Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Directed by Adam Wingard
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
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But the more you settle into the latest entry in Warner Bros. and Legendary's “MonsterVerse” — the Americanized shared universe of Japanese-sourced kaiju movies that started with 2014's Godzilla — the more confounding this exercise becomes.
On the plus side, Wingard has arguably three of the best working actors in the game: Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry reprise their roles from “Godzilla vs. Kong,” and Wingard brings along the star of his 2014 thriller “The Guest,” Dan Stevens, who possesses a kind of glowing charisma that's almost too much to take in.
2014's Godzilla, 2017's Kong: Skull Island and 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters seesawed in their efforts (some admirably, some woefully).
I don’t like to compare movies against each other but, given the two films share a gigantic atomic lizard, we must evaluate The New Empire through the lens of Godzilla Minus One. The former film is part of Warner Bros. Monsterverse cinematic universe, which includes 2014’s Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong. All of these movies are more or less the same movie that excels when they let the big monsters fight and fail when any human graces the screen.
Both Godzilla and Kong are characters that have existed for the better part of a century, with dozens of films under their combined belts. For the most part, these franchises can be broken down into two categories. One is films that attempt to explore deeper issues or themes under the guise of a monster movie, like 1933’s King Kong, 1954’s Godzilla, or last year’s Godzilla Minus One.