I didn't like this, unfortunately (spoilers)

Bear in mind, I enjoyed Gareth Edwards 'Godzilla'. The pace was slow and deliberate, and it really conveyed the huge scale of the monsters and the destruction they caused. The film gave you goosebumps the first time Godzilla roared and used his atomic breath.

By contrast, I hated 'Kong: Skull Island'. I'll never forget that ridiculous sequence where Tom Hiddleston, wearing a gas mask, runs through a bright green fog, chopping up little pterodactyls with a samurai sword in slow-motion.

'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' falls somewhere in between those two films. The monsters look cool (Mothra and King Ghidorah are the highlights), the mythology is interesting and the villains were surprisingly sympathetic. The concept of Monarch, a globe-trotting secret society of military scientist / archaeologists with all kinds of cool gadgets, is great.

However, the longer the film goes on, the more you notice how the narrative is rushed and messy, the impressive cast is given little to do (particularly Charles Dance and Sally Hawkins), the action scenes are semi-obscured by a smokey haze and confusingly shot, and it doesn't have an ending ... it just stops once King Ghidorah is destroyed.

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