GODZILLA VS. KONG
(in theaters and on HBO Max)
These monsters aka the alpha Titans somehow remain immortal, even after being attacked by every weapon mankind has to bear during many decades in moviedom. Nonetheless, they are back.
In filmmaker Adam Wingardâs sequel to âGodzilla: King of the Monstersâ (2019), Kong resides in an artificially created jungle, âthe Kong Containment Domeâ on Skull Island where he is watched over by Dr. Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and her deaf adopted daughter Jia (Kaylee Hottle), who can communicate with Kong.
While Kong gets affection, olâ spikey Godzilla lacks a winning personality and just shows up to create mayhem.
This is a scene from the movie Godzilla vs. Kong. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures)
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NEW YORK (CNS) The goal of a film bearing the title Godzilla vs. Kong (Warner Bros.) would seem to be simple enough. Set the iconic beasts raging at each other until at least one Asian city has been devastated, then roll the credits.
Alas, not content with such a straightforward aim, screenwriters Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein entangle their showdown in the varied strands of interaction among an ensemble cast. The unintended upshot is that the outsized brutes prove a good deal more interesting than the puny humans.
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Godzilla and Kong take on tanks, planes, battleships and beasts.
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A scene from Godzilla vs. Kong.
Confession: I don’t have a clue how to unpack the idiotic plot of “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the fourth feature in the ongoing MonsterVerse series, but I don’t care. You won’t either. Whether you catch this monster mash in theaters or on HBO Max the bigger the screen the better the clash of these titans is spectacular in every sense of the word.
The Plot of ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ Explained
Did you lose track of the story amid the non-stop spectacle? We’ve got you coveredPhil Owen | March 31, 2021 @ 3:42 PM Last Updated: March 31, 2021 @ 9:01 PM
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(This article contains detailed story spoilers for “Godzilla vs Kong”)
What with “Godzilla vs Kong” being the culmination of the Monsterverse franchise, you might have been surprised to learn that it’s under two hours long a rarity in this age of lengthy megablockbusters. But there is a price to that sort of efficiency.
I’ve watched “Godzilla vs Kong” a few times now, and it’s pretty clear that we ended up with a pretty slimmed down version of this story. It’s a point made with emphasis when Lance Reddick shows up late in the film to deliver a single unimportant line before being completely forgotten. It’s tough to imagine Reddick wasn’t supposed to have a significantly larger role.
GODZILLA VS. KONG: 3 ½ STARS “There can’t be two alpha titans,” says Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall), and yet, here we are with “Godzilla vs. Kong,” a mighty monster showdown now in theatres and Premium Video on Demand. The sequel to “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” and “Kong: Skull Island,” dispenses a whole lot of plot rather quickly to make room for the main event, a cage match between the two titans. That’s not a spoiler; it’s an inevitability. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Before the crash-bang-boom of the movie’s climax, the story begins with Nathan Lind (Alexander Skarsgard) pitching an idea to Walter Simmons (Demián Bichir), the big-thinking, but possibly evil Elon Musk-esque CEO of Apex Cybernetix. Lind is convinced that solutions for the planet’s energy problems lie in the unexplored Hollow Earth, a subterranean world deep within the Earth’s core. Long believed to be the natural home of King Kong, Lind proposes transporting the