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Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (PG13)
115 minutes, now showing
2 stars
The two creatures come together again to defeat an even more menacing one in Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. PHOTO: WBEI
The story: Some years after the events of Godzilla Vs Kong (2021), the two Titans, Kong and Godzilla, now live in separate zones and so are in no danger of attacking each other. The giant primate resides in Hollow Earth, monitored by the Monarch research organisation, while the scaly one lives above ground. A Monarch outpost on Hollow Earth picks up a mysterious signal, one that will bring the antagonistic creatures into contact. Characters such as Dr Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and conspiracy theorist and podcaster Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry) make a return from the previous film, as does director Adam Wingard.
Bad news for Singapore fans waiting for the release of the acclaimed Japanese kaiju feature Godzilla Minus One (2023).
The Oscar-winning film has been held back from cinemas around the world because of legal obligations that forbid the American and Japanese Godzilla movies from being released in the same area at the same time.
So, audiences needing a kaiju fix are left with this, the fifth movie in the MonsterVerse franchise.
The films have so far struggled to reconcile two contradictory elements – the need to put the fighting monsters on screen as much as possible, while keeping the story focused on human affairs.
The MonsterVerse franchise kicked off in 2014 with Godzilla, with the following films introducing Kong (Kong: Skull Island, 2017), a wider bestiary in Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019), before bringing the two starring creatures together in 2021’s Godzilla Vs Kong.
The films and Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters (2023) have yet to match the quality of Shin Godzilla (2016), a Japanese production that mocked clueless, grandstanding politicians caught flat-footed by a disaster.
Putting human problems at the centre does not sell many Imax tickets, however.
So, this is the overblown, vapid result – a rambling series of plot contrivances aimed at maximising monster brawls. For the second time, Kong and Godzilla, two supposedly deadly enemies, become frenemies to defeat an even more menacing creature.
Dr Andrews is the film’s moral centre, while Hayes is its comic relief, and the entire affair tries to come off as a breezy lost world adventure, especially when the devil-may-care character of Trapper, a veterinarian played by Dan Stevens, enters the picture.
All that human-centred activity crumbles away like a building under the weight of a kaiju, however, when the atomic breath starts blowing.
Hot take: The MonsterVerse franchise lurches on with the fifth instalment in a series too long on spectacle and too short on ideas. |
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