15 Biggest MonsterVerse Mistakes (So Far)
4. So Many Wasted Actors
Four movies. So many wasted actors.
Aside from the aforementioned examples of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Brie Larson and Sally Hawkins, the talented actors wasted in under-written and meaningless parts in this franchise is a long and depressing list. Where to begin?
Juliette Binoche and Richard Jenkins only appeared in the opening scenes of their respective movies, while Skull Island wasted Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell and Toby Kebbell. Elizabeth Olsen did solid work as the protagonist's wife in Godzilla, but she wasn't given enough screen-time to make much of an impact.
Similarly, in Godzilla: King of the Monsters Charles Dance and Bradley Whitford both did good work but weren't given enough to do, while O'Shea Jackson Jr. was squandered on a meaningless military role in the same movie.
Godzilla Vs. Kong didn't do its great cast justice either. Alexander Skarsgard and Rebecca Hall were stranded with two incredibly dull leads, Bryan Tyree Henry and Julian Dennison played terrible comic-relief characters and Demian Bichir and Eliza Gonzalez were wasted on under-developed human villains. Kyle Chandler, returning from the previous film, got virtually nothing to do either.
Perhaps the worst example of all is Lance Reddick who, because a longer scene with him was deleted, is literally in Godzilla Vs. Kong for less than a minute of screen-time.