By Geno McGahee
The epic battle has happened. Godzilla and King Kong have thrown down in the latest installment of this monster movie series, crossing over two of the most popular beasts ever to grace the big screen. In 2014, Godzilla was reborn and has been on a good run with GODZILLA and the 2019 follow up, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. Both films were pretty good and were a lot closer to the source material than the 1998 film, but I did dig that one.
In 2005, KING KONG was released, which was tremendous, and followed up with KONG SKULL ISLAND in 2017. I don’t believe that they are directly connected, but I tend to watch them back to back and that’s good enough for me.
In GODZILLA VS. KONG, we begin with Godzilla destroying an entire city, focusing mostly on a large corporation that is developing some top secret stuff. Godzilla was supposed to protect and keep the peace, but he has having a really bad day and it wasn’t getting much better.
Walter Simmons (Demian Bichir) is the boss of the corporation and he sees the need to create something to defeat the monsters should they decide to turn on humanity and sees potential in an energy that is somewhere in the core of the earth. He approaches Nathan (Alexander Skarsgard), an author with a theory about the energy, and the two decide to seek it, but they’ll need help. King Kong is attracted to it and will lead the way.
King Kong is a sensitive guy, often befriending some human. He does it all the time. He hasn’t learned yet that humans will fuck you in the ass the second you let your guard down, but that’s a testament to how nice he is. In this film, he is BFFs with Jia (Kaylee Hottle), a young girl that communicates with him with sign language. I wonder how this began. Who came up with the idea of allowing a young girl to be alone with Kong? Kong may be a nice ape, but he can also fuck shit up. It seems rather dangerous to put a child in that situation.
To add to the danger, they allow Jia to join Nathan and Ilene (Rebecca Hall) on the trip to the center of the earth. Joining them is another team led by Walter’s amazingly hot daughter, Maya (Eiza Gonzalez), but she’s bitchy. Usually, I don’t find bitchy people attractive, but this was an exception here, but why would Walter send his daughter into this potentially deadly situation? Why not send one of his top guys at the company? He has to have some kiss ass that would do it gladly, or some guy that would take the chance for a lot of money, but he sends his daughter? It doesn’t seem right.
Underground conspiracy podcaster, Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry), teams up with Madison (Millie Bobby Brown) and Josh (Julian Dennison), to infiltrate the corporation and this was rather unbelievable. Hayes did work for the company and could know the ins and outs of how to get in undetected, but I’ve worked for places that dealt with shit that wasn’t nearly as top secret as this company does and the security was way tighter.
The trio walked around everywhere in areas that should have been protected by armed guards and it wasn’t. They eventually get caught and brought to Walter and he then shows them the whole deal, including his creation, Mechagodzilla. I don’t blame him. I would have been proud of it too.
Godzilla and Kong have an epic battle in the city and it’s much fun. The fun factor of this movie is through the roof. I was sort of disappointed with the eventual winner of the match, but he was the favorite to win, but with Mechagodzilla around, you knew that Godzilla and Kong would team up to take it down.
GODZILLA VS. KONG does everything right. There are some things that were unbelievable but when you have a giant lizard and giant ape fighting in the city, why should I complain about unbelievable situations otherwise? There is a lot of fun factor in this and that is the big sale in this one. This should satisfy all Kong and Godzilla fans. I highly recommend it.
