Foreword:
This was originally written and posted on DeviantART on Monday April 5, 2021. Before I get started talking about this movie and this review again, there are a few things I forgot to mention in the foreword of my last repost, and couldn’t find a place to edit them in, as well as some bad news for the blog, or rather one of the posts on my blog. If you read my last repost, which I hope you did, you’ll know that I talked about Gene Hackman’s death, specifically his actual cause of death. Because when I originally wrote the update to my Behind Enemy Lines review mentioning his death, and I didn’t know what the cause of death was. In fact, no body knew what the cause of death was. There was all this speculation and conspiracy theories about who or what caused his and his wife’s deaths, some people even suggesting it was a premeditated murder, like some murdered Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa. I never believed that, even back then, what I originally thought was that they died from a gas leak because everyone who wasn’t saying it was a murder was saying that they likely died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
But, a few weeks later, they did an autopsy and revealed the actual cause of death for both of them, as well as the order in which they died. They didn’t die at the same time as some had believed, they died separately and at different times. Betsy died first after contracting hantavirus (one of the scariest diseases ever 😬) from the rats 🐀 that were infesting their house, and she had been dead for several days, maybe even weeks before Gene Hackman died. I guess her body showed signs of decay that would indicate that she had been dead for a while because her body was in the house. She died in the house on the complete other side of it because they lived in a huge mansion and it’s easy to get lost or feel like you’re living two different houses when you live in a mansion like that. It’s easy to isolate yourself from the other people or the other person in the house because it is so big. And Gene Hackman was completely unaware that his wife had died and that her body was still in the house. Not that he would’ve been any help to her had he actually known what was happening to her (had he known that she had hantavirus), given his condition at the time.
Gene Hackman already had a bunch of health problems prior to his death, he had Alzheimer’s, advanced Alzheimer’s, and he had kidney disease, and it was heart disease 🫀 that ultimately did him in. I mean, he was in his 90s, he was 95 years old when he died, so that isn’t that surprising. When you get to that age, it becomes even harder to stay healthy because your body is so much weaker, your organs are no longer operating at their most optimal level, and you become more susceptible to diseases. That’s probably why most people don’t even make it to 90, let alone 95. Betsy was Gene Hackman’s primary caregiver, she was pretty much taking care of him in the final years of his life, just how grandma did in the final years of my grandpa’s life.
So, when she died, there was no one there to tend to him or take care of him, and so he succumbed to heart failure 🫀 died not long after. Due to his Alzheimer’s, he was probably unaware of what was happening to him, and even if he did catch on, it probably would’ve been too late, and had his wife still been alive when she had hantavirus, he won’t have been able to help her, he probably wouldn’t have even recognized her. And she probably stayed away from him and didn’t tell him that she was sick because she didn’t get him sick. But, by doing so, by staying on the other side of the house and not going to the hospital to get any sort of treatment, she pretty much sealed his fate, and ensured that he would die too after she died. She probably didn’t intend to do that, but that is essentially what she did not by isolating herself in the opposite side of the house from where he was.
They each died alone, isolated from each other other, unaware of each other’s death. It wasn’t as some had initially thought they died peacefully together in their sleep, holding hands 🤝 or something like that. It wasn’t like that. All this whole thing proved was that living in a giant mansion like that is definitely a bad idea, and that you should probably just live in a smaller and more modest house especially if it’s just two of you. It shouldn’t matter if you’re rich 🤑 and worth a million bucks 💵, it’s better to live in a smaller, more reasonable house than living in a gigantic opulent mansion so that you can keep a better eye on your partner and stay closer together because you never know what might happen to you or your partner and when you might need to get to them or they might need to get to you in a hurry. Better to be safe than sorry.
Also, keep rats 🐀 from getting into your house because you never know if they might be carrying hantavirus or not. And if you do contract hantavirus, then please, go to the doctor immediately and get some treatment for it, even though from what I understand, there is no actual cure for hantavirus and contracting it is a death sentence, like once you catch it, there’s nothing you can do about it, you’re dead. All you can do is accept your fate and die a horrible death. That’s maybe why Betsy did nothing about it after she caught it. She knew she was done before, and just accepted her fate and died in that part of the house. Though, from what that police at one press conference said, it seems like she may have been unaware that she had hantavirus. Though, I don’t know how you could be unaware considering that it mainly targets the kidneys. It’s a hemorrhagic disease.
I’m just glad this shut all the conspiracy theorists up that said they were murdered when they were not. But, conspiracy theorists never let up, they never admit that they’re wrong and they always double down and become more entrenched in their positions even when their positions are factually incorrect. But, even the conspiracy theorists won’t budge on this issue, I still felt a moral imperative to set the record straight and say how Gene Hackman died so that people won’t fall for misinformation or conspiracy theories.
But, I also forgot to mention Val Kilmer’s death in the foreword of my last repost. Val Kilmer died last week on Tuesday April 1, 2025 at age 65. The same day I finished and posted my Venom: The Last Dance review. Since it was April 1st, I wonder how people initially thought Val Kilmer died for real or thought it was a very morbid and ghoulish prank. But, I bet on the next day, Wednesday April 2, 2025, it really sunk in that Val Kilmer was dead for a real for a lot of people 😔 who were skeptical of the news because it happened on April Fool’s Day.
I didn’t learn about his death until a few days later. I think I learned about on either Thursday April 3, 2025 or Saturday April 5, 2025 because I was in Albuquerque at the time when I learned the news. It’s a shame, I liked Val Kilmer, I thought he was a good actor. I haven’t really seen a lot of the movies he was in. I haven’t even seen Batman Forever, or really any of the old Batman movies prior to Batman Begins. The only movies I’ve seen him in are the two Top Gun movies and Red Planet, a Mars movie that hardly anyone saw or remembers. I wrote a review of that movie on DeviantART and then reposted it last year if you’re interested in reading it.
I haven’t seen Tombstone, I haven’t seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 💋, I haven’t seen The Saint, I haven’t seen Real Genius, I haven’t seen Top Secret!, I haven’t seen Heat, I haven’t seen True Romance or Déjà Vu (2006), those two other Tony Scott movies he was, I haven’t Thunderheart ⚡️, I haven’t seen The Doors (1991), I haven’t seen Willow, I haven’t seen The Prince of Egypt 🇪🇬, I haven’t seen Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, I haven’t seen The Ghost and the Darkness, I haven’t seen MacGruber, and I haven’t seen The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), that Island of Dr. Moreau adaptation that was supposed to be directed by Richard Stanley but ended up being directed by John Frankenheimer instead and had one of the most troubled productions in history which Val Kilmer and co-star Marlon Brando contributed to and exasperated with their own shitty behavior.
