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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

2024

Adam Wingard

Rebecca Hall, Kaylee Hottle, Dan Stevens, Brian Tyree Henry ...

5.8

2,231

Action. Fantasy. Sci-Fi The epic new film will delve further into the histories of these Titans, their origins and the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Breezy, forgettable monster sequel (...) There’s a likable, light-hearted zip to the monster mash follow-up but energy dissipates when we’re stuck with the humans (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"'X' is also the symbol that should have been prodigiously used to cross out the script’s many, many stupid ideas (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A Godzilla spectacle minus one thing: a reason to exist (...) A standard overly busy and mediocre blockbuster with a pretty awesome wow of a clash-of-the-titans climax"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"So-so franchise entry (...) [It] mainly traffics in the sort of CGI-generated mayhem resembling a video game that will please the series’ fans but doesn’t bring anything new to attract non-diehards"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Goofy sequel that’s always silly but rarely fun (...) Adam Wingard's sequel is the best MonsterVerse movie since 2014's "Godzilla," which is reason enough to give this series a reboot"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith The Wall Street Journal	"I guess, if you’re wowed by soulless CGI chaos. Thrilling? Not really. At the end, I was left feeling the way Kong does at the beginning: tired and bored"	NEG
United States	Amy Nicholson The Washington Post	"Wingard’s not a sentimentalist, and it stumbles whenever he tries to slap phony emotions onto the film to make it more like a generic crowd-pleaser. He’s a showman, a popcorn guy with excellent aesthetics (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times	"[It] has very little road left to cruise, and it shows"	NEG
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"A brawny, brainless monster mash (...) Adam Wingard turns the MonsterVerse right into pure monster-smashing action, for better and for worse"	NEU
Canada	Radheyan Simonpillai The Globe and Mail	"A whole section during the climactic bout takes place in the Earth’s core, without gravity, which doubles as a metaphor for the movie as a whole. It’s weightless"	NEG
United States	G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle	"It is exactly as you’d expect it to be: a popcorn movie with special effects that are better imagined than Marvel movies, rip-roarin’ action and monsters, monsters, monsters. It does its job (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"Cinema's most famous lizard and monkey team up to fight a common enemy, while you wonder why a blockbuster universe featuring two iconic creatures feels so empty and by-the-numbers"	NEG
United States	D. Hood IGN	"Wingard has a lot of fun with textures, colors, and camera work, and he’s adept at giving fans the over-the-top monster action that they demand via an imposing new villain. Unfortunately, there’s no time to spend on making things make sense or even matter all that much"	NEU
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"Wingard’s film is certainly bigger and louder than his prior entry in the series, but the pro-forma motions that it goes through only work to undercut your rooting interest in the outcome of Godzilla and Kong’s climactic team-up (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'The New Empire' delivers same old monster song and dance (...) A relatively uninspired and fairly forgettable chapter in the Monsterverse saga (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dylan Roth The New York Observer	"This is a monster movie for monster-movie fans and not more. But hardly 10 minutes goes by without monster action (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Odie Henderson Boston Globe	"The problem with 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' is the same as so many of these franchise-based films: They’re all soulless special-effects extravaganzas (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	James Mottram NME	"While it won’t scratch an emotional itch, if it’s barnstorming building-bashing you want, then 'Godzilla X Kong' delivers (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"[It] doesn’t multiply or divide, exactly, but in its tilt toward only those who are extremely invested in this increasingly silly franchise, it doesn’t conquer, either"	NEG
United Kingdom	Amon Warmann Empire	"This doesn’t reinvent the wheel, and keeps you waiting too long for the final showdown — but when the creatures collide, it still delivers satisfying thrills (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"There’s a harried energy to 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' which is enjoyable until it becomes tiresome and deafening"	NEG
United States	Charles Pulliam-Moore The Verge	"[It] is big on bombastic spectacle and new lore but woefully lacking in terms of story and substance"	NEG
United Kingdom	Olly Richards Time Out	"If you want to see massive creatures leveling cities, that’s exactly what you’ll get. If you’re looking for anything more than that, well, you should know by now that you’re in the wrong place (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"I turned my brain off and enjoyed the ride"	POS
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"The titans of the Monsterverse join forces against evil but it is all still just more of the same stomp fest"	NEU
United States	Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"A new world can’t make this sequel feel anything but stale (...) Adam Wingard’s latest 'Monsterverse' flick is laughably absurd as it tries to anchor its beastly fights with any emotional resonance or narrative coherence"	NEG
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"[It] just ain’t cutting it beyond loud and senseless brawls that aren’t even a delight to watch"	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"It’s monsters fighting – and that’s it (...) This sees Godzilla and Kong stomp off on adventures that turn out to be thunderously boring – plus, how on earth do you say the film’s name? (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"A welcome reminder that there’s nothing wrong with being fun and ridiculous"	POS
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Beyond the charming entertainment, though, 'Godzilla x Kong' is more hollow than Hollow Earth (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Robert Daniels Mashable	"About halfway through 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', I turned to a fellow critic to ask a desperate question: What the hell is this movie about?"	NEG
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"[It] is nowhere near a perfect movie & it suffers from plot contrivances, but it’s also thrilling & genuinely fun despite its shortcomings (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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