at times.
Come for the fighting, but don’t expect much more. GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE gets three bananas out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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