But, I am interested in checking out at least some of those. Probably not The Doors (1991) because I refuse to watch anything directed by Oliver Stone after Snowden (2016) and JFK (1991), a film that perpetuated and exasperated a lot of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories that people still believe to this day. Plus, he made a documentary about Vladimir Putin that tried to paint him in a positive light, has appeared as a guest on the Russian propaganda network 🇷🇺 Russia Today 🇷🇺 (RT) at least a few times, and he sided with Putin and Russia 🇷🇺 in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦. He’s totally pro-Russia 🇷🇺 and pro-Putin, and I refuse to support anyone who is either one of those things or both.
The ones I’m the most interested in checking out are Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 💋, The Saint, True Romance, Déjà Vu (2006), Bad Lieutenant, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Prince of Egypt 🇪🇬, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) (or at least the documentary on it, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau), Heat, and of course, Tombstone. Tombstone is kind of a must see for anyone who wants to dig into Val Kilmer’s filmography in light of his recent passing. Everyone wants to be his huckleberry.
Sort of like with Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer already some ongoing health problems prior to his death, and it isn’t that surprising that he died. He was battling throat cancer which left him unable to speak without the aid of a electrolarynx (the same device that smokers 🚬 use to speak after their throat has been destroyed), and he was ultimately done in by pneumonia. The Amazon Prime documentary about Val Kilmer’s life and career, Val, went into a lot more detail about his cancer diagnosis. They even incorporated it in Top Gun: Maverick, though they depicted his character, Iceman 🧊 being able to speak without an electrolarynx which is what Val Kilmer in real life was reduced to.
They used AI as well as his son Jack Kilmer to recreate his voice for the movie, which is probably the one use of AI that I find even remotely acceptable. Besides that, AI can go fuck itself 🖕. Tom Cruise was adamant about having him in the movie despite his health condition, and did ultimately work it into the plot and worked into the character and character dynamic between Maverick and Iceman 🧊. It’s going to be kind of weird watching Top Gun: Maverick again, and watching that funeral scene now that he’s dead for real.
The next thing I wanted to mention in the foreword of my last repost but didn’t have place for was that I edited the update that I added to my post about Wylde Pak, the upcoming Nickelodeon cartoon show, or Nicktoon if you prefer, by Kyle Mitchell and Paul Watling last month. Basically, I changed the part where I talked about the Pak family business, the Groom & Board. Originally, I had said that it was a barber shop 💈 or salon 💇♂️, but it’s actually not. It’s actually a pet grooming place 🐕🐈🪮. They basically groom people’s pets.
I learned that after I watched that second 5 minute clip they released after the initial one they put out announcing the show’s premiere in June. The clip they just recently put out yesterday (Wednesday April 9, 2025) makes that even more clear. There’s no ambiguity about that. Once I realized my mistake, I went to the effort of going back and changing it so that it would reflect the reality of what their business so that my post would be accurate as possible, and wanted you all to know that I did that in case any of you go read that post for yourself. That’s just the kind of person that I am.
I also wanted to say that I plan on reviewing Mari-Kari, a horror web series that came out in 2010 and was put out by Fearnet, before being uploaded to YouTube by different people including as a compilation that edits all the episodes together into an 18 minute video. I have already watched this show as a kid, I think while my sisters were watching it, but don’t quote me on that. And I decided to rewatch it and review it for this blog after I started thinking about it again randomly a couple of weeks ago.
I have watched a few trailers that I want to write posts on, in the coming days after I post this and before I write my Man of Steel review and my Akira review. I’m only going to write about two of the ones that I saw because I don’t want the month of April to just be me talking about trailers like the months of February and March kind of were, and I have less to say about the other two so I’ll just write about them here. I’ll start with those first before announcing the ones that I intend on writing dedicated posts for.
First there’s the trailer to A Breed Apart, which is a killer dog movie 🐕. You don’t see many of those that often. It reminded me a lot of The Breed, a movie that may or may not be in and of itself inspired by another movie (The Killer Shrews) and that I consider watching and writing a review for this blog, in fact, they even say in the trailer that was inspired by The Breed. It even has that one actor from the Meg 🦈 movies, Page Kennedy. He sure likes being the stereotypical scared and cowardly black guy ♂︎ in these creature features (these killer animal movies). It doesn’t look that good, and I have no real interest in watching it. Next is the trailer for the new Walking With Dinosaurs series. I never grew up watching the original Walking With Dinosaurs, but I a lot of paleo fans were feeling nostalgic when they saw this trailer and are interested in checking out this new series. The comments underneath the trailer on YouTube are mostly positive. The fact that they decided to remake Walking With Dinosaurs with more up-to-date science just shows how important and influential this series was.
Since we’re remaking documentary series now, I hope that this paves the way for a remake of The Future Is Wild, the speculative evolution series that explored what life on Earth 🌎 would look like millions of years from now after humanity has mysteriously disappeared 🧐. They made an animated series out of The Future Is Wild, but I want to see a remake of the original that is an actual serious documentary series just like the original was but with more up-to-date science and even some new creatures that weren’t in the original or the animated series 😉. The two trailers that I plan on writing dedicated posts for are the trailer for Tron: Ares, the upcoming third Tron movie (making it a trilogy) and a standalone sequel to Tron: Legacy, and the trailer to Predator: Killer of Killers, the upcoming animated Predator anthology film from Dan Trachtenberg, the director of the highly acclaimed Predator prequel film, Prey (2022).
Also, it’s been over a week or so since I posted my post about Huey Li, and he still has not read it as far as I know. I posted a couple of comments on a couple of his most recent videos, but he never replied, and my post doesn’t have comments on it. So I can only assume that he hasn’t read it and is unaware of its existence. I just gave up on trying to post comments telling him to read my post, since it seems that Huey hasn’t been replying to anyone’s comments lately. The last video he ever replied to comments on was his NATO video, which is one of his best, including mine, which I included a screenshot of in the post itself. Since then, he hasn’t replied to any comments. The most he’s done is “love ❤️,” which is a feature on YouTube where you can “love ❤️” a person’s comment on your video and a heart ❤️ will appear next to it. I’ve kind of stuck to posting comments relating to the content itself.
