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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2024

2024

Adam Wingard

Rebecca Hall, Kaylee Hottle, Dan Stevens, Brian Tyree Henry ...

5.3

6,837

Action. Fantasy. Sci-Fi The epic new film will delve further into the histories of these Titans, their origins and the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.

	Media	Author	Review
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Breezy, forgettable monster sequel (...) There’s a likable, light-hearted zip to the monster mash follow-up but energy dissipates when we’re stuck with the humans (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"'X' is also the symbol that should have been prodigiously used to cross out the script’s many, many stupid ideas (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A Godzilla spectacle minus one thing: a reason to exist (...) A standard overly busy and mediocre blockbuster with a pretty awesome wow of a clash-of-the-titans climax"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"So-so franchise entry (...) [It] mainly traffics in the sort of CGI-generated mayhem resembling a video game that will please the series’ fans but doesn’t bring anything new to attract non-diehards"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Goofy sequel that’s always silly but rarely fun (...) Adam Wingard's sequel is the best MonsterVerse movie since 2014's "Godzilla," which is reason enough to give this series a reboot"
		Kyle Smith The Wall Street Journal	"I guess, if you’re wowed by soulless CGI chaos. Thrilling? Not really. At the end, I was left feeling the way Kong does at the beginning: tired and bored"
		Amy Nicholson The Washington Post	"Wingard’s not a sentimentalist, and it stumbles whenever he tries to slap phony emotions onto the film to make it more like a generic crowd-pleaser. He’s a showman, a popcorn guy with excellent aesthetics (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times	"[It] has very little road left to cruise, and it shows"
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"A brawny, brainless monster mash (...) Adam Wingard turns the MonsterVerse right into pure monster-smashing action, for better and for worse"
		Radheyan Simonpillai The Globe and Mail	"A whole section during the climactic bout takes place in the Earth’s core, without gravity, which doubles as a metaphor for the movie as a whole. It’s weightless"
		G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle	"It is exactly as you’d expect it to be: a popcorn movie with special effects that are better imagined than Marvel movies, rip-roarin’ action and monsters, monsters, monsters. It does its job (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"Cinema's most famous lizard and monkey team up to fight a common enemy, while you wonder why a blockbuster universe featuring two iconic creatures feels so empty and by-the-numbers"
		D. Hood IGN	"Wingard has a lot of fun with textures, colors, and camera work, and he’s adept at giving fans the over-the-top monster action that they demand via an imposing new villain. Unfortunately, there’s no time to spend on making things make sense or even matter all that much"
		Derek Smith Slant	"Wingard’s film is certainly bigger and louder than his prior entry in the series, but the pro-forma motions that it goes through only work to undercut your rooting interest in the outcome of Godzilla and Kong’s climactic team-up (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'The New Empire' delivers same old monster song and dance (...) A relatively uninspired and fairly forgettable chapter in the Monsterverse saga (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Dylan Roth The New York Observer	"This is a monster movie for monster-movie fans and not more. But hardly 10 minutes goes by without monster action (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Odie Henderson Boston Globe	"The problem with 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' is the same as so many of these franchise-based films: They’re all soulless special-effects extravaganzas (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"
		James Mottram NME	"While it won’t scratch an emotional itch, if it’s barnstorming building-bashing you want, then 'Godzilla X Kong' delivers (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"[It] doesn’t multiply or divide, exactly, but in its tilt toward only those who are extremely invested in this increasingly silly franchise, it doesn’t conquer, either"
		Amon Warmann Empire	"This doesn’t reinvent the wheel, and keeps you waiting too long for the final showdown — but when the creatures collide, it still delivers satisfying thrills (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"There’s a harried energy to 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' which is enjoyable until it becomes tiresome and deafening"
		Charles Pulliam-Moore The Verge	"[It] is big on bombastic spectacle and new lore but woefully lacking in terms of story and substance"
		Olly Richards Time Out	"If you want to see massive creatures leveling cities, that’s exactly what you’ll get. If you’re looking for anything more than that, well, you should know by now that you’re in the wrong place (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"I turned my brain off and enjoyed the ride"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"The titans of the Monsterverse join forces against evil but it is all still just more of the same stomp fest"
		Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"A new world can’t make this sequel feel anything but stale (...) Adam Wingard’s latest 'Monsterverse' flick is laughably absurd as it tries to anchor its beastly fights with any emotional resonance or narrative coherence"
		Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"[It] just ain’t cutting it beyond loud and senseless brawls that aren’t even a delight to watch"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"It’s monsters fighting – and that’s it (...) This sees Godzilla and Kong stomp off on adventures that turn out to be thunderously boring – plus, how on earth do you say the film’s name? (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"A welcome reminder that there’s nothing wrong with being fun and ridiculous"
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Beyond the charming entertainment, though, 'Godzilla x Kong' is more hollow than Hollow Earth (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Robert Daniels Mashable	"About halfway through 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', I turned to a fellow critic to ask a desperate question: What the hell is this movie about?"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"[It] is nowhere near a perfect movie & it suffers from plot contrivances, but it’s also thrilling & genuinely fun despite its shortcomings (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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