Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

The script, there is a plot but it's preposterous tosh and it makes no sense, and it doesn't even try to make sense... Stuff. Stuff. Stuff. ROAR.

While Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire did on occasion test my patience, the overall ride does remain a fun one, and because of that, I’m still willing to remain seated on the Monsterverse’s bandwagon — for now.

This is great fun. A big, dumb movie that tries to explain with scientific language how we get to a place called "Hollow Earth."

Godzilla and King Kong use to have a beef. Now that they’ve kissed and made up, there’s no real meat in this generic big creature smackdown.

These films may be empty, but they can be strangely stimulating. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, however, is the MonsterVerse at its weakest: Its spectacle is even duller than its story, which is already nonsensical.

If you want to see massive creatures leveling cities, that’s exactly what you’ll get. If you’re looking for anything more than that, well, you should know by now that you’re in the wrong place.

A love letter for monster movie fans with intense, massive battles between behemoths. Even better, the human subplots actually add to the film instead of being a drag on the monster smashing fun.

I think this is probably the correct direction for the Monsterverse and American Godzilla movies to go. Which is that this is very stupid, and it knows it is, and it rolls with it.

The New Empire is visually stunning and ultimately an epic on-screen Kaiju team-up with visuals worthy of IMAX screens. However, the story and dialogue are incredibly corny, presents forced exposition and you can't wait to skip all the human interactions.

Here we have a kaiju film that is so confident and unashamed of its ambitions that even the fans who don’t prefer this style can at least say, “It’s not for me, but I can respect it.”