The last one of his videos that I commented on was the one he uploaded recently on Trump and how his recent actions involving the tariffs and the firing of federal workers on mass using DOGE, mirrored that of Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution. He declared what DOGE was doing as a “digital Cultural Revolution.” I basically said that I couldn’t believe that see the parallels between Donald Trump and Mao Zedong until he pointed it out and thanked him for that, but I also threw shade at him for recommending people use ChatGPT to learn about the Cultural Revolution in China 🇨🇳.
Then before that, I posted a comment on his video talking about Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, you know the tariffs that he paused for 90 days yesterday (Wednesday April 9, 2025), which he declared the biggest Trump scandal yet. I brought up the fact that he put the highest tariff on Lesotho 🇱🇸 at 50%, a landlocked country that is entirely within the borders of South Africa 🇿🇦. South Africa 🇿🇦 just has a whole other country inside of it, a sovereign country with full UN membership 🇺🇳 and international recognition and everything. Everyone brought up the fact that Trump put tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands which are completely uninhabited by humans and only have penguins 🐧 on them. They aren’t even sovereign countries either since they’re owned by Australia 🇦🇺, Australia 🇦🇺 owns both the Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, so why did Trump put separate tariffs on them when they’d just fall under the tariff regime of Australia 🇦🇺.
But anyway, everyone kept bringing that up because of how ridiculous it was, but hardly anyone was bringing up the tariffs on Lesotho 🇱🇸, which I thought were just as ridiculous if not more than putting tariffs on a few penguin islands 🐧. Mostly because we hardly even trade with Lesotho 🇱🇸, we don’t buy any of their goods and they don’t buy any of ours, we’re not in the same market. The only things we get from Lesotho 🇱🇸 are diamonds 💎 and jeans 👖 because I just Lesotho 🇱🇸 has a textile industry where they make jeans 👖 and some of those jeans 👖 come here to the United States 🇺🇸.
Most Americans 🇺🇸 haven’t even heard of Lesotho 🇱🇸 either, something Trump himself acknowledged when he mocked the country by saying it was a country that hardly anyone heard of. But by putting tariffs on them, Trump is unintentionally informing people of its mere existence for the first time ever. So, good going? Huey used his video to bring up the tariffs on Cambodia 🇰🇭, which as he noted, is a very poor country and is also under an authoritarian government. Cambodia 🇰🇭 is a dictatorship and has been since the 1970s, though under vast different regimes throughout the decades since then. Huey didn’t mention that about Cambodia 🇰🇭 in his video.
I wonder if he’ll make a follow up video now that Trump has paused the tariffs for 90 days, in which he’ll announce them again and then pause them again after it causes panic and chaos in the markets. It’s just going to keep going on and on like this for as long as he’s president or until a recession happens for real due to the global economy buckling and crashing due to the volatility and uncertainty caused by Trump’s on again off again tariffs. Probably not, but it would be nice if he did make a follow up video. Just like it would be nice if he read my post I wrote about him.
And now for that bad news I was talking about. My Armageddon ☄️ review got flagged again, and now has a content warning on it. I don’t know why this happened, it already once before and I thought I resolved it, but now it’s back on. All I did was add a tag to it. I added the NASA tag since it’s a space movie and it heavily involves NASA. But, after I did that, then all of a sudden, it got flagged again, and I got an email from Blogger’s automated reply bot saying that my post was flagged and that it will have a content warning on it again unless I remove the inappropriate content that triggered the warning. I tried contacting the Blogger Team to see if I could get the content warning removed and what content would I need to remove to do that, but apparently, there’s no way to contact them directly. The only thing you can do is post a comment on the Blogger Help page. I got a comment on my question on Blogger Help that said all this, that there’s no way to contact the Blogger Team directly, and that I’m shit out of luck to get the content warning removed on my post.
I like Blogger, I think it’s good platform, and I have no regrets about migrating here full time, but man, do they have some of the worst customer service I’ve ever seen 😑. They’re worse than YouTube when it comes to supporting their creators or hearing them out since there’s no way to contact the Blogger Team like you can Team YouTube. So, if you stumble upon on my Armageddon ☄️ review while exploring this blog, and you wonder why it has a content warning on it, that’s why. It was false flagged. It was flagged for no reason.
There’s nothing sex or inappropriate in it, and when they say “inappropriate content,” they usually just mean sexual content. There’s nothing sexual or pornographic about that post in the slightest. I removed all the bits that could be construed as sexual or pornographic, and it still did nothing. I’m at a loss, that’s the only post I’ve had problems with. I would’ve expected this from my Huey Li post since I talk about sex, reproduction, and say the words “sperm” and “semen,” and yet this one review that I posted a year ago is the one that gets hit with a content warning. I might as well have just reposted all of the stuff I wrote on DeviantART about Meru the Succubus like I originally planned 🤦♂️.
Now, onto the main topic at hand. Sorry about that, it took longer to write about all that other stuff than I thought it would. But, now I’m finally going to talk about Godzilla vs. Kong, the fourth film in the MonsterVerse, the big event that the whole MonsterVerse up until that point was building up to. It was The Avengers of the MonsterVerse, or perhaps the Batman v Superman or Captain America: Civil War 🇺🇸 of the MonsterVerse. Except Godzilla and Kong actually fight one more time than Batman and Superman do in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Batman and Superman only fight one time in that entire movie, and that movie is 2 hours and 31 minutes for the theatrical version and 3 hours and 2 minutes for the Ultimate Edition.
And while Iron Man and Captain America 🇺🇸 fight each other twice in Civil War 🇺🇸, neither one is a one-on-one fight. The first time, they fight as apart of two opposing teams, one team that is in support of the Sokovia Accords and is trying to capture/kill Bucky and one that is against the Accords and is trying to protect Bucky. Then the second time, it’s a three-on-one fight where Iron Man goes against the combined force of Captain America 🇺🇸 and the Winter Soldier (AKA Bucky Barnes).
