Written: Sunday. August 24, 2020.
- This movie had the most opportunity to be great, but it sadly went the other way.
- they wanted to centralize where the monsters were located, so they made Monster Island, a place where all of the monsters co-existed with one another as if they were literally at peace with one another (this disregards the whole lore of these movies. Monsters are bound to be territorial of their homes. So one island is not enough for all these big boys).
- Nothing New.
- They utilized elements from the previous movie (Invasion of Astro-Monster & Son of Godzilla), and created a shit-show of a movie-premise out of it. They could have easily furthered upon the weather device-plot that the Son of Godzilla's movie focused on. That could've been a way to put logic as to why the monsters are suddenly on this one island controlled by humans. But they disregard this as well, favoring a more Alien-caused plot, with the Kilaaks.
- The whole movie was boring as hell.
- The Kilaaks mind-controlled the Monsters, and have placed radio devices to send signals to the monsters whenever they're tasked on destroying different parts of the world. All of this could've been more interesting, if they actually gave a reason as to why they wanted to invade the Earth. Or in their own words, "Align themselves with the Humans, if they comply correctly to their demands."
- the Xiliens from Invasion of Astro-Monster were compelling, cause their goal was clear: they wanted Earth's resources, which is why they want to invade. And they used Ghidorah creatively, by pretending that he was a common enemy of the humans and the aliens, so that they could infiltrate humanity as smoothly as they can.
- the Kilaaks, on the other hand, just straight-up comes out of nowhere and starts mind-controlling the monsters to destroy different cities in the world (except Tokyo! Because...uh...I dunno. They never said why).
- and why did the Kilaaks want to live in a world they couldn't survive on? They literally turned back to their true worm-like forms once their atmosphere was broken. Like, why the fuck invade in the first place? Go somewhere else where you could actually survive on.
- Plot-driven, and no care for characters, both human and monster.
- They had humans, and they had monsters, and they had aliens, and they had other unknown monsters.
- they didn't care about the human characters, because it was all focused on the plot of letting the monsters lose, revealing that some humans were being mind-controlled by the aliens; humans we don't develop sympathy towards, cause they don't spend time doing that sort of thing here. They just put them from point A to point B, and then C, then D, then back to B, or C, or A--the whole movie, without there being any significant character moments.
- Can you, right now, tell me every single monster who was shown in this movie, and tell me what their unique abilities are, and how they're actually relevant to the plot? You can't? I wonder why?
- Fuck these boring Kilaaks aliens.
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