If any moviegoer of the latest Godzilla movie, “Movie Review: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire”, after seeing this giant mess were to be asked about the story, or his/her understanding of what they saw during these two hours; to a person, they would have no clue. This disaster of a film is nothing more than pre-canned computer-generated action scenes involving King Kong, and Godzilla, that were thrown together making a total of 2 hours of another forgettable and bad action movie. Unfortunately, this process of making bad action films seems to be the latest trend in the movie industry, including the latest and also bad Ghostbuster sequel.
There are several CGI movie companies that every year, spend millions of dollars to create monster movie graphics and to make back the money they spend on development, all of these scenes are thrown together into ridiculous disconnected scenes in action movies. Then some screenwriter has to try and assemble all of these scenes into a story that has no chance of making any sense. This latest Godzilla movie is one of the best examples of this ongoing stupid method of movie production.
One of the best reviews on Rotten Tomatoes I have seen about this film is from Odie Henderson of the Boston Globe: The problem with “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” is the same as so many of these franchise-based films: They’re all soulless special-effects extravaganzas where CGI takes the place of character development, good writing, and emotional connection. This one sentence describes the entire problem with movies like this perfectly.
The main character in this latest bad action movie is Rebecca Hall, who plays scientist Ilene Andrews whose entire purpose is to try and narrate this impossible series of monster events. Brian Tyree Henry plays a podcaster, who for some reason goes along for the ride and like the rest of us is trying to understand what is going on. Kaylee Hottle plays Jia, a young girl who is the standard young child who has some kind of a mental connection to King Kong. Considering how bad this story is, who cares about this?
When you consider movie franchises like “Toy Story” and others like it, so much money is spent on outstanding CGI technology that a great screenplay has to be created first, to honor how much hard work is required for the CGI. This continuing trend of CGI first, nobody cares about the screenplay, disrespects the movie-going audience – the most unfortunate aspect of having to waste 2 hours sitting through these horrendous movies.
The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this film is too high 54%, with my rating only 10%, only for some of the CGI scenes, and a big miss this mess recommendation.
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