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The MonsterVerse of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. goes on and the King of the Monsters is back with exactly that movie title. We had to wait five years for the continuation of the first Godzilla movie, although we also got to see King Kong in the meantime. Both belong to the movie franchise that started in 2014 and will probably end (?) with a mega confrontation in Godzilla vs Kong next year, in 2020.

But before Godzilla can fight his upcoming final battle, he must defeat King Ghidorah.

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The Story:

After Godzilla had saved the world against the two monsters named Muto five years ago and disappeared in the open sea, a lot has happened. In the meantime, the organization Monarch has found countless more monsters all over the world, which they call Titans and which are all still in hibernation. Various crypto-zoological scientists of the organization monitor and try to study these Titans. Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and Dr. Vivienne Graham are trying to convince the US politicians that the monsters are not a danger, although the politicians have long ago decided to bring Monarch and their research under command and wipe out all the monsters.

Along the way while Dr. Emma Russell is examining the monster Mothra in a secret base, she and her daughter Madison is kidnapped by eco-terrorists and taken to the Antarctic to wake up the zero monster Ghidora. Monarch is informed of the events and recruits Dr. Emma Russell's husband to help with the search and rescue them. But when they find her it is already late and nothing seems to be what it looked like...

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My Opinion:

After Roland Emmerich's strange Godzilla interpretation was a giant fail, Godzilla from the cooperation between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros was again the monster everyone loved. As a huge fan of Godzilla I had already celebrated the first film and waited with full suspense for the second part. Although the first movie had offered too less Godzilla and even less monster fights, the second movie makes up for that. Where the first film still put the people in the foreground, the second film does it with the monsters. The creators seem to have learned from their mistakes, and that's great, because we get a monster movie how it must be!

The human figures in the movie are still mostly involved in what's happening, but the focus of the whole film lies on the monsters. Sure, there are many well-known faces like Millie Bobby Brown from the Netflix series Stranger Things, Vera Farmiga from Bates Motel and the Conjouring movies, or Charles Dance from Game of Thrones, but their roles and the whole story of the movie are only secondary, so that the movie can at least offer some story.

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If I'm honest, the movie doesn't really need a story, because it's not about what people offer for a drama, but about Godzilla, the monsters and the awesome fights between them! And that's exactly what you'd expect from a monster film!

You can really tell that the Visual Effects artist had a lot of fun at his work, because the monsters are absolutely well designed, the effects are really convincing and almost look like real and the whole movie is like a huge firework of effects! There aren't many movies where the effects are as good as like in this one! The bluish look, which sometimes changes its color with the monsters or when the movie switches to the people and takes on the usual colors again, is also very well implemented and goes seamlessly over and gives the movie its own epic touch in which the monsters show their epic fights!

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a monster action blockbuster as it must be - monsters that are unpredictable, trample down and destroying everything, and fighting each other! And this without consideration for the puny people, who are actually meaningless anyway. The movie is an absolutely successful monster masterpiece that makes the hearts of the fans beat faster and in which we can see Godzilla in full glory.

As the former king of King's Landing Charles Dance from Game of Thrones says: Long live the King!

The film got 7 stars at IMDb from me, if I could, I would give it a rating of 7.4.

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