Originally scheduled to be released in last year’s November, ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ finally premiered to cinemas worldwide on last Wednesday. It is one of my most highly anticipated movies of the year. I can’t wait to see the clash and epic battle between the two Titans; Godzilla and Kong and this movie delivered on that perfectly well.
It all started with 2014’s Godzilla film where the titular monster battled and defeated the MUTOs. It was then followed by 2017’s Kong: Skull Island where the mighty ape took down Skullcrawlers. A sequel film to Godzilla was released in 2019 and is titled ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ where the Godzilla managed to kill even the powerful King Ghidorah. And now in Godzilla vs. Kong, both Godzilla and Kong appeared together in a single movie to take down Mechagodzilla. (opps…spoiler!)
The film started off with human characters’ development that didn’t quite take off except for the deaf little girl who is the only one that bonded with Kong and can communicate with him. Anyway, humans are not critical for this type of film; the titans are. As soon as the first encounter between Kong and Godzilla occurred, things get very excited. That’s what all of us wanted to see from this movie. The film delivered intense and heart-stopping battle scenes from the sea all the way to Hong Kong city. Those fight scenes are pure awesome! The visual effects are extremely good too!
Sorry to Kong’s fans. In the first battle with Godzilla, Kong did lost because he had a disadvantage as the clash took place on water. He will drown underwater but not Godzilla. In the second battle at Hong Kong, he lost again to Godzilla despite having the help of a giant axe. Godzilla is truly the king of the monsters. Once Mechagodzilla appeared, the two teamed up to take down this robotic Godzilla-lookalike monster and Kong finally had a proud moment in the end as he is the one that tore down and killed Mechagodzilla with the axe powered up by Godzilla’s atomic blast. This is a movie that must be watched on the big screen to truly experience the epic battles of these titans. The film didn’t disappoint and I would rate it a total of 8.0 out of 10.
On the other hand, I have watched another movie called ‘The Father’ which was released last year and it was a good movie. It was also recently nominated at the Oscars for several categories. The story follows an aging man portrayed by Anthony Hopkins who must deal with his progressing memory loss. Olivia Colman starred as his daughter.
The film’s portrayal of dementia is very emphathetic and it moved me a lot. I do felt the struggle and pain of the aged father who had to deal with this illness while watching the story develops. Both Anthony and Olivia delivered excellent performances in here and made the movie so heartfelt and moving. It’s a small conventional story but is executed effectively. Out of 10 points, I rate ‘The Father’ 8.2.
(Images in this post are from various online sources)