This feels like another one of those movies that’s been talked about for awhile and then because of the pandemic it kind of dropped in our laps out of nowhere.
I think I saw the Godzilla reboot/whatever from 2014 and honestly don’t remember a whole lot of it. I definitely didn’t see Skull Island. For whatever it’s worth, going into this they just wear the craziness on their sleeves and that’s that. You don’t need any prior viewing to understand the plot.
Rebecca Hall is fantastic in the few movies I’ve seen her in.
Bryan Tyree Henry’s character was manic and funny, but to be fair he’s perpetually funny and comes across as a real human being in all his roles. That side plot, however….
The side plot with Millie Bobby Brown and Julian Dennison was booooooring. I didn’t outright dislike Dennison in Deadpool 2, but he’s just kind of a nothing character here. I don’t get the big deal. Brown on the other hand somehow has way less screen presence and character as a “normal person” in this movie than she does as Eleven in Stranger Things. Her performance in this is interchangeable with any number of actors – it wasn’t anything special. I dunno how she can steal the show on ST and then be milquetoast here.
There’s another character whose name escapes me – she was the bad guy’s daughter – and she drops into the movie so haphazardly I’m surprised she wasn’t wearing a parachute. And the character was written to be so blatantly evil that you’re just waiting for her big moment to turn on the heroes. It happened, it was predictable, it had very little payoff, and it was stupid.
The movie certainly does move at a swift pace at first – they show chyrons of the locations they change to and it feels like a new locale pops up every 35 seconds. Then the second half of the movie is one long marathon of CGI fighting. If that’s what you’re into, you’ll have fun.
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