Directed by: Adam Wingard
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle
I couldn't pass a test on what happens in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. There is a plot, one which numerous cast members helpfully took time out to explain, but my memory remains foggy. I know Godzilla rules the surface, while Kong finds his dominance in the lower world (someplace between the surface and the Earth's core) under siege by another race of massive, giant Kongs. There is a little gorilla, who I will call Donkey Kong Junior, who turns on his own tribe and aids Kong in his quest to defend the worlds against these other giant gorillas.
Godzilla is brought in not as an enemy, although he and Kong fight once, but as an ally. I can't recall with any certainty why this is, but it's all simply a backdrop for CGI run amok and battle scenes as incomprehensible as the plot. There isn't much to root for or against. The actors are here primarily to witness or explicate the happenings as they unfold, but are mostly pushed to the sidelines. The visuals are the stars, and those are a mess. We have difficulty following the action and we find we don't much care anyway.
I watched some of Kong: Skull Island again recently, which is the best of the recent Godzilla and Kong movies. Yes, it had lots of CGI and action, but there was a central human tug to the story and Kong himself was fleshed out. In this latest film, both Godzilla and Kong are there to fight and destroy whole cities and worlds with not much else going on to compel the viewer to keep watching. It's a free-for-all. The more the plot is explained, the more confused we become.
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