Godzilla: King of the Monsters

critic Reviews

, 42% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters delivers spectacular kaiju action -- and reaffirms that cutting-edge effects are still no substitute for a good story.
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    Tim CogshellFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
    The sound effects in this movie are extraordinary. That roar that Godzilla does? I gotta tell you that I kind of love that. I might make it the dial tone on my phone.
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    Esther ZuckermanThrillist
    The cast is stacked with otherwise brilliant actors stuck in a borderline incomprehensible plot and forced to play second fiddle to monsters whose powers of wonder wear off fast.
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    Wenlei MaNews.com.au
    Sometimes you have to be honest about the movie you really are - smashy smash. If you can reconcile that, then it's not so awful.
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    Sara Michelle FettersMovieFreak.com
    I thoroughly enjoyed director Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It made me smile.
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    Udita JhunjhunwalaLivemint
    It's just a big-budget waste of resources that weakly attempts some eco-warrior gibberish and leans heavily on disaster movie clichés.
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    Linda MarricThe Jewish Chronicle
    Godzilla: King Of The Monsters presents such a preposterous and idiotic plot, that even those with expert knowledge of the franchise might find it impossible to follow.
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    Felix Vasquez Jr.Cinema Crazed
    Works on its own, and as a chapter in a larger movie universe that pays off quite well.
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    Cory WoodroofFor the Win (USA Today)
    The scope and melodramatics of this one meshed really well with the unfiltered desire to let these beasts go at it.
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    Josh LarsenLarsenOnFilm
    ...features far sludgier CGI than the two previous MonsterVerse installments.
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    Manuel São BentoMSB Reviews
    Dougherty had a gorgeous diamond that he just needed to polish with a rational, simplistic story, like it was a soft, clean cloth. Instead, he used a hammer…
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