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| From GODZILLA X KING KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE Year: 2024 Rating: B— |
One of the worst things about these new GODZILLA and KING KONG or GODZILLA and KING KONG movies are the humans, and someone must have sent a memo to the director, because people take the backseat here...
But this is not really a GODZILLA picture despite him getting first-billed... it's really a KING KONG adventure as he traipses around Hollow Earth (which is basically the same deep-underground/inner-earth portal from the original LAND OF THE LOST), trying to survive a horde of competing apes before finding one youngster he can partner with... while leading to the main "titan" antagonist, which is a let-down, only because it takes over half the screen-time to anticipate what's basically a red-headed Kong on ozempic (with an angry expression like Caesar from the new PLANET OF THE APES franchise), trashing a magical whip with an enslaved giant dragon-like creature and...
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Well the main plot's that these monstrosities could make it up to our own earth, and if that happens, like every James Bond villain, they'll not only take over the world, but just being their powerfully trudging selves, completely destroy it...
Keeping GODZILLA on the peripheral throughout because, as the same human duo of Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry... joined by Dan Stevens as a kind of cross between brave JURASSIC PARK hero Sam Neill with brainy/sarcastic Jeff Goldblum... are helping with Kong's injuries and overall stranger-in-a-stranger-land plight, the nuclear lizard only sporadically battles various arctic creatures to gain more power for... well... the same thing Kong eventually fights and what everything and everyone (including a hidden tribal native KINGDOM that worships the peacenik-creature Mothra) is leading to...
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Meanwhile, the returning Hall and Tyree are a buzzkill since one's too serious with her adopted deaf child (a McGuffin of sorts) while the other tries way, way too hard to be funny in overplaying the "I'm in over my head" comic relief...
Making Stevens, also similar to GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Star-Lord with his constant jukebox of classic rock deep tracks, the most important person but, again, this is mostly about the monsters... and Kong has so many human expressions and qualities, he might as well start speaking English at this point...
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Overall what works for ALL characters is not only the sense of adventure but the flowing style of exploring new worlds (or various areas of that world), making what's unknown/right-around-the-bend more important than the inevitable titan smack-downs: one surrounding the pyramids, the other on the beaches of Rio...
Wherein THE NEW EMPIRE is almost too good to be true being overloaded with tons of practically nonstop CGI-action: but it's not a terrible way to relax and let the creatures do all the work since, after all, it's their movie.
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