Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) (Blu-ray)

Excellent film. Lots of fun.

Good action movie.

Movie came packaged well. Arrived on time.Absolutely awesome movie!! I was able to redeem the digital code, as well!

Is it Citizen Kane? No. But it is a fun movie. Godzilla's evolution fits into the world that has been created. Only complaint is it is a bit too Kong forward.

Adam Wingard’s 2024 film “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” is the fifth entry in Legendary Pictures’ Monsterverse franchise. It picks up following the events of Wingard’s 2021 film “Godzilla vs. Kong” in which Kong relocated to Hollow Earth while Godzilla patrols the surface world fending off various Titans. A signal begins emanating from Hollow Earth that leads Monarch scientist Dr. Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) to seek out Bernie Hayes for his input (Brian Tyree Henry). Along with Trapper (Dan Stevens) and Jia (Kaylee Hottle), they travel to Kong’s realm to investigate. There, they find the Iwi, a group similar to Jia’s people from Skull Island who have knowledge of a dangerous Titan named Skar King. Kong faces off against Skar King, but barely survives. A juvenile ape, Suko, helps Kong to navigate that world. Meanwhile, Godzilla fights off Tiamat and begins accumulating new power to fortify himself. The Monarch group must help Kong to recruit Godzilla in order to fight Skar King and Shimo, a beast that has radioactive ice breath and previously caused an ice age fighting members of Godzilla’s species. The only way to make peace between Godzilla and Kong is for Jia to help summon Mothra as only a person from Skull Island can connect with Mothra. All of this culminates in a big monster battle between Skar King’s loyal apes and the Godzilla and Kong alliance.The film is fun for fans of the Monsterverse and spends a great deal of time exploring Hollow Earth and Kong’s perspective. Wingard does an admirable job dramatizing scenes of the various Titans without any dialogue, but still creating a visual narrative where the audience can understand each creature’s motivations. Each film in the Monsterverse has a distinctive color palette and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” is no different. With each Titan glowing during their power-ups and Wingard using particularly vibrant colors for Hollow Earth, the film pops and visually draws the viewer into the story. The neon aesthetic and font for the film’s logo resembles the ’80s references found in so many current film properties like “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Stranger Things, “Ready Player One,” and more. Where Toho’s current Godzilla films – “Shin Godzilla” and “Godzilla Minus One” – have more of a grounded feel despite the presence of kaiju, the Monsterverse has embraced a heightened or fantastical tone beginning with its second film. The color saturation that cinematographer Ben Seresin uses helps to further differentiate Toho and Legendary’s Godzilla franchises. Bonus features on this Blu-ray include commentaries, vignettes looking into the various Titans, and behind-the-scenes featurettes. Fans of this series will enjoy further exploring the world of the Monsterverse.

I love Godzilla and King Kong movies and this movie is Awesome. I really love this version of Godzilla and Kong.

Good movie at a reasonable price, well packaged, arrived sooner than expected

For those who grew up like me watching the classic TOHO Godzilla movie of the 60's and 70's over all this film will deliver! I really enjoyed GVK which was my introduction into the monster verse movies, but GXK for me really won me over out of all of them seeing it for the second time in the comfort of my own home.What I love most about this movie is the breathe taking environments in the Hollow Earth, but even on earth all the different locations you see are fun to see, and especially where Godzilla shows up of all places, and oh eventually when him and Kong meet! It's really on such a grand scale!The movie couldn't look better! The creatures are no doubt the lead characters and what I ended up loving the most about the movie is how its mainly Kong's story, but it's also Gia's as much as it is his which story reflects one another that I liked about the movie. I mean you are going on an adventure with Kong along with the humans who have their role to play and, oh it has its moments!I would guess that a majority of customers are buying this film have seen it already back when it was in theaters and want to own the movie physically. I am one of them! I love the slip case and how it has a nice silver tint to it. The movie is so vivid in 4K and best of all it has all the special features one could ask for for this movie. My favorite as with many is the commentary and its always a great time when Adam Wingard does the commentary! I really enjoyed his commentary for GVK, and was so looking forward to hearing the commentary on this movie. You learn so much more about the movie from doing so!My monsterverse collection is now up to date and I am proud to own this movie now. I am all for the monsterverse and what's to come and as long as there is physical media more than likely I'm going to buy the movies on 4K because when it comes to movies like this one, nothing beats being able to hold and see that beautiful cover also knowing that you can see it any time. You will get a digital code to watch it from wherever too so you can't go wrong still when you buy a physical copy.