Godzilla vs. Kong
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In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
What critics thought
Critics split sharply between those who found the monster-on-monster spectacle a perfectly satisfying blockbuster and those who felt the film had stripped away everything surrounding the fights to the point of emptiness. The battles themselves drew consistent praise for their scale and choreography, but the human storylines and dramatic connective tissue were widely described as worse than absent — actively painful. Audiences embraced it far more warmly than professional critics did, a gap that defines the film's legacy.
“Godzilla vs. Kong is the kind of movie you can pretty much forget about almost instantly after you've seen it—but it's also the kind of movie that makes you forget about everything else in your life while you're watching it.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“Watching these famous monsters share the screen for the first time since 1963's King Kong vs. Godzilla, in a series of expertly choreographed battles, packs real wallop, even if you can't help wishing that screen was 30ft high at your local cinema.”
Jamie Graham·Total Film
“Godzilla vs. Kong mostly delivers on its promise of a big monster fighting another big monster. It just depends whether you're willing to sit through the toe-curlingly bad set-up that surrounds it.”
John Nugent·Empire
“Overseeing the mayhem is director Adam Wingard, who started out making wittily brutal low-budget horror films before becoming a studio gun for hire. Absolutely no sign of his old personality is evident here.”
Jake Wilson·The Age
“Yes, obviously, no one goes to these movies for the deep human characters or for plot machinations or even for the metaphors about the environment and industrialization. Here's the thing, though—they come in handy to fill in the gaps between the monster battles, and you miss them when they're not there. And since even those battles are somewhat perfunctory, what are we even doing here?”
Alonso Duralde·TheWrap
Genres
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Cast & Crew
Adam WingardDirector
Alexander SkarsgårdNathan Lind
Rebecca HallIlene Andrews
Kaylee HottleJia
Brian Tyree HenryBernie Hayes
Millie Bobby BrownMadison Russell
Julian DennisonJosh Valentine
Demián BichirWalter Simmons
Eiza GonzálezMaia Simmons
Shun OguriRen Serizawa
Kyle ChandlerMark Russell
Lance ReddickGuillermin
Hakeem Kae-KazimAdmiral Wilcox
Tom HolkenborgComposer
Zach ShieldsWriter
Eric PearsonWriter
Terry RossioWriter
Michael DoughertyWriter
Ben SeresinCinematographyFrom the studio
Godzilla vs. Kong
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
What critics thought
Critics split sharply between those who found the monster-on-monster spectacle a perfectly satisfying blockbuster and those who felt the film had stripped away everything surrounding the fights to the point of emptiness. The battles themselves drew consistent praise for their scale and choreography, but the human storylines and dramatic connective tissue were widely described as worse than absent — actively painful. Audiences embraced it far more warmly than professional critics did, a gap that defines the film's legacy.
“Godzilla vs. Kong is the kind of movie you can pretty much forget about almost instantly after you've seen it—but it's also the kind of movie that makes you forget about everything else in your life while you're watching it.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“Watching these famous monsters share the screen for the first time since 1963's King Kong vs. Godzilla, in a series of expertly choreographed battles, packs real wallop, even if you can't help wishing that screen was 30ft high at your local cinema.”
Jamie Graham·Total Film
“Godzilla vs. Kong mostly delivers on its promise of a big monster fighting another big monster. It just depends whether you're willing to sit through the toe-curlingly bad set-up that surrounds it.”
John Nugent·Empire
“Overseeing the mayhem is director Adam Wingard, who started out making wittily brutal low-budget horror films before becoming a studio gun for hire. Absolutely no sign of his old personality is evident here.”
Jake Wilson·The Age
“Yes, obviously, no one goes to these movies for the deep human characters or for plot machinations or even for the metaphors about the environment and industrialization. Here's the thing, though—they come in handy to fill in the gaps between the monster battles, and you miss them when they're not there. And since even those battles are somewhat perfunctory, what are we even doing here?”
Alonso Duralde·TheWrap
Genres
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Cast & Crew
Adam WingardDirectorAlexander SkarsgårdNathan LindRebecca HallIlene AndrewsKaylee HottleJiaBrian Tyree HenryBernie HayesMillie Bobby BrownMadison RussellJulian DennisonJosh ValentineDemián BichirWalter SimmonsEiza GonzálezMaia SimmonsShun OguriRen SerizawaKyle ChandlerMark RussellLance ReddickGuillerminHakeem Kae-KazimAdmiral WilcoxTom HolkenborgComposerZach ShieldsWriterEric PearsonWriterTerry RossioWriterMichael DoughertyWriterBen SeresinCinematographyFrom the studio
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