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Review | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire movie review – Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse settles for a lightweight CGI spectacle
- Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs Kong follow-up, sadly, wastes its tantalising premise of the Titans teaming up to defend the planet
- With so much CGI you feel like you are trapped in a video game, and the humans reduced to one-note caricatures, Wingard steers the film into a creative void
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While it should be acknowledged right out of the gate that the American and Japanese Godzilla franchises operate independently of one another, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was always facing an uphill struggle to match the dramatic resonance of Takashi Yamasaki’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One.
Add to this the fact that the King of the Monsters is here relegated to the role of guest star in what is ostensibly a King Kong adventure, and the film may well have a frosty reception.
Adam Wingard’s follow-up to his surprisingly successful Godzilla vs Kong centres on the discovery of a hidden realm within the primordial Hollow Earth, which unleashes an ancient evil that can only be thwarted by a coordinated team-up between the film’s eponymous Titans.
The simpler days of “Let them fight” seem a distant memory, as what unfolds is a relentless onslaught of increasingly ridiculous twists and turns that challenge the boundaries of plausibility even within this hugely fantastical arena.
Last year’s AppleTV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters sidelined show-stopping monster action in favour of more character-based dramatic plot lines.
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