Godzilla and the almighty Kong face a colossal threat hidden deep within the planet, challenging their very existence and the survival of the human race.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is directed by Adam Wingard who has previously directed Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Death Note (2017), Blair Witch (2016), The Guest (2014), You're Next (2013) and a few others. The film servers as a sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), the fifth film in the Monsterverse and the 38th film in the overall Godzilla franchise.
I was kind of excited for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire especially after its predecessor Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) which was a genuinely fun movie that I would even go as far as to say that I really liked it. Unfortunately with The New Empire a lot of what made the previous movie exciting is completely absent here and is very noticeable drop in quality.
Rebecca Hall is pretty solid here once again and the addition of Dan Stevens who's just having the time of his life here is always great. Stevens is some of the movie's best moments mainly due to making the human character parts more fun and a bit more interesting. Where as I actually did not mind the human characters in the previous movie, it does feel like once again the human characters have become such a chore to watch, they were poorly written in Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019) and they are somehow even more poorly written here.
The action scenes with Godzilla and King Kong are fine enough, but part of the charm with the previous movie is we hadn't seen Godzilla and Kong face off on the big screen in years. This movie doing the exact same sort of thing again loses the impact and hype that the first movie left the viewer. It doesn't help that there really isn't anything here that makes the movie itself standout. Sure the fights look really neat and there's undeniably some cheer worthy moments, but is there really anything here that's particularly memorable?
If anything the monsters interacting with each other Suko and King Kong for example is genuinely funny at times (the rest of the humor just does not work at all) and much more memorable than a lot of the action scenes. The New Empire really seems like they put together a half baked plot and threw some monsters on the screen and said "let's hope for the best." I wasn't expecting an Oscar worthy script but seeing how the Monsterverse has shown in the past that there can be really great writing, it's disappointing to see it get bogged down this low.
Having that said I did have fun with this movie for the most part, but this is definitely something I'm never going to go back to. If you just want some neat action scenes you might like this fine enough.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is available on all VOD platforms.
5/10 C
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