I could have really liked this film without the Mark character, but as it is, I only half liked it and have no desire to go through all his scenes again so I won’t be watching it again.
It starts with post-apocalypse scenes from S.Francisco 2014, it seems Godzilla wrecked the city, and a family lost a child.
Godzilla has not been seen again, but a group called Monarch kills lots of animals in its search for Godzilla or other Titan creatures like him.
This not-so-secret coalition has been studying the titans, and a part of the government pushes to kill all the creatures.
Now: Madison lives with her mom, while her dad is in a ‘safe place’; later we’ll see that he’s taking pictures of wild animals.
Mom works in a Monarch outpost in China. A ‘monster’ is born under their eyes, Mothra they call it, but right away their containment system fails. Someone shoots, the creature panics and mom goes near with her own invention, a thing that finds and sends the right frequency to calm the creature down. Maddie even pets it, the absurdity.
Anyway. Right then, armed men arrive and shoot almost everyone. Lead by Jonah, they take Emma and Madison away.
Dr Serizawa is against the military killing all the titans. He goes to tell Mark about his family being captured and asks for his help, and instead of saying Let’s go now he wastes time complaining that the Orca project should not even exist. He thought it was destroyed but after San Francisco Emma built it again, a better one designed for the titans.
There are 17 titans that they know, that they have found.
After the tragedy, Emma reacted doubling her efforts to save the world, Mark got into drinking.
Now Mark is all for killing all the creatures, contrary to Emma and Serizawa who think some of them are good, they’re part of the world order.
Jonah wants Emma to communicate with Monster Zero. Godzilla moves closer to Mark and all the others prepare to shoot but he ‘orders’ to stand down and they obey…
Godzilla moves forward, heading to Antarctica where Emma is. Mark goes to ‘free’ Emma and Madison, but they don’t go with him. Instead, Emma wakes up Monster Zero, a huge creature with three dragon heads. Godzilla arrives to attack it. It’s all rather confusing, but Mark comes out of it alive, of course. People who worked with her can’t believe Emma did it, but Mark saw her.
Then Emma calls them, explaining why she did it. Because humans are ruining this world. It’s now overpopulated, full of pollution and war, but the Titans are the rightful rulers of the world, “part of the Earth’s natural defence system”, to maintain the balance. She says they will not destroy humanity, they will save the world.
This was all her plan, she approached Jonah, she wants to wake all the creatures.
Rodan, a winged Titan, is next. It comes out of a volcano. A squadron of planes is destroyed, but they make it because Monster Zero arrives and they fight each other.
The military sends a missile called Oxygen Destroyer…
Serizawa wanted to have faith in Godzilla (Gojira, he says) and yes, when Monster Zero is about to kill them, Godzilla stops it. They fight. The missile hits, killing every creature in the water but not Monster Zero, of course.
Godzilla is hurt a lot, though , maybe dead.
Now all the creatures wake up, one out of the sand in Arizona, one from a mountain in Germany, they all wake without Emma doing anything.
Now Madison is angry at her mom.
Dr Chen, I think, has an idea, she thinks that Monster Zero is the Ghidorah of Legends, that he’s not part of this world, a hydra that came from somewhere else.
Everywhere in the world, Titans are causing havoc because they follow the alpha’s lead, Ghidorah, and if they stop him they stop them all.
And Godzilla, who could do it, has been almost killed by them.
Emma now wants to stop it all, because without Godzilla there won’t be a new balance, only destruction. Maddie hears her and wants to do it.
Mothra is awake and like a butterfly, she’s Queen of the Monsters.
Mark tells them to help Godzilla with nuclear weapons.
Maddie grabs some stuff plus the Orca and goes out. She’s in Boston. She activates and amplifies the Orca’s signal, and all creatures calm down.
Mark’s group wants to help Godzilla, but of course there was some damage, so the nuclear weapons cannot be launched, and Serizawa volunteers to pilot the ship with the ‘nukes’ to Godzilla.
He puts them down manually, walks up to touch Godzilla waiting for the bomb to explode.
It works and Godzilla is recharged.
Monster Zero attacks where Maddie is, but Godzilla saves her. Mark’s people join the fight shooting Ghidorah.
Godzilla now is stuffed full of radiation. As they land, they find the Orca right away, but not Maddie. Mothra arrives to help Godzilla.
Emma finds them and goes home - they have a home in Boston, guessing that Maddie is there.
Rodan attacks Mothra and fails.
The house is destroyed, Maddie saved herself by hiding inside the bathtub.
Ghidorah flies Godzilla up high and lets him fall, and then bites him.
Emma too sacrifices herself to bring Ghidorah away from the others. (So, the Orca did not call Ghidorah, instead it was Ghidorah going after it to destroy it…)
Fully charged and up again, Godzilla fights Ghidorah and his radiations burn Ghidorah.
Ghidorah is tough, but Godzilla kills it.
All other Titans bow to Godzilla now as their Alpha leader. The end.
At the beginning of the credits, we see that all Monarch files got online and also many news reports :
“titans returning to natural environments” , “Over sixty years of giant monster files” , “Rodan nesting in volcano north of Fiji”, “mysterious rainforest blooms in Sahara desert”, “strange new life appears after titan activity”, and “Godzilla’s path through Pacific bringing life back to Reefs, restoring fish population”
Another titans radiations have rapid growth effects on fauna of Amazon, and Scylla slows ice-melt in Antarctica, the eco-systems heal, maybe a Mothra egg was found… but no news on Mothra herself, so Ghidorah killed her? :sob:
At the end of the credits, we see that Jonah has found one of the heads of Ghidorah, and takes it.
Dr Mark Russell - Kyle Chandler
Dr Emma Russell - Vera Farmiga
Madison Russell - Millie Bobby Brown
Dr Ishiro Serizawa - Ken Watanabe
Dr Chen and Dr Ling - Ziyi Zhang
Dr Rick Stanton - Bradley Whitford
Alan Jonah - Charles Dance
Admiral - David Strathairn
The cast list ends with :
Godzilla - Himself
King Ghidorah - Himself
Mothra - Herself
Rodan - Himself
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