A visually impressive but ultimately cheesy sequel that makes the same mistake of focusing more on special effects than an actual story.
Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga star as an ex-couple who are scientists who study gigantic monsters known as Titans who roam the planet. Yes, that does include Godzilla as well. How could it not?
They introduce a device that is capable of emitting frequencies so loud that apparently other dormant creatures can hear it and, yes, they awaken and it isn’t long before all hell breaks loose.
The movie likes to be the Avengers of all the Godzilla monsters coming together to either work with the beast or fight it. Mostly the latter because if they didn’t, we wouldn’t get any kind of story and we would be denied seeing one special effects sequence after another.
Other supporting characters do show up such as Bradley Whitfield and Ken Watanabe as fellow scientists who want to study the creatures and O’Shea Jackson as a soldier whose only purpose is to hunt down as many creatures as possible. Too bad their characters aren’t given anything more substantial to do.
The sequences of monsters coming together to have their battle royales can be mindless fun, but the rest of the movie doesn’t really create characters that we care about or are in any way memorable.
Not to mention, this movie is just nothing more than a setup for an inevitable sequel and who knows how much more devastation Godzilla can cause before it gets old?
If you like old-fashioned mayhem with cutting edge special effects on a Friday night, you’ll certainly get your money’s worth. For everyone else, it’s just another dumbed down creature feature.
Grade: C+
(Rated PG-13 for sequences of monster action violence and destruction, and for some language.)