But in this movie, when Godzilla and Kong fight each other, each time it is a one-on-one fight with no interruptions by any other monster. And then after the second fight in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 (get it? Because the character’s name is Kong and it’s a city with Kong in its name 😉) and after Godzilla is declared the winner, the two begrudgingly team up to fight Mechagodzilla, the real main antagonist of this movie, the final boss you might say. He was to this movie what Doomsday was to Batman v Superman.
I was actually skeptical that Mechagodzilla was going to be in the movie before it came out, I was even saying that the movie didn’t need a third monster and it could’ve just been Godzilla and Kong fighting and I would be satisfied. But, I’m glad that I was proven wrong because this version of Mechagodzilla was excellent. One of the best takes on the character yet, and he’s back to being a villain again after we the fans got to see used to seeing the character be portrayed as a hero, in both the Heisei series and the Millennium series with Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (known in Japan 🇯🇵 as just Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1993)) and the Kiryu Saga.
Yeah, yeah, I know that Mechagodzilla was in Ready Player One and he was a bad guy in that too, but that doesn’t really count, and I know that he was in the Monster Planet trilogy and was a good guy in that (he was a literal city in that, a robotic smart city, and not even a robot mech), but we at least got him as a bad guy in a legit Godzilla movie. Even if this is more of a Kong movie than a Godzilla movie admittedly. Speaking of which, it was satisfying to see Kong be the one to take him out and not Godzilla, especially after Kong got his ass beat by Godzilla and almost died as a result. Something that I didn’t know or realize about the MonsterVerse Mechagodzilla when I originally wrote this review is that at the end of the movie, he was being controlled by that Ghidorah skull that Apex Cybernetics was using to pilot the robot.
Some of Ghidorah’s consciousness was left behind in that skull, so when they hooked it up to Mechagodzilla and used it to meld the pilot’s brain 🧠 with Mechagodzilla’s CPU, and then they charged him up with the energy from the Hollow Earth 🌏, Ghidorah was able to take full control of the giant mecha and use it to try to kill Godzilla. So, it was King Ghidorah in there, and he was out for revenge. That makes the whole ending even better in my opinion.
And as many fans have pointed out, you can tell when Mechagodzilla being controlled by Ghidorah and when he isn’t by the sound of his roar. When he’s not controlled by him, his roar sounds like an electronic version of Godzilla’s roar, but when he is being controlled by him, his roar sounds like an electronic version of Ghidorah’s roar. That’s really nice touch. It’s kind of like how in Spider-Man 2 where you could tell when Doc Ock’s mechanical arms were in control and when he was in control by the color of the lights in their camera eye things. If the lights were white, Dr. Octavius was in control, but when the lights were red, the arms were in control.
Still, that doesn’t explain how Apex got the skull in the first place. Like, why would Alan Jonah (Charles Dance’s character in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)) sell the head to Apex? I thought he would’ve had this own plans for it, given that he was apparently an ecoterrorist who was against corporations like Apex. Unless, he was lying about his environmentalist beliefs and was just in it for the money 💵 or any opportunity to cause chaos on a global scale. That, or maybe he did buy the Ghidorah head from those black market dealers in Isla de Mara in the post credit scene for King of the Monsters, and was going to use it for something, but Apex stole it from him. They are a pretty evil and unscrupulous company, and I could see them doing something like that. I don’t know if that’s the explanation in the tie-in prequel comic or the novelization or not. Please let me know in the comments if you’re someone who reads the ancillary material for the MonsterVerse. Either way, it doesn’t really add up.
Also, Ren Serizawa’s reasons for joining Apex and piloting Mechagodzilla are not entirely made clear in the film. Apparently, he joined Apex and the Mechagodzilla program because he resented his father, Ishirō Serizawa for caring so much about the Titans, and Godzilla specifically. He felt that he gave more attention to Godzilla than he did to him, and indeed, Dr. Serizawa probably did neglect his son a bit because he was so consumed by his work. That seems to be a common trait amongst Monarch employees, especially on the scientific side of Monarch. So, after he died, Ren dedicated himself to destroying Godzilla and all other Titans, the things that his dad cherished the most and dedicated his life to.
That’s a really compelling motivation, it makes Ren a more sympathetic villain, I just wish that it was communicated more in the film. In the movie, he kinda just comes across a generic henchman. It’s not even acknowledged that he’s Dr. Serizawa’s son. All this information that I just explained to you is mostly conveyed in the ancillary material, probably the novelization or the tie-in comic. Also, Serizawa isn’t dead apparently, like he is still alive, that energy surge that happened when the Hollow Earth 🌏 radiation was pumped into Mechagodzilla and King Ghidorah took over Mechagodzilla didn’t kill him. All it did was transfer some of Ghidorah’s consciousness inside of him. So, even after Mechagodzilla was destroyed, a little piece of King Ghidorah still remains and it’s inside a human now. A human possessed by the consciousness of a three-headed electricity breathing space dragon ⚡️.
Some people did wonder after watching this why Godzilla was so aggressive and why did they make him an antagonist for most of the movie? Adam Wingard did change how Godzilla was portrayed in these movies, no question about that, but I don’t think it goes against how the character was portrayed in the previous movies. I think does fit his character and where his character arc was going after the events of King of the Monsters (2019). The way I see it, this is a prideful Godzilla, this is an egotistical Godzilla who is drunk on his own vanity after being crowned king of the monsters and the Alpha Titan, master of the surface world. That combined with his territorial tendencies, and you got a Godzilla who’s more aggressive and confrontational as he tries to defend his title and status as the king of the monsters and Alpha Titan by tearing down anyone who he perceives is as a threat to his rule.
He specifically goes after Kong, not because of the war between his and Kong’s species and the already existing mistrust, but he also perceives Kong as the only other monster who could actually take his place as the Alpha Titan. Kong may not be as strong or as durable, but he is tenacious and doesn’t give up, even when gets knocked down, he at least tries to get back up and keep fighting. He also doesn’t bow to any other Titans, he doesn’t want to submit to Godzilla or be killed by him in a humiliating way, he’ll stand his ground to bitter end and die like a warrior with honor and dignity. That’s apparently what he was doing or saying when he and Godzilla roar at each other in the final fight, he was telling, no, demanding Godzilla to just finish him off right then and there, and Godzilla respected that and decided to spare his life and let him die with his honor and dignity intact because he knew that even if he didn’t kill him, Kong was going to die anyway.
