Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

"Rise together or fall alone."

2024 1h 55m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 4,897🥫54%Rotten Tomatoes●47Metacritic★6IMDB · 138,639

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Synopsis

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Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.

“Rise together or fall alone.”

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Cast

Rebecca Hall
Ilene Andrews
Brian Tyree Henry
Bernie Hayes
Dan Stevens
Trapper
Kaylee Hottle
Jia
Alex Ferns
Mikael
Fala Chen
Iwi Queen
Rachel House
Hampton
Ron Smyck
Harris

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Adam Wingard
Writers: Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 3.8× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Godzilla x Kong Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Adam Wingard, shot by Ben Seresin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Tom Holkenborg. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Josh Schaeffer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry and Dan Stevens carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Adam Wingard directs. Ben Seresin behind the camera. Tom Holkenborg scores. Josh Schaeffer cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.8× over at the box office.
3Released 2 years ago.
4Part of the "Godzilla x Kong Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Adam Wingard, shot by Ben Seresin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Tom Holkenborg. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Josh Schaeffer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry and Dan Stevens carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Rise together or fall alone.".
10IMDB entry: tt14539740 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 11 themes, including "giant monster", "sequel", "dinosaur", "monkey".
12Released under 26 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ben Seresin
Original score: Tom Holkenborg
Editing: Josh Schaeffer
Production design: Tom Hammock
Costume design: Emily Seresin
Makeup / hair: Sabrina Wilson
VFX supervisor: Alessandro Ongaro
Sound: Erik Aadahl
Stunt coordinator: Kyle Gardiner
Runtime: 115 min · 1h 55m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $150,000,000
Box office: $571,750,016
Return: 381% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Rotten Tomatoes: 54% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 47/100
IMDB rating: 6/10 · 138,639 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

4 wins & 6 nominations total

Part of

Godzilla x Kong Collection

A collection of Godzilla/Kong crossover MonsterVerse movies.

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Adam Wingard

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Manuel São Bento2024-03-28
★ 7/10
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-review/ "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a “more” version of the previous installment. More Hollow Earth, more Titans, more gloriously giant fights filled with fantastic visual effects… and much more nonsense too. Through an openly absurd narrative, Adam Wingard takes the charm and chemistry of his cast to help focus the film’s main spotlight on the titanic protagonists, Godzilla and Kong, delivering two hours of pure, unadulterated entertainment. It won’t convert the most skeptical, but it will certainly solidify the unashamed passion of MonsterVerse fans." Rating: B
NghiaLuong2024-04-02
This is a good movie about the science fiction genre, the scenes are very vivid and have really quality frames to send to viewers. I was very impressed with the screenplay and I'm about to watch the movie one more time.
CinemaSerf2024-04-04
★ 6/10
It has to get at least three stars because it's got Dan Stevens (and his piercing eyes) in it. Otherwise, this is an entirely derivative and predictable effort that leaves nothing at all to our imagination. A truce has broken out since the last time (2021), with "Kong" ruling the roost deep in "Hollow Earth"; "Godzilla" curled up asleep in the Coliseum and "Ilene" (Rebecca Hall) and the troubled "Jia" (Kaylee Hottle) keeping an eye on things for "Monarch" and mankind. "Kong" has a bad tooth so he comes to the humans for help. Fortunately, "Trapper" (the aforementioned DS) is a dab hand at grand-scale dentistry but it's while the ape is topside that alarm bells go off. "Godzilla" starts marauding again and an undiscovered vortex in the nether world requires investigation by "Kong" and his human pals. With "Bernie" (Brian Tyree Henry) back in the gang, off they all go to discover that a new menace has arrived, destroyed their monitoring outpost and it is now setting up a battle royal with just about every Titan left on Earth - above or below. Adam Winyard does just about everything on this film, and that shows in a complete lack of objectivity when evaluating this third rate adventure, the banal writing and equally lacklustre acting. It's as plain as the nose on your face why "Godzilla' - who doesn't feature so much in this - is collecting energy, and when we do eventually get to them, the combat scenes are repetitive and too tightly choreographed. The scale is all over the place too. At times "Kong" appears the size of an house, at others he's more like a mouse. The visual effects are put to good use, but Hall just underwhelms, Henry talks way too much and Stevens' busky humour just doesn't hit home at all. I know it's difficult to keep coming up with new ideas for this genre and it must be difficult for the actors to constantly engage with nothing but some greenscreen, but the story is thin and the film reminds you of just about everything from "Jurassic Park" to episodes of "Stargate". It does need a big screen, though. On television it will be even more forgettable - but I did like the moth.