Godzilla vs Kong review

Welcome back, blockbusters!

The 4th film in WB's monster verse, this one pits Godzilla against King Kong. Now, both are good guys, so amongst other things they have to come up with a reason for them to fight. And as with most things in this movie, they nail it.

GvK is an absolute blast. It delivers everything you could ask for from this kind of movie. And it's all the more welcome since we haven't had movies like this at all in over a year.

Long story short, Godzilla attacks a city for unknown reasons, and an obviously shady guy from a shady corporation hatches a plan to help defend humanity from Godzilla. And the plan involves taking Kong from his Skull Island home to a place called Hollow Earth, a place deep beneath the sea where Kong, Godzilla, and all other titans come from.

This movie has just enough quality in its human characters and human story to keep you interested between Kong and Godzilla stuff. Nothing truly memorable in the performances, but I always like seeing Rebecca Hall in things, and Millie Bobby Brown (aka cloned young Natalie Portman) has spunk. I would still put Kong: Skull Island ahead of this though just cause that had more memorable and distinctive characters and performances.

Man does this film deliver the spectacle though. It paces out the title clashes very well. The fights are all really cool. There is a great surprise extra fight that climaxes the film and delivers hands down one of the single coolest moments I have ever seen in a movie like this.

I hope this is the movie that can really kickstart the return of big movies and big movies packing movie theaters.

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