Godzilla Vs. Kong Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs
Stay for the incredible action. Tolerate the awful human characters.
The day has finally arrived - Godzilla vs. Kong is here.
With the slow crawl to "normality" meaning that 2021 hasn't served up many big-budget blockbusters yet, the latest entry into Warner Bros.' MonsterVerse is very much welcome.
Furthermore, it will be a sure test of Warner's day-and-date release experiment, where every major film goes to HBO Max the same day it hits cinemas.
Though the last MonsterVerse movie, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, certainly invited low expectations for this $200 million slug-fest, it's a pleasure to report that Godzilla vs. Kong mostly lives up to the hype, even if it's still beholden to many of the series' lingering issues.
Anyone hoping to see two of cinema's most beloved monsters smacking the tar out of each other for two hours will certainly get their money's worth, though, and regardless of how it performs commercially, it feels like a solid course-correction for the franchise.
Between the film's surprisingly sturdy reviews and exceptional box office performance in China already, it could very well signal renewed interest in the struggling IP - or perhaps simply indicate that audiences are hungry for this kind of epic movie again...