J Bone

This film manages to balance maybe 30 minutes of admittingly enjoyable kaiju action with and hour and a half of cringe worthy cliches. From the misguided do holder accidentally unleashing human extermination b to the roguish scientist proving himself superior in strategy and critical thinking than a largely inept military, to the petulant child helping to save the day through misbehavior, King of the Monsters buries anything enjoyable under Kong sized pile of ho hum. This movie lacks any of the fun from the more cheesy Japanese entries and makes only passing attempts at using kaiju as an allegory for nature's response to human hubris in favor of another predictable broken man's redemption story.