The crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah.
After Mark Russell (Kyle Chandler) and Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) lose their young son from the deadly events of 2014’s “Godzilla,” they separate with Emma taking their daughter Madison with her. Both Mark and Emma worked for MONARCH, the company that studies and tracks down new species of what they call Titans, huge God-like monsters that once roamed the earth and over the years, have gradually begun appearing all across the globe. Mark now chooses to live in the wilderness, studying wildlife while Emma has continued to work for MONARCH and has constructed a device called “Orca,” a machine that can emit frequencies that only the Titans can understand.
After discovering a huge egg in China, it is moved to a remote MONARCH facility where it hatches and gives birth to a giant larva they call Mothra. When the facility is attacked by eco-terrorists led by Alan Jonah (Charles Dance), they kill everyone on site except for Emma and her daughter Madison and take them prisoner to another MONARCH facility in Antarctica. At this point, MONARCH reaches out to Emma’s estranged ex-husband Mark, who tells them that they need to kill all the Titans before they take over the planet as the dominant species. When he is informed that Emma and Madison have been taken, he agrees to accompany the rescue team to Antarctica, determined to retrieve his family.
Before they leave, they have an encounter with Godzilla and realize that he too is heading to Antarctica. Upon reaching the MONARCH outpost, Jonah’s team opens fire on them but they manage to make their way inside. Mark enters the facility practically undetected and when he comes upon Emma and Madison, he notices a gigantic Titan frozen in the ice called “Monster Zero.” Emma refuses to leave with him and blows up the ice, releasing Monster Zero. She and Madison escape with Jonah and his men while Mark and his team barely make it to the surface. As they try to escape, Monster Zero attacks them but not before Godzilla makes an appearance and the two Titans battle it out.
After Monster Zero flies away, Mark and the remainder of the MONARCH team escape and everyone questions why Emma seemingly blew up the ice of her own free will, releasing Monster Zero. Mark insists that Jonah made her do it by holding Madison captive but then Emma appears on their screens and informs them that it had been her plan all along to release the Titans, to bring a balance to the earth which she claims is dying as a result of climate change and overpopulation. When Madison hears this, she confronts her mother, stating that she thought she wanted to help the earth, not destroy it. Emma tells her that this is the only way. When they make it back to the US, Madison sneaks into the lab and steals the Orca and makes her way back to their hometown of Boston, determined to use the Orca to draw the attention of all the Titans to her location, hoping Godzilla will turn up and save the day.
After Monster Zero awakens every Titan that has been lying dormant for centuries, Emma quickly realizes that things are out of her control and this is not what she had planned. When she finds out that Madison has disappeared along with the Orca, she informs Mark. When Madison turns the Orca on, they are able to pinpoint her location and make their way to her and just as Monster Zero appears, Godzilla turns up and both Titans engage in a battle to the death, where only one can win!
“Godzilla: King of the Monsters” is pure, unadulterated fun, the type of movie you go to and switch off your brain and just enjoy. Too many critics have forgotten how to enjoy themselves and criticize films like this, calling them rubbish. You do not go into a movie like this expecting Oscar-caliber performances and deft direction, that would defeat the whole purpose of watching a big summer movie. This is all about special effects, gigantic monsters, and impossible scenarios that always have a way of working themselves out simply because it’s a big summer film. The cast is fine in their respective roles but we all know we’re not going to see this for the acting, just fill the screen with mayhem, destruction, and monsters galore and you will not disappoint. And “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” does not disappoint either. Now roll on 2020’s “Godzilla vs. Kong.”
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