Let's be honest. I went in expecting this movie to be dumb, but pretty entertaining. Just an average blockbuster. Fortunately, this time it was so entertaining that you can ignore the dumb parts.
And of course, it's not an ambitious movie, there's a lot of cliche, oversimplification etc., but I still expected worse. Most of the time humans are not acting like idiots, their crazy ideas are pretty convincing within this world and the whole cast does a great job keeping us entertained. Relations between our human characters work pretty well.
There's a lot of worldbuilding here, successfull one in my opinion. Ancient civilization, prophecies, stories written on walls, some scores to even. The Hollow Earth looks great, you can see how this whole ecosystems works with its own rules.
And finally, Titans. CGI is really good, fight scenes don't disappoint and, the most important thing, monsters act like they should act. There's startegy, there's a lot of preparing, but also there's hierarchy, decisions made out of fear and fights for territory. Writers managed to make the Titans seem humane while also staying within their animal nature. The outcome of that is convincing, at least for me.
Some people might have a problem with the fact that most of this movie is basically assembilng the team for the final battle, but I think this time Monsterverse used a cliche in pretty much the best way possible.
In the end, Godzilla x Kong is a satisfying and engaging blockbuster as well as great addition to the franchise. I wonder, how are they gonna beat that in the next one...
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