Godzilla 2: King of Nonsense



I am not really especially a fan of monster movies ("Kaiju") but I have seen a Godzilla movie here and there and they are usually pretty pleasant, so I thought I'd watch this one for a bit of light relaxation. I will say, I didn't need my brain much, because if I had used it any more, it would have been even more irritating. The characters in this movie don't really act like real people so much as they act like cliche-fragments. All of the main ones them bounce around between a few archetypes like "hubristic scientist"/"overemotional parent" in ways that don't really come together at all but are really all about doing in the moment what the movie needs doing. It feels like the movie has been made by one of those artificial intelligence tweet-bots, all the elements are there, and they are in the right order too, but no new things enter the equation at any point, and the pieces don't really form a coherent whole. A lot of things happen that seem portentous and then have absolutely no consequences and are fully forgotten about. There seems to be a conflict between government and the Monarch organisation (the private, formerly secret monster-research-organisation), but that just vanishes about 25% into the film, and the two are virtually indistinguishable for the rest of the film.

The actors are all fine with what they are doing but most of the characters' actions are incredibly poorly motivated (I thought WHYYYY more than once) and equally poorly thought out. nobody seems to act out of anything else than very short-term instincts, and nothing anyone wants to do ever gets meaningfully stopped or questioned by anyone else, not in  any way that has any consequences.

The end does what it's supposed to do, and I'm not mad at it overall, but for the future, maybe they should look into investing in a script that contains people doing believable things.

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