Deathly dull (inbetween largely likewise fghts)

With a giant (variable) sized ape battling a giant (consistantly) sized radioactive monster, no-one was expecting Ken Loach to sign-up as director?
However, this movie may have just out-depressed Loach's own 'Ladybird, Ladybird' by it's inclusion of the singular most boring cast *AND* script ever assembled in a motion picture?
I'd like to think that Covid19 was the reason that the filmmakers were forced to go with *this* particular cast.....If I were a casting-agent, I'd social-distance myself from them too?
The (rampant) box-ticking was (in this day and age) a 'given'....but Christ-on-a-bike, these actors were boring, forced, unfunny and less realistic than the actual stars of the show.

Which brings me to the monsters:

Like it or not (and I'm sure this may make some people uncomfortable) but it's becoming increasingly clear of the racial 'agenda' the filmmakers are trying to foist upon 'Kong' (I half expected a scene involving Godzilla or even Mecha-Godzilla taking a knee to the Apes windpipe)

Matters aren't helped by (contrived) circumstances constantly giving Kong a helping-hand, when unbelievably (even for sci-fi) he would have been snuffed out (instantly) by his much larger radioactive foe?

Godzilla himself, is also sold-short, and made to look largely ineffective...leading to a series of sterile, repetitive, under-nourished fight scenes (that have long lost their 'Wow-Factor' over the years) 'Pacific Rim' being the benchmark, for (at very least) doing it better (and almost a decade earlier)

I wish they'd go back to using *Real* directors, that understand pacing, dialogue, cinematography and suspense....thus making the 'special effects' secondary to the actual plot (as it stands, the movie is largely 'directed' in accordance to whichever CGI 'programme' or 'package' was used?)

'Godzilla Vs Kong' is devoid of script, pacing, performances or even basic (generic) excitement. Which is a crying shame, because I love (old-school) 'Godzilla' and quite enjoyed both 'Kong - Skull Island' and 'Godzilla - King Of The Monsters'....However this movie does neither monster (and worst of all, it's audience) any favours.

Severely disappointed by a movie far more 'depressing' than the current pandemic it's meant to be escapism from?