Godzilla Vs. Kong Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

Downs...

4. The Human Characters Still Suck

The biggest general complaint about the MonsterVerse has been the human characters, who end up hogging way too much screen time while also having little in the way of meaningful or interesting development.

Though it never becomes nearly as egregious or excessive as King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong does nevertheless feature a roster of more than a dozen prominent human characters, the majority of whose names you won't remember.

While a certain human interest element is needed to set the narrative in motion, the character count could be cut in half and affect nothing major.

The human villains played by Demián Bichir and Eiza González are particularly dull, while the comic relief characters - namely Brian Tyree Henry's podcaster and Julian Dennison's kid sidekick - aren't really worth the amount of time we're made to spend with them.

Considering Zhang Ziyi and Jessica Henwick both had their parts cut from the film, perhaps we should be grateful that Godzilla vs. Kong isn't even more aggressively overstuffed with people we don't care about.