Not bad, not bad at all. There was lots of Kong and quite a lot of Godzilla too, so I really appreciated that. Also, it sort of ended like I wanted from the start, so good! :-)
I didn’t like all the characters, but they weren’t really important. Jia the little girl was the best character of them all, that without words could express with her eyes all the right emotions.
This movie is actually a sequel, both of the previous two Godzilla movies with the Russell family, and also of the Kong movie Skull Island. I liked that!
So, the backstory we already know is that Titans live on our world, Godzilla is the alpha and is actually helpful in keeping Earth balance; Ghidorah was not from this world like the others, and it was defeated by Godzilla. It was the hydra with three heads. Kong lives on Skull Island, sort of protecting the locals from nasty things like the skullcrawlers.
Now, Kong still lives on Skull Island, but under a protective artificial dome where Dr Andrews keeps him to avoid Godzilla finding him, because they’re both alphas and she’s worried about Kong.
Bernie works for Apex Cybernetics, and has a secret podcast where he tries to uncover secret conspiracies. Walter Simmons created that company, he’s of course super rich and the villain of this movie.
When Godzilla attacks the Florida branch of Apex, there are of course some casualties and the world obviously turns against it, no surprise there, but not Madison. Good girl is growing up, though still young, and had already shown of having a head of her own. Of course her father doesn’t listen to her, when did he ever… so she goes looking for Bernie to find out what is going on, sure there must be a reason behind Godzilla’s action.
That is Madison’s role in the movie, to show us some things, some truths, nothing else.
Obviously Simmons had dark secrets, that’s how those people get there, and the biggest is that he has built a super GodzillaBot, a robot in the shape of Godzilla, that uses a red energy flare instead of the green atomic one of the original, that will have the strength to defeat every Titan, even Godzilla. They’re breeding skullcrawlers to use in ‘training’, basically they use them as things the robot can kill to test its energy. Serizawa pilots the robot from outside, using a device that connects him to it and also using the huge head of Ghidorah that was recovered by Jonah at the end of the last movie.
The robot works , but they’re not satisfied yet, they don’t have enough energy. So they reach Nathan, scorn by the scientific world for his theories on a hollow earth, and convince him to lead a mission to find the ultimate source of energy that should be down there. Nathan’s brother died trying to reach it, but they’re persuasive and Nathan thinks that maybe if Kong showed them the way they might make it. Theory based on the belief that Kong is from there and should therefore have an instinct on how to get there.
Simmons tells him it is all to save the world, and Nathan tells Andrews that it is important to defeat Godzilla and save Kong. So she agrees, and they drug Kong to chain him on a huge ship directed to Antarctica where the entrance is.
They are attacked by Godzilla who sensed his presence, and they almost die because Kong is still chained and can’t defend himself, or them. Some ships are destroyed, and the ship they’re on gets turned upside down and everyone, Kong included, risks drowning, until Nathan manages to free Kong. About time!!!
Kong rights the ship and fights Godzilla, then they shut off every engine or light, anything at all, to sort of ‘play dead’, so that Godzilla goes away for now.
They are worried about two more days at sea, so they used the super helicopters that Maia Simmons brought with her to lift Kong and bring him to Antarctica.
Why those helicopters came with a huge huge net strong enough to carry Kong is of course not explained.
Maia Simmons is a young, unbearable woman, the daughter of Walter Simmons, of course. She’s been sent there to complete the mission, and she’s not nice at all. She appears and immediately tells them what she brought expecting them to be suitably impressed, and that’s all she does, until the end when she’ll die.
Kong has no will to enter the cave they point to him, so they use young Jia to talk to him - since she’s deaf they communicate using sign language, and Andrews never noticed…
They have Jia explain to Kong that he might find some family going that way, and after all now that they brought him here he does not have lots of other choices. He can’t go back to his island, and can’t stay outside, in Antarctica’s cold. So he goes in and they follow him, and he does reach the hollow earth, where he finds a huge axe that belongs to him, and there are many nasty creatures that don’t stand a chance against Kong.
Maia collects a sample of the energy source and apparently the machines are all connected because as soon as she does, dead old dad receives the much needed energy.
Godzilla senses them and uses his green ray of energy to cut a huge hole in the earth that reaches Kong, quite convenient too so they can reach Hong Kong quite fast. That’s where Godzilla is, because once again he went after the Apex, probably sensing their experiments.
Godzilla and Kong fight each other, Kong has his axe but Godzilla is Godzilla, and it’s a big fight. Kong won’t back down and bow to anyone, so they fight until Kong is ultimately down, with no strength to get up again. Godzilla puts a foot on his chest, but doesn’t kill him, probably accepting what a worthy opponent he is and that the fight is over anyway.
Jia is sad and alarmed, says Kong’s heart is slowing down, stopping, so they use a helicopter, Apex version, to restart it by making it explode on his chest…
Simmons is ecstatic of finally having the energy he wanted, and he wants to try it right away, also because Godzilla is there too. Serizawa would like to test it first, maybe relocating like they did before, but Simmons insists. Serizawa starts the connection with the GodzillaBot but the energy is so much he gets fried up and dies with nobody knowing. Still, since they used not only a human brain to pilot it, but also Ghidorah’s head to power it all, the Bot is now moving on its own, with no pilot and a sort of mind of its own, meaning it wants to kill. First it kills Simmons, then it goes against Godzilla who fights it.
Jia tells Kong that Godzilla is not his enemy - and Kong looks rightly doubtful about that.
She points out that “THAT is the enemy”, pointing her finger at the huge Bot, so Kong joins the fight. Godzilla understands they have a common enemy and they join forces and defeat the Bot. To manage that, at the end Godzilla charges Kong’s axe with his green ray, and Kong uses it to cut the Bot to pieces.
Now Godzilla goes away, swimming who knows where, while Kong stays in the hollow earth, as his new big home, not as beautiful as his island but more real and also bigger.
Nathan - Alexander Skarsgard
Madison - Millie Bobby Brown
Jia - Kaylee Hottle
Ilene Andrews - Rebecca Hall
Bernie - Brian Tyree Henry
Walter Simmons - Demiàn Bichir
Serizawa - Shun Oguri
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