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User Reviews for: Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Jordyep
3/10  5 years ago
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
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Reply by Keldian
5 years ago
@jordyep You do know Jurassic Park is based on a Crichton novel? Spielberg is a brilliant director, but he didn't use some hidden knowledge to keep the viewer engaged. He had all the groundwork laid out for him as far as story and character buildup go, and only had to trim it and bring it to life.<br /> <br /> Agree with the rest of the review, though I still gave it 6/10 because the beasties are fun to watch.
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Reply by Jordyep
5 years ago
@keldian you’re right, but don’t forget that this movie is also based on source material. Maybe source material that isn’t as good as the Jurassic Park book (I wouldn’t know as I haven’t read either), but we can at least give credit to Spielberg for not dumbing everything down like this movie does.
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Reply by Jordanculp20
3 years ago
@jordyep Nailed it! So dumb
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