![]() ![]() In one, Ziyi Zhang – in a welcome return to western blockbusters because she knows how to present the spectacular with poise – explains to Kyle Chandler’s Dr Mark Russell that slaying dragons is a western concept, while in the east they are seen as messianic. Not many mind – at one point Ken Watanabe says “There’s no time for debate,” which is actually the one time in the film I would have killed for one – but sometimes it manages to take a moment to provide us with a slow moment of terribly written dialogue. There are moments when the film almost dares to pause and think. Yet it’s a movie based on characters who made it through the conflict of the first film, but even their PTSD is unclear: do they love Godzilla? Fear him? Hate him? Everyone seems to just change their opinion on him depending on what the movie requires. But we are never left with any idea of the damage being done by the monsters that roam throughout this movie: we do not see if the few civilians given screen time are saved or killed, or what impact battles have on those who survive. ![]() It pays lip service to the idea of consequence the way all epic cinema does in the post- Avengers age: it suggests all extras in its decimated townscapes are “evacuated” though never really lingers on how. This is because in King Of The Monsters – part of a series literally built on exploring the consequences of human power-lust through the heightened lens of science fiction – there are absolutely no consequences to anything. ![]()
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