Title - Godzilla: King Of The Monsters
Studio - Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures
Starring - Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Kyle Chandler, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Zhang Ziyi, Bradley Whitford, Thomas Middleditch, Charles Dance, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Aisha Hinds
Writer - Zach Shields
Director - Michael Dougherty
Release - 31 May 2019
This definitely was more interesting than the first one, but I think the first one had a better story; though how good could it be when I can't even remember it.
The dialogue and human interactions were quite the mess. To the point where I wasn't bothered with the relationships of Kyle Chandler's character and his family. And very early on we saw Vera Farmiga's character turn, out of the blue and with very poor reasoning too.
I get what the moviemakers wanted Godzilla to be, with a line "Long live the king" to represent what these characters feel in this new world. But that did not play out clear enough and turned out to be quite random.
Bradley Whitford's character was the worst as he felt very out of place. And don't you just hate it when like in this case, Whitford looked at Godzilla glowing and just uttered something like, "We have six minutes before he blows." How would he even know that? Worse still, that six minutes never played out.
That would have been the silliest scene, had it not been for Farmiga's presentation explaining what was going to happen to Earth with something akin to a Powerpoint.
Zhang Ziyi also was a bad casting choice. We all know English probably isn't even her second language, why not write lines that she can speak with conviction?
But when it came to where it counted: the battles with the titans, this was where the movie won the audience over. If you were the one that complained there wasn't enough Godzilla in the first movie, you will be very happy with this.
The battles themselves look great, though I could still argue a lot of inconsistencies with what the titans were doing.
Still, as a movie that was supposed to be monsters fighting monsters, it kept its promise to the end.
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