Man, you gotta respect a movie that disregards the little things in life. Like collateral damage. The news reports about this event must have looked like an incoming message from Naboo. The death toll is catastrophic.
So Godzilla cross Kong. I believe the x stands for Cross. If we're going on Street Fighter, Cross Tekken. Though whenever I've heard anyone talk about this movie, they just call it Godzilla Kong. Ignore the acts entirely.
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| Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Movie Review |
Probably has to do with english translation of japanese characters. I digress. We got a film to discuss here. It's directed by Adam Winegard, who directed the previous movie, Godzilla versus Kong. And this is a Kong movie.
Oh, yeah. And Godzilla's in it too. Yes, as this is Godzilla and Kong again. But teaming up this time, it's undeniable that Kong gets the lion share of screen time here. Although Godzilla is in, it has a couple things to do.
It's nowhere near Kong. So if you were Team Godzilla when they were getting those hashtags trending, you might be a little disappointed here. Then again, if you were Team Godzilla, you did get Godzilla minus one just a few months ago. So I feel like you really win here, though. Everyone loves that movie, so I guess everyone wins.
A point is that Godzilla cross Kong is in the Godzilla versus Kong continuity. So that whole journey to the center of the earth in the upside down, but the upside down in the center of the earth, that's all there. A team led by Rebecca hall, they're stranded down there, so the audience can go, great, let's get back to Kong again. I may have given Godzilla a little flack leading up to let me heat. He takes out a couple of monsters, sure, but he doesn't have any.
There's no momentum. There's no character with him. You get all this character with. With Kong and you see him actually have a soul. And Godzilla's this monster out there.
And you're like, okay, well, this. It's definitely his movie. It kind of had fun with it at a point. I was like, this is a very expensive, very CGI, very high budget grade b movie. It was funny because the visual effects, that.
That's not actually what made me roll my eyes in this movie. It's. Well, it's the script. It's never Madame Webb or anything like that. But there were moments where I was like, are you making this shit up as you're just going along?
An example of when they're leaning into it, they're just rattling off a bunch of stuff they need to do. And this one dude's like, all right, while we're just throwing stuff to the wall to see what sticks, I'm gonna go do this thing. I was like, okay, so you know, like, you all know, so I at least appreciate that. Doesn't change the fact that when it was getting going, man, it was some ridiculous shit setting this movie up. This little girl is having psychic messages.
I was like, or you could have just had seismic activity and been like, something's going on. We're getting some readings from down there. We gotta go down there. Or a psychic little kid. Why not?
I will say in Kong being the mvp, there's a scene in particular that absolutely showcases that. There's no dialog, of course, because it's Kong and these other apes. They're arguing, but, you know, the conversation, you get it all. That's no small feat. That's kind of an amazing scene scene.
Because of that, I was like, imagine if they're big robots who actually had words. God willing, we can press forward in life and have transformers movies that don't feel they have to revolve around humans. Or if we're talking about proof of concept, maybe that whole scene was just to give someone the idea. Okay, so we can do a primal rage adaptation, right? Live action primal rage movie.
It can happen. It doesn't have to revolve around humans. It happened in the new Godzilla Kong movie. That's chaos versus Blizzard. What's our budget?Also saw a little bit of kongo in there. Yeah, it's not just Godzilla. Cross Kong. His journey to the center of the earth, Cross Congo. But when Godzilla comes in to join Kong for the big fray at the end.
My God, it's undeniably fun. I was cracking up in a couple of scenes, but just in that gleeful yay, destruction kind of way, the action is a bit fast, man. You gotta have a fast. It's kinda like the new roadhouse with big titan monsters instead. Big titan monsters smashing of into a lot of buildings that definitely had a lot of people in them.
The death toll is catastrophic. It's unthinkable. If your eye is quick enough to pick up on all the CGI action going down at the end of this movie, you're probably quick enough to pick up on whatever video magician's coming up on your feed while they do their sleight of hand magic trick before they do it again and show you how the trick's done. Ruining magic for everybody. Stop doing that.
You're ruining it for everybody. Quick, turn on some 80 synth music that's in there too. That actually heightens the vibe that this movie's, I think, going for, which is this movie would be right at home coming out in about 19, 84, 85. But it is a weird hybrid of tone. Sometimes it finds that Goldilocks zone.
Sometimes it zigs when it should have zagged. Which is to say, it's like, ah, are you b. Did you just pull that from a Taika Waititi Thor movie? I'm pretty pick either one, but I'm pretty sure I saw that. Or specifically.
I mean, it's not like it's exactly the same scenario, but same energy, as they say. Right? You get what I'm saying? Don't go into this looking for Godzilla minus one. It's kind of unfortunate that the trailers for this movie really started to pick up after Godzilla minus one hit theaters here in the US.
Like, huh? In the wake of that here, a different vibe entirely. We all knew it would be. I mean, the actor with the most screen presence and charisma in this movie by far. Kong.
It's not even close. It's not even necessarily a bad thing. Kong stuff was fun. You also see some humanity behind the beast. A man wears bumblebee as a power glove.
Not really. That's what it looked like to me. I want to say the human scenes in this movie were better, but what I mean are Brian Tyree Henry and Dan Stevens made it work. They have the banter, they lean into it and they have fun to a degree that kept me engaged for the most part with the human scenes. Then more humans are just kind of dumped into this movie.
And it just gets worse. It gets bad. We're talking made for tv in the nineties bad. Not saying all tv in the nineties was bad, but when I say that, you know what I mean? Felt as they didn't have the foggiest idea how they needed to manage it.
They were like, all right, we're just gonna ride it as we go along. We're not even gonna know where it's gonna go until we're done filming it. We gotta do something because we know the audience is gonna start asking very logical questions like, why is this kid here? It's like this. It's dumb at times.
It's dumb fun at times. Movies like this. I asked myself, would I watch it again? Like, if my friends hit me up and they were like, hey, we're all going to watch the new Godzilla Kong, the new Empire movie. You want to go with?
I'd probably be like, how about this? You go and we'll. I'll meet you to catch a bite afterwards. We can all go eat somewhere in that now, I guess. I wouldn't watch it again.
Not sober, anyway. Is this probably a better time if you're drunk? Yeah. Now it's the new empire. Not a frozen empire, though there's freezing in this movie two weeks, two blockbusters, both with freezing, both with empires, one could say.
Both with frozen empires. Who cheated off of whose paper? So, Godzilla, the new empire. Have you seen it? What did you think about it?
Or do you also call it Godzilla? Cross Kong? Which is also to say, do you consider Street Fighter Cross Tekken an underappreciated gem? Whatever you think, comment below, let us know.
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