Godzilla x Kong is simultaneously superficial and convoluted. Its sole purpose is monster fights, amounting to drawn-out buildup to a desensitizing climax. The dialogue is an endless parade of forced exposition dumps. There's no character development, consequences, personal stakes, originality, surprises, logic, or motivation. Significant time is spent on superfluous plot devices. Thus, the script is an emotionless flatline. In fact, its disregard, inconsistencies, contrivances, and aimless bloat become quite frustrating. Plus, the acting can't help but be flat, stilted, and tensionless. Ultimately, Godzilla x Kong is transparently hollow, offering nothing but a headache.
Technically, Godzilla x Kong is a mess. Its direction is muddled, farcical, sanitized, cliche, bland, exhausting, and soulless. The imagery uses movement, brief lighting, no scale, no geography, no composition, and basic framing. Its editing has excessive action, rushed pacing, clumsy structure, and no momentum. The sound adds genre elements, muffling, smash cuts, emphasis, and a noisy finale. Its music is generic. The production design is forgettable, overdesigned, unrelatable, and corporate. Its cast possesses slim fame, arbitrary fit, and no purpose. The CGI is overdone, glossy, and uncanny, devolving into disengaging weightlessness. Overall, Godzilla x Kong is incompetent.
Writing: 1/10
Direction: 1/10
Cinematography: 4/10
Acting: 3/10
Editing: 3/10
Sound: 7/10
Score/Soundtrack: 4/10
Production Design: 4/10
Casting: 3/10
Effects: 4/10
Overall Score: 3.4/10
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