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Pete Concrete

I had high hopes for this. Edwards gone, fan favorites King Ghidorah and Mothra included, talks of more monster action, less human drama... Well, I guess I am an idiot for thinking it could be any better than it was. It was all human drama BS with very little monster action. With its trite script and dialogue it fails as drama. It's also not a "fun" blockbuster - it wants to be serious and have a sense of dread, but the seriousness is completely undeserved. But mostly it fails as a Kaiju movie, a Godzilla movie. AGAIN. Whenever there are five seconds of monsters fighting in the rainy dark, it immediately gets interrupted by boring humans talking about stuff, like they are in an episode of Star Trek TNG, except bad. Now if you'll excuse me, imma watch something with Mechagodzilla from the 1970s. Those Japanese knew how to do it. That Hollywood, with all its money and talent, can NOT make a decent Kaiju film is completely baffling to me.

4 years 11 months ago

ntan

I cannot believe I was bored for a good portion of a movie that has Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and Ghidorah fighting each other. I just can't.

Obviously, those sequences deliver. There's just so much blah here that it makes the 2014 Godzilla look like a 10/10 masterpiece (honestly, this one really made me think of that one differently and made me come to really like it.)

4 years 11 months ago

ZEDG

The human drama/story was derivative and groan-inducing style levels of cringeworthy/boredom. The monster mythology/backstory is good, the titans and their battles were epic. Seeing it on the biggest screen you can is an experience (just zone out during the horrible cliche family plot like I did).

4 years 11 months ago

maikelf

Boring, bad script, everything is dark and ugly...a complete misfire!

4 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

Godzilla, King of the Monsters is huge, it's epic, it's massive spectacle, it's completely bonkers the way a Godzilla film should be, and on the kaiju end of things, it is nearly unimpeachable. I still long for photo-real GZ and co. in bright daylight - the action is drenched in rain, ash and night, like the previous film - especially after Skull Island, but the image making is still quite strong. The movie doesn't skimp on giant monster battles (even if the trope of Godzilla showing up in the nick of time whenever a character is about to be eaten is used laughably often) and there's definitely a thrill from seeing King Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan, and yes, others, in the American franchise for the first time. Lots of references to the old movies, including, FINALLY, the original Godzilla music (why did the previous production think it wouldn't work?!). Where it falls down on the job is the human story. At a nuts and bolts level, the first two acts are smothered in action movie clichés, and the MacGuffin is right out of last year's Rampage. Things are over-explained because apparently the audience is dumb, but other things are unclear and desperately need an explanation, or at least a bit more directorial finessing. A couple of important deaths are so badly presented, you sort of have to realize they happened after the fact. So never you mind the humano-centric plotting, the boring dialog, or the uneven acting (seems to me, Vera Farminga is too good an actress to look like she's reading cue cards). When the monsters are on screen, it's pretty great, and there are a lot of very cool KER-POW - sorry, SKREEONNNK! - moments. And that's why I see these films anyway.

4 years 11 months ago

Dawizz

This movie is so bad it makes the 1998 one look like a masterpiece!

4 years ago

-TJ-

Better turn on the brightness to full if you want to see anything that happens during the action scenes.

4 years 6 months ago

chunkylefunga

Worst film of 2019.

4 years 8 months ago

Baxrus

I fell asleep first time.
Folded clothes the second time.
I dont dare to see it the third time.

4 years 5 months ago

DisneyStitch

It's got to be a budget issue, right? I mean if you decide to have all of your main monster action scenes in the dark then you don't have as much detail to create in the graphics department. I found myself wishing for the movie to be over pretty much any time the human subplot resurfaced, couple that with the inability to see any of the action and I think this one qualifies as a fail.

4 years 6 months ago

Scheffel

After Kong: Skull Island which was a lot of fun, this felt more like a Transformers movie: A bit of back story followed by 90 minutes of mostly meaningless CGI carnage.

10 months 4 weeks ago

Earring72

Weak story makes a dull (dark) movie. Special effects are very good though.

2 years 11 months ago

Neens

The only good thing about this film was some of the supporting actors' performances. The plot is bad, the writing appalling, Emma has the personality of a teaspoon, Mark's can-do attitude, no matter the odds or indeed the logic, becomes increasingly grating as the movies goes on, and Godzilla himself looks like a gym bro full of steroids with severe back and neck problems put on a storm trooper helmet and glued some scales on top... Urgh.

2 months 1 week ago

Paravail

The degree to which I did not care about the human drama shocked me.

3 years 1 month ago

Emiam

6/10
Nothing new really, we've seen most of it before, will surely be a cash cow anyway.

4 years 7 months ago