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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review - What a monster mess! This blockbuster battle is disappointingly devoid of thrills.. I give it ONE STAR, writes BRIAN VINER


At the end of a week of football internationals, the nation's multiplexes welcome Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. This seems fitting, somehow.

What passes for a narrative has Kong lumbering around the primordial paradise known as Hollow Earth, which looks like it rose from Jurassic Park’s cutting-room floor, while Godzilla kicks off in the Eternal City, smashing what’s left of the Colosseum with one misplaced stamp of a great scaly foot. What passes for a narrative has Kong lumbering around the primordial paradise known as Hollow Earth, which looks like it rose from Jurassic Park’s cutting-room floor, while Godzilla kicks off in the Eternal City, smashing what’s left of the Colosseum with one misplaced stamp of a great scaly foot Meanwhile, Dr Ilene Andrews (Hall) and her two tiresome wisecracking pals, Trapper (Stevens) and Bernie (Brian Tyree Henry), gradually work out that her adopted daughter, Jia (Kaylee Hottle), is not just the only surviving member of the indigenous Iwi tribe from Skull Island, whence Kong originates; or the only human being who can converse with the big guy and stop him going ape.

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