General Thoughts:
The plot is barely hanging on by a thread and I'm left asking too many questions about what's happening on screen to really enjoy what's happening. The movie comes up with convoluted ways to get its creatures into crazy set pieces ( HOW is there a SUN in "hollow earth" ) but does not give its monsters enough to do in them.
The Good:
The fights are pretty good, while generic. I did not feel like I was seeing anything that hadn't already been done from a kaiju-esque combat scene, but the computer generated monsters were beautiful and I'm sure someone worked very hard on animating Kong and Godzilla.
The Bad:
Milly Bobby Brown, Julian Dennison, and nearly all of the human characters were left with nothing to really do to embrace their acting chops, with a shout out to Demian Bichir, who I felt pulled off the bad-guy pretty well. Blink and you'll miss Lance Reddick. The film would have been better off cutting out 60% of the human interaction and pumping the movie full of monster combat - which is after all the main draw of the film.
The plot is barely hanging on by a thread and I'm left asking too many questions about what's happening on screen to really enjoy what's happening. The movie comes up with convoluted ways to get its creatures into crazy set pieces ( HOW is there a SUN in "hollow earth" ) but does not give its monsters enough to do in them.
The Good:
The fights are pretty good, while generic. I did not feel like I was seeing anything that hadn't already been done from a kaiju-esque combat scene, but the computer generated monsters were beautiful and I'm sure someone worked very hard on animating Kong and Godzilla.
The Bad:
Milly Bobby Brown, Julian Dennison, and nearly all of the human characters were left with nothing to really do to embrace their acting chops, with a shout out to Demian Bichir, who I felt pulled off the bad-guy pretty well. Blink and you'll miss Lance Reddick. The film would have been better off cutting out 60% of the human interaction and pumping the movie full of monster combat - which is after all the main draw of the film.