Studio - Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Entertainment
Starring - Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza Gonzalez, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir, Kaylee Hottle, Shun Oguri
Writer - Terry Rossio
Director - Adam Wingard
Release - 26 March 2021
How do the puny humans keep getting to successfully sedate King Kong? And more importantly, how do they put him on a net? Do they like roll him to one side and put the net under him? Transport him onto a carrier? How?
If you, like me, asks, these types of questions, then there will be a certain degree of enjoyment that is sucked out of the movie because Adam Wingard didn't bother to address them.
Granted, we all came to watch the fight, not focus on minute details. But I like to see these physics because they make the movie whole.
But when the fight happens, this was cinema magic. Especially in a time like what we are going through now. The CGI never looked better on the two monsters. Their throwdown never disappointed and it was as awesome as I have hoped for. This was easily the best Godzilla or Kong movie that came out from Hollywood.
I also liked how the original name of Gojira always gets a mention.
The puny humans in this movie though, never fared well. From Kong learning sign language enough to understand like full sentences, to the science behind creating Mecha Godzilla, to that energy source needed to power it; none of these make any sense whatsoever.
And, SPOILER ALERT, there is a place in the earth that the puny humans called "hallow"; while very, very interesting concept, but again lacking in physics. It was suggested that Kong's ancestors built this place and that's why it is his "home". But looking at the architecture of that place, one has to wonder, is Kong the dumb one?
In the end, Kaylee Hottle's plea to Kong saying Godzilla is not the enemy is simplifying things way too much. Godzilla, after all, hunted Kong down. Why they did not kill each other when they both had the chance, after what the puny humans described them as mortal enemies, was again something that didn't make any sense.
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