Kong got messed up during that fight, the injuries he sustained during the fight as the stress of it all nearly almost killed him, and he would’ve died had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Nathan Hind, Dr. Ilene Andrews, and Jia, restarting his heart 🫀 by using the HEAV they escaped from the Hollow Earth 🌏 in as a defibrillator. I imagine the next movie after Godzilla x Kong will be about Godzilla getting humbled, or at least, that’s what it should be about since it’s going to probably be a more Godzilla centric after these last two MonsterVerse movies have been Kong centric. He’s Kong anymore, he’s King Kong now that he lives in the Hollow Earth 🌎 and is the leader of that tribe of giant apes that had been enslaved by Skar King.
A lot of Godzilla fans specifically haven’t liked that these two movies, Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire have focused more on Kong and not Godzilla and that Godzilla has been pushed to the sidelines and made into more of a supporting player. I personally never had an issue because I like the MonsterVerse Kong so much and it’s nice to have a continuity where Kong doesn’t die and is allowed to live and find a new home and family, but a lot of Godzilla fans have been feeling left out. This franchise, this cinematic universe, did start out with Godzilla after all. So, I’m sure Legendary Pictures is making this next film (whatever it’ll be called) to address those concerns, by making Godzilla the main focus (the main protagonist) once again.
Speaking of the Hollow Earth 🌏, this movie finally introduced the Hollow Earth 🌏 after it had just been mentioned and teased at in Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). And it is glorious! It’s such a fascinating and cool world, easily beats Pandora in the Avatar movies by a long shot. I mean, did Pandora have a giant gliding snake looking thing with wings, or weird bat bird things, or Doug? Gotta love Doug. He’s what holds these movies together 🫶. I think not. And then Hollow Earth 🌎 gets expanded on in Godzilla x Kong, we see more of it, and we even more crazy and cool looking creatures like those lightning pterosaur things ⚡️, or the big frog thing 🐸 that catfishes Kong, or those wolf things that Kong eats, or the Drownviper, that giant eel-like creature that Kong fights in that lake and then kills and eats along with Suko.
I did rewatch this movie, Godzilla vs. Kong, around the time that Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire came out, like I watched it either the day before or two days before I watched Godzilla x Kong, and still holds up. It’s still a great movie. In fact, there are at least a couple things that I liked about it more in comparison to Godzilla x Kong. Like, I like the opening title sequence for Godzilla vs. Kong more than I do the one for Godzilla x Kong. I mean, I still like the opening title sequence for Godzilla x Kong, but it’s a good in a different way. It serves a bit of a different purpose in that movie than the one in Godzilla vs. Kong. The one in Godzilla vs. Kong, is more ominous, it’s more mysterious, and it’s meant to build hype for the big fight between Godzilla and Kong, and also intrigue audiences in the mystery surrounding the Hollow Earth 🌏. It’s very well done. The music, the voice clips, the redacted text, it’s brilliant, chef’s kiss.
Also, this movie has some best CGI in the entire MonsterVerse so far, in fact, it has some of the best CGI I’ve seen in a modern blockbuster, in a 2020s blockbuster. The fact that it wasn’t nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is a crime. I mean, Godzilla still got an Oscar in the end, but for a different movie, Godzilla Minus One, but it would’ve been nice if Godzilla vs. Kong had been nominated for that same award. Or Godzilla x Kong for that matter, both movies were snubbed by the Academy in favor of Minus One. I saw this really dumb video on YouTube talking about why blockbusters cost so much now (as in, why they are they becoming so expensive to make), and the person who made that video said that this movie had bad CGI in comparison to Godzilla Minus One despite it having a bigger budget.
And I was utterly dumbfounded, like what the hell are you talking about? And I basically left a comment saying something to that effect, and I was glad to see people in agreement with me and liking my comment 👍 and giving it a positive reply. I mean, if you want to say that Godzilla Minus One is a better movie than Godzilla vs. Kong and you prefer it over Godzilla vs. Kong, that’s fine, but don’t blatantly lie and say that Godzilla vs. Kong has bad CGI when everyone with functioning eyes 👀 can see that it doesn’t. That’s disingenuous, you’re arguing in bad faith when you do that.
Was the third act being set entirely in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 meant to appeal to China 🇨🇳? Yes. Was Hong Kong 🇭🇰 chosen because it was the only Chinese city 🇨🇳 that the filmmakers were allowed to show destruction of? Yes. But, I also think, and I said this before, that Hong Kong 🇭🇰 was chosen as the location for the final battle because the character’s name is Kong, King Kong. What better place to put him in than a city with Kong in its name? It’s meant to be a fun little gag or pun. Like, “haha, I see what you did there 👈😄.” But, if Trump keeps these 145% tariffs on China 🇨🇳, then China 🇨🇳 will ban all Hollywood films from being shown in the country, and we won’t have to see or deal with anymore of this China pandering 🇨🇳 from Hollywood. It could also mean that we see less blockbusters (costing $100 million 💵 or more) getting made, but eh, that’s a trade off most people are willing to make.
Speaking of which, I learned recently that the final battle in Godzilla x Kong was originally going to be set in Russia 🇷🇺, Moscow specifically, and not Rio de Janeiro in Brazil 🇧🇷. But, because of the ongoing war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 between Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦, they decided to change it to a different city out of fear that it would be viewed as insensitive, and also they didn’t want to reward Russia 🇷🇺 for its war of aggression by releasing one of their movies there. And they chose Rio de Janeiro as the replacement because why not? Rio is fun. That’s why Fast Five was set in Rio, and why Blue Sky Studios made an animated talking bird movie set in Rio and also called Rio. There’s even a scene in the movie, Geostorm that’s set in Rio, where pretty the same thing happens, Rio freezes over 🥶. There’s even a shot that’s lifted straight from that movie where we see a wave 🌊 freeze ❄️ in place and turn into ice 🧊.
Did Adam Wingard get the idea for that whole scene where Shimo freezes a wave 🌊 and turns it into ice 🧊, and then causes an ice storm ❄️ in Rio that destroys a beach 🏖️ full of beach goers from Geostorm? Is it that the idea of having Rio de Janeiro, a normally hot place 🥵 suddenly become cold 🥶, so obvious and funny in its irony that Adam Wingard and Dean Devlin each came up with it independently? Considering the shot of the wave 🌊 freezing over 🧊 is almost shot-for-shot exactly the same as the one in Geostorm, I do think Adam Wingard did something from that movie. But, since we now know that the final battle was supposed to take place in Moscow originally, he obviously didn’t get the idea for that entire scene from Geostorm.
