This forces Mark to rejoin Monarch, an outfit populated by a host of recognizable faces-Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Thomas Middleditch, O’Shea Jackson, David Strathairn, Zhang Ziyi and Bradley Whitford-whose function is to either spout exposition or to make funny quips about the ongoing madness. No sooner has that victory taken place than Emma and Madison are kidnapped by Colonel Jonah Alan (Charles Dance), a rogue “eco-terrorist” who covets the Orca. And, with her daughter Madison ( Millie Bobby Brown) by her side, she then makes friends with the giant insect. Emma Russell ( Vera Farmiga) has developed a device known as the “Orca” which allows communication with titans via their “biofrequency.” With her ex-husband Mark ( Kyle Chandler) having abandoned his Monarch work-and their marriage-following the death of their son during Godzilla’s previous San Francisco rampage, Emma uses the Orca to awaken Mothra. This argument is more or less irrelevant, however, because Monarch’s Dr. Set five years after Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla (with Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Navy snooze thankfully nowhere in sight), Michael Dougherty’s sequel finds Monarch, an organization dedicated to locating and handling the world’s growing population of “titans,” sparring with Congress over how best to handle the threat posed by the beasts. Which is good, because there’s considerable large-scale carnage-and very little logic-to be found in this big, dumb and only sporadically fun monster mash. One goes to see Godzilla: King of the Monsters for the enormous supernatural creatures destroying cities and each other, not for nuanced drama and characterizations.
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