These two form what passes for an emotional core in this movie Jia, in particular, fulfills the old trope of the singular human female with which the giant ape forms a bond (though the movie never fully explains how that bond was formed, or why a little girl is given free reign to wander around this research facility and pal around with a dangerous monster). Hall plays a scientist in charge of studying King Kong, with Kaylee Hottle's mute orphan girl Jia at her side. But those actors are given nothing intelligent to work with, and the film spirals into head-scratching gobbledigook any time they're onscreen. It's populated by talented, well-liked actors, like Kyle Chandler and Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown (reprising their roles from 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters), as well as Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Lance Reddick, Hunt for the Wilderpeople's Julian Dennison, and more.

Kong suffers from the same core issue as so many other wayward kaiju films: The human side of the story verges on nonsense. On the other hand, if you're also expecting a halfway-intelligent script or a set of human characters who act like thinking beings with discernible motivations beyond 'be in X spot so Y plot event can occur,' you'll be massively disappointed. Kong delivers: The titular monsters battle spectacularly across sea and land, and if that's all you're hoping for when you press play on HBO Max or (gasp) head to the theater, your appetite will likely be sated. Kong' is that you will witness a large ape and a large lizard fighting each other, and the poster tagline 'One will fall' implies that fight might even be to the death. The promise inherent to the movie title 'Godzilla vs.

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