Ok, what did we already know?

Godzilla is living under the ocean somewhere in some sort of hibernation since 2014 when Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen survived his invasion. Since then we’ve been to Skull Island with Bri Larson and Tom Hiddleston and met Kong.

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Time has passed and Vera Farmiga and Kyle Chandler are grieving their son after he died in the first Godzilla attack and by the by ended up working for Monarch, the organisation who protect the Titans. Farmiga’s character, Emma, has developed a piece of equipment

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to communicate with the Titans and in an attempt to control them decides that actually, the best thing to do is kill the human race. Similar to how Thanos wanted a perfect balance in Infinity War, Emma wanted to destroy the planet that evidently meant losing her only son.

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With the help of her daughter Madison, played by Millie Bobby Brown, she gets herself tangled up with the likes of Charles Dance and everything goes a bit squiffy.

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Whilst all of that’s happening ‘Zilla comes out of his long nap and ends up fighting against the Hydra-like monster in an attempt to keep his thrown as King of Monsters. With a few other mega-monsters, known as Titans, thrown in for good measure.

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There were so many elements of this film that I’m bound to forget but I found myself getting seriously invested to the point that I was jumping out of my skin and actually covering my eyes in parts. It was fun and exciting and the human characters didn’t steal the spotlight of what I wanted to see, the monsters!

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It was brilliantly directed…I’m being serious! The cinematography was really quite fantastic. A lot of it was shot from an almost POV aspect which worked really well, it felt like you were in there with all the action. I’d imagine it was really powerful in IMAX or ScreenX.

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The visual effects were also very nice, especially for Godzilla himself, they felt really clean and convincing. I often comment on the “weight” of CGI characters (and I can’t be bothered to explain what I mean by that right now) but the weight of the monsters was spot on.

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Ok, yes, the screenplay was patchy and at times incredibly cheesy ‘long live the king’ but it worked. But really, who even goes to films like this to appreciate the screenplay?

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They utilised a fantastic cast with a couple of surprises along the way and some great performances. Especially from Brown, she really has perfected the traumatised-teenager role.

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With subtle nods towards Godzilla vs. Kong (the next and I assume final instalment of this saga) I really enjoyed this blockbuster epic, it was fast paced, funny when it needed to be and generally very entertaining. I think the bad reviews are coming from people who were expecting more than a monster fighting monster film, because that’s exactly what it was and it was a great version of that.