Also, since the fight was going to take place in Moscow before they switched it to Rio, the contrast wouldn’t have been there. One of things that makes the Rio sequence so ingenious is that Shimo, a Titan with ice powers ❄️, lands in a city with a hot tropical climate 🏖️, and Skar King uses it as the epicenter to start the new ice age 🧊 with Shimo’s freezing abilities ❄️. But, Moscow, as well as the rest of Russia 🇷🇺, is known for being cold 🥶, so having it the origin of the new ice age 🧊 isn’t visually striking, there isn’t as much of a contrast because you’re just making an already cold place 🥶 colder 🥶. But, in another way, it does still make sense, since Russia 🇷🇺 is cold 🥶, Moscow is cold 🥶, what a more fitting place a for a new ice age 🧊 to begin?
I wish that I could’ve seen this in theaters because it would’ve been amazing to see this in theaters, especially IMAX, or RPX, or even Cinemark XD, Cinemark’s large format theater. Like a lot of people I had to see this on HBO Max, back when it was still called HBO Max, because it was still the pandemic 🦠😷. This movie was originally supposed to come out in 2020, a year after Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was released, despite the movie itself being set in 2024, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic 🦠😷, it got delayed and pushed back to 2021, so it ended up being a 2021 release instead. And Warner Bros. decided to release their movies both on HBO Max and in theaters simultaneously, so Godzilla vs. Kong was in theaters at the same time that it was on HBO Max. But, I wasn’t one of the people who got to see it in theaters, I had to watch it on HBO Max like the majority of people.
But, despite this minor setback and handicap, Godzilla vs. Kong was still a huge success. It grossed over $470.1 million 💵 against its estimated $155 million to $200 million budget 💵, and was the biggest movie on HBO Max right up until Mortal Kombat (2021) came out and took its place, utterly shattering its record. Which, BTW, Mortal Kombat (2021) was another 2020 movie that got delayed and pushed back to 2021 due to the pandemic 🦠😷. It was for a time, the highest grossing MonsterVerse film after Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was the lowest, right up until Godzilla x Kong came out and outdid its own box office numbers. King of the Monsters (2019) is still the lowest grossing MonsterVerse film though.
I wonder if King of the Monsters (2019)’s box office failure and Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong’s box office successes sent the message to WB and Legendary that those movies only succeeded because they had King Kong in them. It made them think that’s where the real big bucks 💵 are made. Like, “just doing a Godzilla movie doesn’t work, but if we put King Kong in it, then it’ll make a whole lot of money 💵 🤑.” That’s why the immediate followup to Godzilla vs. Kong was another Godzilla/Kong combo, it’s why they’re putting Kong in Season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and it’s why I won’t be surprised if the next MonsterVerse movie is another Godzilla and Kong movie, even if more emphasis will be put on Godzilla to please the Godzilla fans who felt the Big G was being neglected in these past two movies.
I would be genuinely surprised if it was another Godzilla solo movie and Kong wasn’t it, or if they did another Kong solo movie, which would pretty dope. We need more Kong movies that aren’t just about people going to Skull Island and discovering Kong for the first time along with the other creatures on Skull Island, and then take Kong off the island and exploit him for monetary gain 🤑. Give me something like King Kong Escapes but with modern special effects and sensibilities. Give me Mechani-Kong. I say that, but even King Kong Escapes was still kind of a retelling of the same King Kong story except it’s not on Skull Island, it’s on Mondo Island, Kong is taken off the island not for entertainment or advertising purposes, but to dig for a radioactive mineral ☢️ (Element X), and there’s a robot mecha version of Kong called Mechani-Kong. Oh, and Kong doesn’t die either, that is a huge distinction that separates it from the traditional King Kong story where Kong always dies.
But, now that Kong in the MonsterVerse is in Hollow Earth 🌎 now and has a whole tribe of giant apes (more members of his species) to lead, coming up with new and unique stories with Kong shouldn’t be a problem. I still want to see a modern interpretation of Mechani-Kong though, that character hasn’t been in a movie since King Kong Escapes and that was 58 years ago. The closest thing we got was that robotic mecha ape from Godzilla: The Series called Robo-Yeti, the one that was created and piloted by that female Japanese scientist 🇯🇵♀︎ who was named after Akira Ifukube, the music composer on the majority of the Shōwa era Godzilla films.
Whatever the next MonsterVerse movie will be, it won’t be directed by Adam Wingard. Despite him directing the two most successful films in the MonsterVerse so far, he won’t come back to direct the next one because he’s too busy working on another gig, a horror film for A24 called Onslaught. Instead, the next MonsterVerse movie will be directed by a guy ♂︎ named Grant Sputore (he’s Australian 🇦🇺), whose only other work besides this was I Am Mother, which was a sci-fi movie released on Netflix, starring Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne, and Hilary Swank, as well as a guy ♂︎ named Luke Hawker, and a couple of movies he produced (executively produced in the case of one of them) but didn’t direct called The Furnace and We Bury the Dead. The latter of which was released a month ago this year in Australia 🇦🇺, on Sunday March 9, 2025 (Daylight Savings Time for the US 🇺🇸). It premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival and was released, presumably, in theaters nationwide in Australia 🇦🇺. And it will be released in America 🇺🇸 next year, in 2026. The year before the next MonsterVerse movie comes out. It also stars Daisy Ridley. Glad she’s finding work after being in Star Wars.
To this day, Godzilla vs. Kong is the only MonsterVerse movie that I did not get to see in theaters when it originally came out. It’s a miracle that I got to see Godzilla x Kong in theaters (even though I don’t believe in miracles) given how expensive the theater going experience has become in the post-pandemic world. Here’s hoping I get to see the next MonsterVerse in theaters 🤞.
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(This is the poster for Godzilla vs. Kong.)
Well guys, I've finally watched Godzilla vs. Kong after waiting for, I don't know, 7 years since it was first announced after the semi-success of Godzilla (2014), and what did I think of it? I thought it was pretty good. It delivered on what it promised which is Godzilla and Kong fighting it out. I wouldn't say it's better than Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), but I would say it's better than Godzilla (2014) and about on the same level as Kong: Skull Island. I would also say that it's better than the original 1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla, or at least, it has way better fight scenes. But, I can't be too harsh on King Kong vs. Godzilla, you know, it is definitely old school, but it where this whole thing started after all; so you got to show it some respect.
