After the 2014 Godzilla film, people demanded a dumb monster movie. The result is something that joins the ranks of Jurassic World 2, Pacific Rim 2 or Rampage. Happy now? Pro's: - Creature design/VFX. - The set up for the 3 main human characters (the idea that drives them). Con's: - Massively overblown (especially at the end). - Too much exposition and way too plot driven. Emphasizing the plot is never a good idea when you make a film like this. - The dialogue in this is awful, and does the actors no favours. - The characters are hollow shells, and constantly act in unnatural ways. Especially what they did with Vera Farmiga's character felt lazy and not earned. - It overuses the orange and teal look to a degree where Zack Snyder would be jealous of it. - If you thought the final season of GoT had a lot of deus ex machina and 'plot armour' moments, just know that you've seen nothing yet. - The action scenes in this are incoherent and underlit, and therefore hard to follow. I find it funny that whenever we get one of these, the take away for most always seems to be: too much focus on the humans, not enough on the monsters! Well, here's the thing: you can't really develop characters like Godzilla or King Kong, so watching them for 2 hours walk through buildings and punching things is going to get dull very fast. Therefore, you **need** the human focus. You know which director knows this? Steven Spielberg. You know which movie knows this? Jurassic Park. So instead of demanding more shallow elements for the next one, let's maybe ask for the filmmakers to develop the characters for once, and stop focussing on a plot we've seen hundreds of times at this point. 2.5/10

The monster battles are awesome. There are a ton more than the last one and I loved every second. It makes up for all the family drama they make us watch to get to those fights. Hopefully the next one will be Godzilla and Kong fighting for 90 minutes with little to no humans.

The human sections drag down what was otherwise a very entertaining monster movie with a semi-decent lore behind it. The human characters are just so unbearably annoying and behave in an irrational manner at all times. I cringed every time the camera cut to the protagonist's family struggling right in the middle of the monsters fighting, as if I was supposed to give one flying fuck about any of them. Godzilla stepping on the whole lot of 'em and putting them out of their misery while they were driving the Humvee during the fight scene near the end of the movie, or better yet, much earlier in the film when they were all in in Antarctica, would have bumped my score for this movie up by several points.

Ridiculous "plot", failing to provide an even slightly reasonable background for the action. But worse is how the combat between the titans never manages to create a minimum of excitement.

total shit plot wise but with eye candy visuals