Director Adam Wingard knowingly appreciates that monster clashes aren't enthralling or even visually impressive if the audience can't spectate the fighting without a certain clarity level. Consequently, he ensures that Godzilla vs Kong has some first-rate technical components such as squeaky-clean imagery, comprehensive CGI effects and an extravagantly layered sound design. 

The story continues three years after Michael Dougherty's abysmally directed Godzilla: King of the Monsters with Wingard proudly demonstrates his films excessiveness and absurdities from the very beginning. The narrative nonsense concerns a "Hollow Earth" concept that increasingly takes on Henry Levin's Journey to the Center of the Earth complexions. Nevertheless, its ludicrous plot is only in attendance to shine a light on the striking omission of MC Michael Buffer thunderously delivering his trademarked catchphrase: "Let's get ready to rumble!" 

Wingard's snatching of the director's chair for this fourth film in the MonsterVerse franchise sees him doubling down on his instalment being a single-minded popcorn movie as he brings the titans' battles to life. Preceded by Gareth Edwards' Godzilla and Jordan Vogt-Roberts' Kong: Skull Island (ing Dougherty's feeble effort), Wingard accentuates the thrills of the film and, notably, doesn't allow it to take itself seriously. He understands that it offers little more than monster mayhem enshrouded within a film with an overarching storyline that is little more than expository clutter.  

As computer-generated images are the main stars, the film focuses more on the monsters than the humans, with Kong and Godzilla's characters represented in reasonable detail, down to the realistic-looking fur across Kong's body. There's diligence given to the films set pieces, and while there's a clash at sea between the two leads, he saves the best for an almost twenty-minute unrestrained battle at the end set in a beautiful neon-lit city. 

Amusingly, the weather effects become allocated more characterisation than the humans, who are mediocre at best. Nevertheless, while the cast dutifully serve their respective minor roles, the narrative struggles to give them anything remotely interesting to do. This situation has been an evident and ongoing problem for the franchise; still, Wingard understands what the fans and audiences want in a film titled Godzilla vs Kong, and in that regard, he delivers.

It's chaotic, mindless and utterly nonsensical, as well as being outrageously over-the-top with its battle sequences; however, despite its very noticeable and multiple problems, the film has some extraordinary visual moments. Wingard understands that the whole venture is exceptionally ridiculous and that knowledge liberates him into creating an intermittently entertaining gigantic and noisy blockbuster.