I guess, I should talk a little bit about the plot of this movie since I've kind of talked about my general thoughts on the movie, and how I feel about it compared to the other movies in the MonsterVerse franchise. The basic plot of this movie is that Godzilla is starting to act more aggressively and hostile towards humans, and is attacking cities and research facilities, particularly ones run by a shady robotics/cybernetics corporation called Apex Cybernetics (when are cybernetic/robotic corporations in movies not shady?).
No body really knows why Godzilla is attacking despite him saving the world twice, but this one Internet conspiracy theorist podcaster guy named Bernie thinks that it's because of a big giant crazy conspiracy involving Apex, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it; even if some of his theories are probably not that true. Madison Russell, the daughter of Mark and Emma Russell from KOTM, gets in on the action and actively seeks out Bernie along with her British friend, Josh (he has a British accent, but he goes to the same school as her, which is in Florida, must be a foreign exchange student or the son of an immigrant family) to get some answers about Apex and Godzilla.
Meanwhile, Kong has been contained inside of a Monarch Outpost on Skull Island which is led by a scientist named Dr. Ilene Andrews (the Kong equivalent of Jane Goodall). The reason why she wants to keep Kong sealed inside of this Monarch Outpost is that she wants to keep him hidden from Godzilla because she knows that if Kong is out and about, then Godzilla will sense him and actively seek him out to confront and kill him. They're both Alpha Titans, and there could only be one ruling the planet, and Godzilla has every intention of being the top Alpha Titan. One day, Dr. Andrews is met by a disgraced former Monarch scientist, Dr. Nathan Lind who was hired by Apex to find a special energy source in the Hollow Earth 🌏, and he wants to use Kong to find it since he theorizes that only a Titan can locate it.
Andrews is reluctant at first, thinking that letting Kong out of the Outpost will only put him in danger, but Lind convinces her by telling her that this is for the good of mankind and for the good of Kong. So, she lets Kong out of the dome Outpost, they put him on giant ship (like one of those big shipping container ships), and transport him to the Hollow Earth entrance in Antarctica. While she tags along with Lind on this expedition, and takes this little girl ♀︎ named Jia with her because she's like a guardian to her, and she's the only one that can legit communicate with Kong; through sign language. Eventually, Godzilla and Kong cross paths with each other, and immediately start dunking it out with each other in what is the most ferocious titanic conflict of the 21st century. Just who will come out on top? The King of the Monsters or the King of Skull Island?
Right off the bat, the thing that struck me about this movie is that it is definitely a Kong story. He is by the far the monster that the movies focuses the most on, he's the one you empathize with the most, and he is the one that goes through the most complete arc; if kaiju can even have character arcs. This movie (more so than Kong: Skull Island) definitively showed that the MonsterVerse Kong is by far the most intelligent one that has ever appeared on film. I mean, we're talking about a Kong that can understand and communicate in sign language, can recognize humans, can use weapons and tools, and can plan and strategize almost like a human. Godzilla is more of a supporting character in this movie, he doesn't have a lot of screen time compared to Kong, and he's positioned firmly as the antagonist through most of it, which is something I kind of expected.
I mean, they kind of hinted at the idea that Godzilla would turn on humanity at some point at the end of KOTM. So, if you were hoping this movie would focus mostly on Godzilla, and be a Godzilla story with Kong in it, then you might be a little disappointed. This is a Kong story that has Godzilla in it, and Godzilla is the bad guy for most of it. There aren't even any other Toho monsters in this movie besides Godzilla and Mechagodzilla (who I will get to soon), like there is no Rodan or Mothra, despite people making "Save Mothra/Mothra, Why did you say that name!?" jokes (parodying the "Martha" line from Batman v. Superman).
It's also the most fantastical story of all the MonsterVerse films so far, like while KOTM pretty much killed the whole "realistic/gritty/grounded in reality" thing started by 2014, this film took it a step further with the Hollow Earth stuff and Apex tech. It's pretty much it's own separate world from our own with a lot of fantasy elements (like I'm talking Journey to the Center of the Earth and even Lord of the Rings kind of stuff), and I'm okay with that. While I do like the dark, realistic, and serious approach to Godzilla and King Kong as much as the next guy ♂︎, I don't require every Godzilla/ Kong film universe to be like that. It can more fantastical, weird, and "campy" and that's what this movie does, it brings the campy, fantasy, and weird side of Godzilla into a big-budget modern Hollywood film. But, hey, if you don't like any of that stuff, at least, we finally get some proper Godzilla city destruction where he's just tearing through buildings and blowing stuff up with his atomic breath like in the old films.
Speaking of city destruction, the fight scenes are probably the best aspect of this movie like even movie reviewers who criticize the story and the human characters/story, praise the monster action. It was just so awesome seeing Godzilla and Kong go at each other in such a brutal and animalistic way, and I like that we see them fight in places where they each have the advantage. The first fight is in the ocean, so Godzilla obviously has the advantage, and the second fight is on land, in a city (an urban jungle if you will), so Kong has the advantage especially after he gets that ax that's powered by the special energy from the Hollow Earth 🌏. One thing that's kind of disappointing and kind of false advertising on the part of director, Adam Wingard is that there is no clear winner by the end of it.
I mean, Kong is pinned down by Godzilla at the end of the second fight, and Godzilla roars at him while his foot is pressing down on his chest and his claws are digging into his skin. But, Godzilla doesn't kill him, he spares his life kind of (Kong is still barely alive at the end of the night battle, but his heart starts slowing and he begins dying), and just walks off. And then, when Mechagodzilla shows up and starts kicking Godzilla's ass, Dr. Lind revives Kong using the Hollow Earth energy 🌏 stored in one of those futuristic helicopter things created by Apex, and then Kong joins the fight on Godzilla's side, helping him defeat Mechagodzilla. And then, after he defeats Mechagodzilla (not Godzilla), him and Godzilla have a truce, and go their separate ways. I guess, the part where Godzilla pins Kong to ground at the end of the night battle was the victory, and the day battle against Mechagodzilla was a separate thing, but it didn't really feel like it.
