Rent Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Pointless & Dull Sequel - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review by GI

I'm unsure whether there was any audience expectation here but this is a ridiculous film in a fairly ridiculous and struggling series. I couldn't help thinking that here we have a Jurassic World meets The Planet of the Apes and to be honest its all totally laughable and not for the right reasons. I actually enjoyed 2014's Godzilla for its serious take on the Godzilla story but beyond that initial film nothing of the sequels has any real meaning. Basically the costs here do not merit the result and I ponder how many more interesting films could've been made with the budget. In short what is here is a battle between various giant apes and other monsters that dwell in the weird world beneath our feet. It's mostly giant creatures slogging it out in a huge punch up whilst they manage to destroy/damage various world heritage sites ie the pyramids, the Colosseum and knock down huge amounts of skyscrapers etc (the film casually glosses over the human body count!). The actors especially Rebecca Hall have little purpose other than to give exposition to explain a story we can understand and Dan Stevens and Brian Tyree Henry are the comedy suppliers although that's weak too. I suppose youngsters will enjoy this on a rain sodden afternoon but otherwise it's dull stuff.

One of the worst movies ever made. Im not kidding. - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review by JD

An awful cast of annoying and pointless characters. The Girl who's the key to everything (she doesnt actually do anything, but remains the key to everything!), a pink Godzilla (im guessing blue, or just his reguler dark green color wasnt diverse enough), a flying dentist in a brash shirt who can pull magical BS devices out of his rear end, a guy who's job is just to cause what the writers would class as amusment - to us bafflement and cringe. etc etc.

The CGI is extreme and bad. The plot, wait there is no plot.

As for Godzillas part, well he's not really needed and just shows his face to keep the fans happy. We all know an ape can now beat him easily which makes him fairly obsolete.

A truly horrific mess of a film on par with the recent aquaman film.

And what really makes you smart is the latest Godzilla film from Japan. It wipes the floor with this rubbish. Deploying a fantastic human story with the awesome backdrop of Godzilla

Let them retire to Hollow Earth - shut the door, lock it and throw away the key.... - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review by Strovey

When this film started, I was quite enthused and fairly happy. I mean we all know the story, the very premise is silly, most viewers would know what has gone on before, so you settle in for daftness and giant monster things.

So we started and have a new-look (for the film) Rebecca Hall who I have to say whatever the material really seems to buy into it, so you get the best she can give no matter what lines you give here or what the story is about. That made the opening twenty minutes or so fun.

Coupled with Brian Tyree, comic relief for sure, but again an actor giving his all and buying into the role and type of film. This was fun. Kaylee Hottle reprieves her role, sign language becomes a normal situation, great. Even Dan Stevens slightly overplaying his cool, wacky, veterinarian and Alex Ferns being given the only role casting directors see him for took little sheen off the product. I was enjoying myself.

Then the film progresses, Godzilla pops up, angry and here you go, clearly killing hundreds and thousands of people, Kong has a toothache, they fight, millions of people are killed, huge buildings and landmarks are destroyed. Is it fun, I saw cars dropping into rivers off bridges haphazardly destroyed by Godzilla, hundreds of people drowning, trapped in cars. Oh well, people who want to see giant monsters thumping each other do not really care do they. On we go.

The real problem is the humongous protagonists. Take the appearance of giant gorilla, lizard thing, evil-chimp thing, off them, add muscles, suits and capes and Godzilla x Kong is just another superhero film with goodies fighting baddies. The action featuring the creatures was frankly mind-numbingly stupid, the Baddy Chimp Thing was nothing like an ape in any way, just an evil skinny gangster, the apes behaved exactly as humans would in these type of films as did Kong.

Godzilla x Kong: New Empire gets worse as it goes along, and it genuinely looks as if a sugar over-dosed eight years made the action sequences, or heavily addicted LSD users.

Therein lies the rub, if you are sugar over-dosed child or a heavy hallucinogenic drug user then the film might well appeal or hit the spot. But watching the film as it progressed, the longer it went on the more I could feel my brain shutting down.

The ultimate battle scenes, even in the context of this film series, were ridiculous, stupid, and even though they were silly they did not raise a smile.

Some of the effects are outstanding, others, not so much, the screenplay and writing are poor and cliched.

A potentially great film series, with monsters, fun and excitement is ruined, as often they are, but the seeming refusal of people making the film to say ‘NO’.

Less is more and less of watching this would make my day more interesting.