Wow. OK. Gojira has had a tough slog at the movies (US, style) in recent decades. The Emmerich twins took a shot at it, and missed. More recently Bryan Cranston played crazy scientist in somewhat better recent take. Good but not great, many thought.
Then there is this mess. I really wanted to like "King of the Monsters" since it seemed like a natural follow on to the Cranston effort. But, maybe they could have taken baby steps, and done a Mothra or Rodan flick, first? But no, they had to bite off the full Avengers-style, the-gangs-all-here thing. And, therein lies the flub, to coin a phrase.
From its opening set-piece, involving a confusing visit to one of Monarch's many monitoring station thingys around the world, "King" moves breathlessly from one monster to the next, as they awaken, and tries to tie all of the madness together with two parallel story-lines. First, is the family story line involving the great Vera Farmiga (wasted here, IMHO) and the other a monster story line involving a three-headed beast trying to unseat our pal, Gojira as, well "King of the Monsters".
Meh. Too much action, too little thought on the story line and some terrible dialogue all add up to a disappointing result. The visuals are pretty spectacular, and the pace relentless. But, to what end?
Oh, the next Gojira film in the "GCU, Godzilla Cinematic Universe", not doubt.