It didn't feel like a clear cut victory like "Hey, Godzilla totally won and Kong totally lost," they still did it in a way where it's still sort of up to interpretation, and I can definitely see fans debating about the fight and who actually won for many years to come. A definitive victory to me would be if one of them died or if one them retreated away with their tail between their legs. But, there's no way for them to have a complete decisive victory and have them still be alive to fight a common enemy. But, I guess, for all intents and purposes, Godzilla won for all those petty and annoying Godzilla fans who desperately wanted him to win to prove his superiority to King Kong, and to have a more "logical" outcome than having Kong defeat him like in the 1962 film; which ended in very much the same way with a definitive winner, but not really.
(This is a comment that I saw underneath a clip from Godzilla vs. Kong talking Kong losing the second fight in Hong Kong 🇭🇰. And he did lose, pretty decisively, despite what I said in this review from 4 years ago.)
Speaking of Mechagodzilla, I guess I should probably address that before I wrap this up. I guess, all those people who said that Mechagodzilla was going to be in this movie were right, and I was wrong. I didn't think Mechagodzilla was actually going to be in this movie because it seemed too much like a fanciful fan idea that wasn't realistic at all, it seemed like it was too much for this movie, and it seemed unnecessary. But, I was wrong, Mechagodzilla was in it after all. Though, I already knew about it ahead of it because I had a clip of a scene in the movie with Mechagodzilla recommended to me on YouTube, and I saw all kinds of videos from shitty Godzilla YouTube channels talking about how Mechagodzilla was definitely in this movie. Thanks a lot, YouTube and dumbass YouTubers, you ruined something that could've been an amazing surprise while watching the movie.
I still don't think Mechagodzilla was entirely necessary for this movie, it didn't really need him to be the final bad guy for Godzilla and Kong to team up to fight. The confrontation between Godzilla and Kong was enough of a conflict to carry this movie, and it is mostly what the movie focuses on and what most fans, critics, and audiences care about. But, I guess, having it just be about Godzilla and Kong fighting each other was too simple of a conflict for this movie, so they had to add Mechagodzilla in there to make the story a little bit more complex; but if it were up to me, I would've just had it be Godzilla and Kong and no other monsters, except for the Skullcrawlers and those winged serpent creatures that Kong fights in the Hollow Earth 🌏.
But, for what it's worth, Mechagodzilla was pretty badass in this movie, he had some cool weaponry especially that red laser breath he has, and managed to give Godzilla a run for his money and even damage him a little bit. I like that they made him the bad guy and not a hero again like he was in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1993) or the Kiryu Saga, it's about time that they switch things up and bring him back to his roots as a pure villain. I also like they didn't just reuse the design from Ready Player One, and they actually gave him a new design specifically for this movie.
And I like that design doesn't just look exactly like the MonsterVerse Godzilla just in robot form, he's a lot slimmer and somewhat block-ier than that universe's version of Godzilla; he looks like a robot that imitates Godzilla, but it doesn't look like an exact carbon copy of him. However, I do think some fans will be disappointed that it's Kong that ultimately defeats Mechagodzilla and not Godzilla. Sure, Godzilla helps by charging Kong's ax with his atomic breath, but he doesn't delivering the finishing blows to Mechagodzilla, and I'm sure many fans wanted Godzilla to deliver the final blows since Mechagodzilla is his enemy, not Kong's.
They might also be disappointed by what happens with the Ghidorah head that was salvaged at the end of KOTM. They hinted there would be some pretty big things up ahead with that Ghidorah head, maybe it would be a full return of King Ghidorah with his body fully regenerated or maybe even Mecha-King Ghidorah; with the surviving head being the only one that's flesh while the other two are fully robotic. But, no, the head just gets stripped down to the bone, and it gets turned into a cockpit/neural network thing by Apex to pilot Mechagodzilla.
Unless, that isn't the same head from the after credits scene of KOTM, and it's a different head, but the only other Ghidorah head that survived was literally obliterated by Godzilla. So, it seemed like that one from the after credit scene was the only one that was left; the last remaining piece of King Ghidorah. How did Apex get their hands on it? Didn't Charles Dance's character purchase it from those guys from Isla de Mara? What happened to him? Where is he during all this? These are some of the questions that have been raised by the appearance of that Ghidorah skull in the movie, and I don't think they'll be answered any time soon.
But, besides all that, I still would like to see Biollante in this universe since I think she would fit right in especially since the humans are now creating weapons to fight the Titans. Maybe, Biollante could be created by Apex as another attempt to kill Godzilla or maybe she's created by another company, a rival company to Apex that focuses exclusively on biotechnology and it could be like a commentary on how biotechnology and cybernetic/robotic/computer technology are clashing with each other for supremacy of the future; I'm personally rooting for biotechnology in this case. But, that's only if the MonsterVerse continues after this, and there are more Godzilla and Kong films.
Speaking of which, I don't even know if there will be at this point. The movie had been delayed so many times, and it came out during the time when movie theaters still aren't fully opened yet (they're still closed in a lot of places), so I really don't know if this movie will even be financially successful enough to warrant sequels. The rights to Godzilla and the other Toho licensed characters may just revert back to Toho, and Legendary will be forced to close out this franchise for good; unless they continue the franchise but just with Kong, but that's kind of unlikely.
But, luckily, the movie doesn't end in a way that's sequel bait-y and needs more films to complete the story unlike a certain other movie I watched recently [Monster Hunter], they end it in a way where the franchise could stop there and it would be satisfying enough. But, I am hoping this movie's successful enough to allow the MonsterVerse to continue so that we can we see more monsters (either original or Toho), and we can have a truly definitive and spectacular finale to Godzilla and Kong's story.
Well, that's all I have to say about this movie, I think it's pretty good and enjoyable. Sure, it doesn't live up to all fan expectations or live up to the overall hype, but it was never going to, and we probably shouldn't have expected it to. The special effects and the fight scenes were amazing, probably some of the best of the whole MonsterVerse series. I thought the human characters were fine, I really don't know what all the critics are complaining about. And although I feel Mechagodzilla was a bit unnecessary, I did think he was well handled, and I did enjoy the scenes he was in. My recommendation is, go watch it especially if you are a Godzilla or King Kong fan or you're fan of monster movies in general, or if you just like awesome action and special effects. Thanks for reading, and good night.
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