Godzilla vs Kong 4K 2021 Ultra HD 2160p

It was high time for Godzilla and Kong to collide in a great battle and destroy a couple of cities. And the fact that such a monstrous story was entrusted to Adam Wingard, a well-known horror maker in narrow circles, is a wonderful sign. In his films, one can see not only the author's ability to work with practical and computer effects, but also the talent to create harmony from the opposition of something gigantic, overwhelming and small - for example, an ordinary person. If "Godzilla vs. Kong" is at least ideologically consistent with his past works, the film will definitely succeed.

Godzilla vs Kong 4K Review
Godzilla unexpectedly attacks the base of the mega-corporation "Apex" and becomes the number one target: if a monster can attack a harmless research center, then in order to avoid even more dire consequences, it is necessary to eliminate the threat. True, you can't just get rid of the lizard. A wedge is knocked out with a wedge, and a monster by a monster, although it is not Kong who will have to fight Godzilla. He is only a conductor for scientists in the hollow earth, the place from which all the titans came and which contains a source of energy with which you can defeat the tailed enemy. Together with him, the unfortunate explorer Nathan Lead (Alexander Skarsgard), Dr. Ilen Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and many other homo sapiens, needed in this movie only for conditional drama, are sent to the bowels of the planet.

In a pandemic era, it's easy to miss big studio projects. The last time the really weighty excuse to get out to the theaters was Nolan's "Argument", but, we recall, it came out in the fall. Snyderkat, alas, did not make it to the halls, the sequel "Wonder Woman" lost all the fervor of the original, "Mulan" is a disaster, "Treads of Chaos" is a non-ambitious teenage fantasy. If the cinema lacked something this year, it was not a new film language and experiments, but a film where a giant gorilla fights a prehistoric lizard. Moreover, it is so stupid and devoid of a sense of proportion that it describes both the past 2020 and the beginning of 2021.

Formally, in "Godzilla v. Kong" there is a conflict, and even some kind of environmental problem (in the finale, for example, two monsters have to unite and fight with a mechanical Godzilla, personifying human intervention in nature), but when three furious action takes place through the whole film, scenes, I don't want to think about anything else. Even people here are variable and not very necessary. While Skarsgård and Andrews help Kong get home, a podcaster played by Brian Tyree Henry, Millie's character Bobby Brown, and her friend Josh (Julian Dennison) expose the giant corporation. Both the first and the second are useful only as translators of information: neither Kong nor Godzilla, alas, can speak yet, so only useless boring people can explain to the viewer what is happening now.

But when they disappear, Wingard's cinema turns into one of the most spectacular blockbusters of the year so far. Kong fights Godzilla in the middle of the ocean, in the next action scene he cuts the lizard with a giant ax found in the hollow earth, and a few minutes later they attack the evil robot together. The description, in fact, is completely consistent with the action itself: this movie is as if written and filmed by a child fan who was allowed to make his wildest dreams come true on screen. High-tech computers here are incapacitated by a spilled glass of water, and in the depths of the planet lies another world with monsters - the weirder and stupider the better.

Had this movie been in the hands of an ordinary studio artisan, it seems that such adorable childish magic would not have come out. But Adam Wingard - a great connoisseur of the genre of fantasy and horror - perfectly understands how much the audience is not interested in looking at people and how much they want a simple refined action madness. The monsters and killers in his films have always been more constructs, creative units that can be played like little plastic toy soldiers. So Godzilla and Kong with him, bypassing the established pop-cultural ideas about nature and politics, become just two giant monsters whose paws itch, ahem. This method can be criticized for a long time, but the fact that one two-hour film was more fun than any previous tape in the franchise seems to say a lot.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Korean, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish.