 Godzilla vs. Kong is finally on HBO Max and in movie theaters around the world for those fortunate enough to go see them I myself watched at home with my family. So the experience wasn't great The title really says it all this is Godzilla vs. Kong and if that's all you want if you just want the cool Unbridled action, it's gonna give it to you. The problem is in between that action You're gonna have to deal with some horrible horrible writing. I'm more than willing to sit through a stupid plot I like Jurassic World. I do however have limits and that's Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Unfortunately, that's the side of the spectrum that Godzilla and Kong fit in Kong has been imprisoned by the humans in some sort of a futuristic Island cage how they were able to subdue this creature and put him in the prison as anybody's guess I don't know he's captured multiple times and then kind of lugged around by the humans against his will Like I'm just looking at the semantics of it all There's there's one point where all these helicopters are carrying him via net back to Skull Island And I'm just thinking like what did this entail? How much work was it? What did you guys have to lift him to get the ropes underneath? I mean just everything about it was just bothering me But I was willing to set that aside as long as the action was cool and the story didn't get too stupid. Oh It did it got too stupid I'm not gonna reveal any spoilers today if you've seen any trailers and have followed this movie at all You know how it's gonna play out already. It's it's it's pretty paint by numbers Let me list some of the things that work the big one is the fights the battles. There's three of them I guess pretty lengthy ones Those you can see the actions awesome the choreography is there There's some there's some fun creative ways that these two go at it I don't have any complaints as far as the fighting goes the sound design is cool The visuals are fantastic, especially the neon fight at night In Hong Kong that stuff looks sick the music is solid the the beast themselves the designs are pretty sweet Although I feel like Godzilla kind of took a step back for me He looked a little off in this film And I don't know if that's because at one point he like legitimately smiles at the camera I don't know something was just a little off with him here The little deaf girl gives a fantastic performance. She's the only character. I liked in the movie And I guess that's a nice segue to the negatives of the film as I've previously mentioned the story is dumb I'm not gonna break it down I don't think I could break it down if I tried my brain would just fall out of my ear Trying to try to decipher what I witnessed Miley Bobby Brown and Kyle Chandler are back America's hero Kyle Chandler the everyman he could have maybe done this over lunch I don't know how much time he had to film couldn't have been more than a day because you barely see him He has no purpose and Unfortunately, neither does Miley Bobby Brown who has a large chunk of film dedicated to her and her storyline with her little pals That she comes into contact with it goes nowhere. They do nothing We have probably a half hour dedicated to their shenanigans Where they infiltrate this this base that has no security Where they they stop some sort of a machine by spilling coffee on a keyboard. I mean I just I Will lose my shit if I try to break this down. There is some cool lore in the movie. I wish it was explained further I wish that was the focus, you know, the movie starts making us think well This really is gonna be a Kong film where we're spending some time with him He's flipping around the trees and I think if they would have gone for broke with that and just did the whole story through his Perspective we could have something kind of special here, but no no the studio was gonna go for that instead They introduce a bunch of new characters that are all pretty bland and boring They don't make a lot of sense and I think that goes to my biggest gripe with the film is the technology jump so in the first couple movies with Godzilla and Kong obviously Kong was a timepiece, but They stayed true to form with technology as it is today for the most part King of the monsters gets a little bit more futuristic, but holy crap. We took a big jump here like I'm talking a Hundred-year leap no probably probably probably more than that considering what gets Created the tech in this movie is out of control. They're doing this nonsensical stuff with ships They're they're they're digging holes into the center of the earth. They're they're building giant creations It's just nonsense and I can't I can't get over it I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to get on board with anything my biggest gripe though Is they did not give us a tangible reason for these two Titans to go at it other than There can only be one king, you know, it's a king of the hill scenario. They're gonna be one on top That does not fly for me I need something more compelling because I found myself almost nodding off and a Godzilla vs. Kong movie I wanted to be a little bit more into it than I was. I mean the first time these two meet to fight I wanted it to be impactful. I wanted to be epic, but instead it's just Okay, well finally we got here. It took a while, but they're going they're gonna fight cool Even in the dumbest of films there has to be some stakes and I just didn't feel them I didn't believe any of it at the end of the day. You're gonna be in two camps They're gonna be in the camp That's a movie buff that just wants to have a good film to watch or you're gonna be in the camp That's just a fanboy or fangirl and you just want to see your heroes your action figures fight and battle and everything else You can forgive if you're in that camp. I think you're gonna love Godzilla vs. Kong No complaints as far as the battles go if however you appreciate good storytelling writing Filming you know all that crap that nobody cares about anymore probably not gonna like this one very much like me Let me know in the comments which youth out of the films leave a like if you had some fun Make sure to subscribe if you haven't and I'll see you next time