Godzilla VS Kong
Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to RUUMMMBLLEE!!! After an hour of tedious plotting and terrible acting.
Why does Hollywood insist on extensive plotting? Did some executive splurge on a plot generator rather than a new coffee machine, and keeps using it to justify the expenditure to their pissed-off colleagues?
Godzilla VS Kong is buried under a load of nonsense about alternative dimensions, corporate conspiracies, espionage, and exposition blandly delivered by robots posing as humans. Only Kyle Chandler shows are form of sentiment, that being of annoyed to be there. I'm guessing director Adam Wingard had zero interest in the plot or the human characters, as tries rushing through the scenes as fast as possible.
When the monster bash finally kicks off, the film is loads of fun. Kong and Godzilla beat the everloving shit out of each other, while wrecking Hong Kong harder than Xi Jinping could dream of. Hong Kong is an excellent choice of location as the neon lighting and massive skyscrapers bring visual depth to the scrapping. The special effects artists also deserve acclaim for managing to portray emotion on the giant lizard and ape.
Overall,
Godzilla VS Kong is 40 minutes of 4-star destruction suffocating under an hour of 1-star dreck. There's very little else to say about it. Use chapter selection to get the most out of this.
(I saw this in the cinema back in July. The Hong Kong scenes were worth it.)